Guinness Weathering Guide Comments

QUOTE (elelkho @ June 10, 2008 04:23 pm)

ung linseed oil nlng ang prob ko. wla ako mkita. ung Oil Wood Stain yan ba ang linseed oil?

komrad punta ka sa mga national bookstore dey are selling linseed oil there

ahhh cge try ko sa national bukstor bukas... any idea mgkano ang price?

QUOTE (elelkho @ June 10, 2008 08:19 pm)

ahhh cge try ko sa national bukstor bukas... any idea mgkano ang price?

check mo nalang komrad tagal na kasi di ako gumagamit ng linseed oil.. dati around 200 per bottle .. wayback 2003 pa , iwan ko kung magkano na ngayon... check mo nlang

QUOTE (zenTaurus @ June 10, 2008 09:37 am)

CORRECTION!!!

contrary to what i sed earlier, THERE ARE steel wool grades. verified this last friday at Ace Hardware in Makati.

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the ultra fine works best on painted parts, IMHO -- konting haplos lang, aus na. the fine is a bit too rough for my taste. and you have to be very careful not to rub it over the surface too long or too hard.

apologies to komrad LS and to all komrads reading this thread: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa filakairsoft/oops0000.gif

i would imagine, kom LS, that there would be, somewhere out there, an rs AK with different colored parts. but haven't seen a pic of one, yet

Thanks for the heads up komrad zT. Yup the penguin brand has the same quality as that one with the yellow packaging. Too rough for my tastes also. That is why I backed out on weathering the metal parts hehe

I will look for the arix brand in ACE hardware SM southmall. Will also drop by Ma'am Amy's shop and pay my respects to the mastah Alencore.

Regarding my AK, with the way they distribute AK's around the world, I wouldn't be surprised to see different shades of wood also. Yun nga lang, It really looks weird heheh.

How much yung arix komrad?

can't remember exactly magkano, but it's Php 90-100 or thereabouts.

@elelkho: iba ung wood stain, and there are varieties that's meant to seal the wood -- para hindi pasukan ng moisture and that one is made of polyurethane particles.

Got the arix brand in ace hardware for PHP74.75 (24 pcs)

It says on the packaging that its "ultrafine" but the saleslady said there is a finer grade. I got the one with a rating of 1. The one with the yellow packaging from china is 3.

0 is supposedly the finest. Did anyone by chance got a steel wool with this grade?

OT: finally met Mastah Rambo. May appointment ang aking AKM sa kanya this week hehehe.

Post #2 updated

nice komrad alakdan! filakairsoft/clap.gif

Thanks komrad ghostshell...kulang pa!

hahanap pa ako ng linseed oil

kom LS, the yellow one i posted in an earlier pic, if you remember, is grade 0 -- fine.

where did you buy your steel wool? i have found, btw, that the salepersons at mall hardware stores are not always knowledgeable about some products, so DO NOT always take their word for how things are. mas nakakaalam ung mga worker sa mga dedicated hardware shops.

doing great, kom alakdan. hinay-hinay lang is the best way to go, i've found. ang hirap bawiin pag sumobra

that's why the ultrafine is the best way to go, imho. especially kung orig pa ung pinta ng AK mo. kung DIY paint, even that is sometimes too coarse. unless ipadry mong mabuti ung pintura.

kung DIY paintjob preparatory to weathering, pinaka advisable ang maglatag ng base coat with a quality primer color.

QUOTE (zenTaurus @ June 16, 2008 08:14 am)

kom LS, the yellow one i posted in an earlier pic, if you remember, is grade 0 -- fine.

where did you buy your steel wool? i have found, btw, that the salepersons at mall hardware stores are not always knowledgeable about some products, so DO NOT always take their word for how things are. mas nakakaalam ung mga worker sa mga dedicated hardware shops.

doing great, kom alakdan. hinay-hinay lang is the best way to go, i've found. ang hirap bawiin pag sumobra

that's why the ultrafine is the best way to go, imho. especially kung orig pa ung pinta ng AK mo. kung DIY paint, even that is sometimes too coarse. unless ipadry mong mabuti ung pintura.

kung DIY paintjob preparatory to weathering, pinaka advisable ang maglatag ng base coat with a quality primer color.

SM southmall Ace Hardware komrad. They told me they had a finer stock of the one with the yellow packaging before, Naubos lang. So yung stock nila na available e medyo magaspang compared to the arix brand.

updated 1st post

great start, LS. wood looks too dark, but it may just be the CP or the lighting filakairsoft/aprub.gif

@komrad zT:
Thanks!

@komrad LS:
i love the color filakairsoft/aprub.gif

Komrad LS,

Ganda !!

Nice color! filakairsoft/aprub.gif

QUOTE (zenTaurus @ June 17, 2008 07:59 am)

great start, LS. wood looks too dark, but it may just be the CP or the lighting filakairsoft/aprub.gif

yup komrad the phone cam is blah but it looks ok in good lighting conditions

Thank you komrad mossad and alakdan. Hats off to your weathered guns. I actually envy how yours turned out. It's not as easy as it seems. filakairsoft/aprub.gif

I am taking it slowly as the guide says. The original paint job of the cm.036 is not as good as I thought, it chips off easily