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Old 08-17-2013, 06:45 AM   #5647
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While perusing various mods I found a thread on the XD forum about painting in gun engraving and decided to give it a try. Basically you use fingernail polish, let it dry and them wipe off the excess with non-acetone polish remover. The white worked like a charm - the red was a bit more of a pain - worked okay on the S&W, but the engraving isn't as deep on the XDm and it didn't take at all - had to switch to all white (I might try going with red model paint instead if I do this again). But it came out pretty good. I'm not going to do this to my 1911, but definitely the AR. Note - pictures are blurry because of the camera phone - lines are much crisper than they appear.
Looks good. I don't know if I'll try it on any firearms, but I have a few other things I'm going to try it on.
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