A painted Phantom

[PeterG]

Hi All

Attached is a picture of my newly painted Phantom.

It has been lube tuned and converted from a Walmart non-PAL to a PAL with a reversed nitro piston. Chevota described how and it worked perfectly. I've been shooting it that way for quite a while now, and I love the thing. The trigger is a very smooth genuine two stage (also Chevota), it shoots around 740 fps with Excite Hammers (really cheap ammo), and can shoot the hair off a gnat's leg. It's a little tough to cock (46 lbs on the bathroom scale) but I'm quite used to it, and it's just part of my "fitness" program now.

Today I painted it. (The gold fades intentionally toward the front and I'm still undecided about the look), but I thought I'd show it a little anyway.




There are just so many many ways to have fun with an air gun.

Peter

[wllm995]

Very nice!

[wesb2007]

Hey that's great, interesting about the mods too! Thanks for sharing! Pretty awesome design IMHO!

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[peterdulux]

Not a fan of painting/decorating guns, but that looks great. Thumbs up

[joe hickey]

Nice job. Did you put clear coat over the paint ?

[PeterG]

The paint has been clear coated. It hadn't been when the picture was taken, but I put some on last evening.

I re-shaped the stock and made the finish smooth some time ago, and then couldn't decide what to do next so finally painted it.

I'm not smart or skilled enough to invent/develop a new gun, but I love doing minor modifications/tweaks. It gives me a break from all that shooting I have to do in the garage in preparation for the zombie apocalypse.

Peter

[Ace]

nice clean job Peter, well done...

[RC1947]

Very nice work! RC

[tango]

The paint has been clear coated. It hadn't been when the picture was taken, but I put some on last evening.

I re-shaped the stock and made the finish smooth some time ago, and then couldn't decide what to do next so finally painted it.

I'm not smart or skilled enough to invent/develop a new gun, but I love doing minor modifications/tweaks. It gives me a break from all that shooting I have to do in the garage in preparation for the zombie apocalypse.

Peter

I think this is the real value of "cheap" Chinese guns and also our generous supply of sub PAL cheap guns lend themselves to mods, improvements and experiments like this.
Almost feeling sorry for our southern neighbours who aren't challenged to up gun their own chinese guns because they come all done- off the shelf.
Nice job BTW.

[TriggerHappy416]

Very cool. What kind of rear sight is that and what's the tube thingy?

[Edmonton<500]

Pretty darned sweet looking, Peter.

[abslayer]

Looks great

[PeterG]

The rear sight is a UTG peep sight from Amazon.ca mounted on a tiny little section of Picatinny rail which you can buy on ebay for a few dollars.

The tube thingy is a piece of 3/4" copper pipe cut lengthwise, shaped and painted. It's to shield the sight from glare (I find it helps) and it's unnecessarily long just because I felt like making it unnecessarily long.

Peter

[MyCrosman]

☺Good job.Looks great...

[megiddo65]

Nice work on the paint job Peter! I actually like the gold fade on the body. The improvised tube to reduce glare is another great idea.