98 Project

So through a series of event i ended up with a nasty beat up old ebolt 98, and with it decided to remove the paint via sandblaster, and grind off the lettering.

Heres a pic of what it was before I did anything.

The paint is spraypaint over what was a crappy paintjob, and the spraypaint is starting to peel off. The inside of the reciever halves was also covered in goo. But i already cleaned it off so no pics of that.

Now I've finally finished grinding off the lettering with a dremel and a rotozip.

There's still a few dimples that I need to fix but that'll come soon.

After I get it sandblasted I'l post more pics, but after that i'm still not totally sure what route I should take to painting it. Oldpbnoob mentioned that it might be worthwhile to not paint it and just polish it.

Any help or ideas for painting is appreciated.

EDIT: Fixed the dimples moslty.

If you have access to your own sand blaster, it probably will do a better job, but if not, stripper is probably cheaper and will do a good job. The money you save on getting it sandblasted, you can put towards getting it powdercoated or duracoated.

I am not sure what HA is saying, but it may have to do with what media you use to sandblast. If you are doing it yourself, you may have to watch for using too hard of media and pitting the body. If you are sending it out to have professionally done, they should know what to use. I THINK for different metals, they use different media;I.e silica vs walnut shells.