Painting Black Pmags close to FDE?

[griebel303]

Well seeing how FDE pmags are pretty hard to come by these days and might not be available before the End of June deadline, I am thinking about possibly painting some of the black pmags I have. I have searched around and found some different bits of information on other forums, but was curious if anyone here has any experience with painting their mags and getting them close to matching FDE? Thanks for any input you have.

I did search our forum and didn't find anything specific like this, so sorry if I am overlooking an existing thread

[ben4372]

Duracoat sells a Magpul FDE and it probably works fine. If I was gonna try it I'd find some dye/paint used for car dashes and vinyl interiors. I used some on a set of VW seats some years back and it was surprisingly durable. Any coating is gonna be a distant second to a molded through magazine.

[griebel303]

Thanks for the input Ben. I will see what duracoat has

[Cylinder Head]

Brownells Alumahyde II in FDE works well also.

[RedDogFabrication]

I just duracoated some mags magpul dark earth the other night they came out really well look factory, in fact you can't really tell they are coated

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[car-15]

I've used the brownells in coyote on my .308 pmags, it matched the fde camo duracoat on the rifle pretty well, and it stood up to a good amount of abuse.
http://www.brownells.com/gunsmith-tools-supplies/metal-prep-coloring/paint-finishes/air-cure-aerosol-paints/aluma-hyde-reg-ii-prod1117.aspx

[griebel303]

Thank you guys for the input. I appreciate it. ReddogFabrication your mags came out solid. I have about 10 mags to do so I think I am going to order a shake and spray kit from duracoat in fde, as well as a can of Brownells Alumahyde II in coyote and see which looks better.

[smchop]

Cerakote has magpul FDE in an air dry that works well also.

[griebel303]

Thanks smchop. I will check that out too

[Sawin]

Let me know how this turns out dude. I might have to come by and check them out and give it a go, myself.

[griebel303]

Will do! I will send you a message once I have the paint here

[Sawin]

Will do! I will send you a message once I have the paint here
sounds good!

[tmjohnson]

I powder coated some mags in flat black, turned out real good.

[SideShow Bob]

I powder coated some mags in flat black, turned out real good.

I don't think that baking a PMag to set the powder coat will turn out very good, unless a puddle of plastic is your goal.....

[RonMexico]

Spray paint ...... I didn't paint the area of the mag that goes into the magwell.

[Mick-Boy]

What RonMexico said. Find the color that matches what you want, tape off the top of the magazine (this helps the magazine continue to fall free of the magwell. Paint tends to make the magazine hang up), and paint away. Mine come out looking like this.

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l305/malonpm/Lightfighter/IMG_0010_zps2871210a.jpg

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l305/malonpm/Lightfighter/IMG_0006_zpsf55fe8b5.jpg