Tiger Raider

     A while ago I decided I was going to try to paint a tiger stripe gun.  My first thought was i would paint a gun all orange and then use tape to outline places to then paint black.  The problem with this, is it takes FOREVER, and uses lots of tape.  I gave up on the idea, thinking it would just take up a lot of time and not turn out well.  A week later I was painting a gun for a friend, when I use spray paint on a gun I put cardboard underneath it.  I had put a piece of tape on the cardboard earlier and forgotten it was there.   The paint covered the tape and the cardboard around it, when I removed the tape it left  a perfect stripe on the cardboard.  

     I ran into my room and grabbed a scissors and tape, I cut pieces of painters tape so the ends of the tap was pointed, and then put them on a gun I had painted all black.  I ran back outside and spray painted the entire gun orange.   A day later the gun was fully dry.  The only way I can compare how I felt pulling the tape off and seeing how amazing the gun had turned out, is saying it was like a 5 year old opening his last Christmas present to reveal an x-box.   Click here to see finished gun.  I wasn't the only one who loved this gun because it ended up selling for $70, considering I bought the gun for $4 and tape and paint only cost around $10 this gun was a huge success and I'm really glad I didn't give up painting it the first time.