 Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we're going to paint an AK. So this is actually my first AK rifle, I just bought this semi-recently here and we're going to paint it because I like painting guns, it's a lot of fun, I'm always curious about what kind of patterns you come out with and I don't know, but black can just kind of be boring sometimes. So for painting this gun, what we're going to do is I'm going to tape up where the bolt rides here, I'll tape up kind of this open area here that the safety covers and just close the safety, probably shouldn't get paint on the inside, but it's an AK, it'll run no matter what, right? So I'm going to try to avoid that, other than that I'll take the optic off just because I'm not ready to paint that yet, I'll take the sling off and I think that's about it, I'll leave the mag in and oh, I'll tape the muzzle off and the area to protect the threads here and just so I can put a new device on, and then the front sight and the rear sight, other than that I'm just going to paint it, I've watched a couple other videos that try to get an idea of how to do this and some people take things apart and take the trigger groups out and do all these complicated things and paint it in pieces, I'm not down for any of that, so again just going to tape off some key areas and then I'm going to roll with it, that's kind of my general plan, one of the reasons I like painting is because you can kind of experiment and it's pretty hard to screw up camel painting a gun, so that's a lot of fun. With this particular gun what we're going to try today is we're going to base coat it maybe in like a light green or a light tan or something like that and then we are going to try to use some striping and some sponging, I want to try to a little sponge pattern, so I'm going to find an old sponge around here and we'll spray some paint, I'll get some paint in the sponge and we'll kind of dab it, so again base coat I'll stripe it in something and then maybe I'm going to hit it with some some sponging, that's kind of my general plan, so we'll see how it turns out, I expect this one to take, I'll probably get it done within the course of today, I guess I'm curious how long I'm going to wait between coats to let it let it dry or not dry but I might give it a base coat wait 24 hours and then do the striping and sponging or I might just base coat it and then later today like in four or five six hours something like that just give it a striping and sponging, so we'll just kind of see it all depends on what mood I'm in to, so that's it this is the 8K now take your last look at it because next time you see it it will be all fancified. Okay so painted over the serial number here or taped over the serial number here taped over kind of the rear sight, this is the best we're going to get we'll just roll with it, the front sight the muzzle and then the bolt, bolt carrier group there and I kind of have some tape running inside the charging handle or the charge the safety so hopefully that will prevent problems we'll find out but that's it we'll give it a base coat and we'll see where we go from there okay so for a base coat I'm gonna go with this kind of light earth tone tan thing first okay so we will give that a couple hours or something like that and then we'll come back and try to hit the sponge okay so I was not planning on giving this a clear coat however that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna give it a clear coat I was looking at it here I'm really liking how this thing is turning out so I'm gonna hit it with a clear coat here and I think I think one this is kind of experiment to see how it goes so here we go I'm curious to see how this dries because right now it's got a sheen to it but I'm assuming that's just cuz it's wet I've never done a clear coat before so we'll see as it dries how that turns out so I'm just gonna hit it with just one coat here let it dry and we'll experiment see how that turns out because obviously I don't want to sheen on my camouflaged gun that would entirely defeat the point so here it is I'm really happy with how this thing turned out I really like this I also like that that coat of clear coat that I put on at the end really helped the texture a lot it doesn't feel gritty usually the paint can feel gritty this has probably been drying after a clear coat for an hour or two nothing nothing super long but even right now I like the texture a lot it feels pretty smooth it feels uniform it doesn't feel rough it doesn't feel like anything's gonna I'm gonna get dry chalk where it's doing my hands I'm still trying not to handle it too much here I'm gonna let it sit overnight to really solidify but I am really liking how that sponge turned out I'm just really enjoying how the coloring and the texture turned out so that's that's it I'll run it we'll see how well it holds up with the clear coat and I like I like paint guns you send me your gun no I'll paint it it'll be lots of fun so I think that's all I got get out there if you're wondering paint your gun try the sponge try a clear coat you know experiment it's always fun to see how it turns out until then do brave deeds and endure