When markers and spraypaint meet!

[EyeFellOva]

So having recently bought this very nice 06 Ego from Mr Lump, I decided to remove the awful yellow paint that someone (who shall remain nameless... because I don't know his name!) used to change the colour of the Eye covers, Feedneck, and Oops.

Here are the pics of the marker before I started:
Right Side
Left Side

The first thing I did was strip the majority of the paint off using the polishing wheel that came with my Dremel. This took a while, but it needed doing so I could get the harder top coat of paint off. Here's a pic:

Stripped parts

After that (and this is the long and arduous task) I used a cloth (not a dish cloth, more like a thick duster) and some white spirit to clean the rest of the paint off. As I said, this took ages, about 3 and a half hours to be more precise. It's not perfect, there is still some paint left on the parts and I couldn't get paint out of the awkward nooks and crannies, and the anno has worn in some places. But you have to admit, it looks soooo much better! Pics:

Cleaned parts
Back to normal left
Back to normal right

So anyone that decided that this is a good idea... it's not! Either buy a CCU kit or get it re-anno'd... please... for the love of all things paintball!

 

[konastab01]

Hey mate the pics dont work

 

[EyeFellOva]

They all work fine for me

 

[Jon S]

Work fine, and that's some good work there mate, dont know how it is in person but from those photos its hard to tell anything was ever amiss.

Personally I would've considered keeping it with the paint, if just for the attention it would draw. Negative and most probably mocking attention, but attention none the less

 

[EyeFellOva]

I couldn't face the rejection mate

It looks good in person, but you can still see a few hints of the yellow, nothing I can really do about that apart from re-anno

 

[konastab01]

They work now that weird
You should have tryed some nitromors,I use it a lot and its good for taking paint off of alu.Maybe wouldnt have took you as long.
But hey It looks a million times better now thought

 

[Dskize]

nah ..i liked the 'traffic warden' look ... very original

 

[EyeFellOva]

They work now that weird
You should have tryed some nitromors

Didn't have any to hand (does anyone? ) and I had white spirit in the house. If I'd had more time (and money) I would've gone out for some more potent stuff but as I'm buying a new CCU kit in the not too distant future I couldn't justify spending too much on it

I thought about keeping the "traffic warden" look, but thought that I might attract bees the next time I play

 

[Lump]

good work dude but just could not be assed.did you sort the leak ?

 

[EyeFellOva]

It's the solenoid that's leaking from the hole in the back, think it's nackered! Do you know where the warranty card is for it mate? Or when it was purchased? I think the solenoid might be faulty in it's own, rather than someone doing something silly