Here are a few after I duracoated my second Steyr. I love this weapon. Too bad I sold one already...kinda made me feel sick :(

Guns & Ammo Dinner Table

Here is a dinner table in my house, I call it a full meal :) It is my CETME with original wood furniture (also have it with FN Green furniture), My Steyr, Beretta, Doublestar M4 and FNP-9. And some ammo and other items. Up late trying to be all artsy and what naught...

FNP-9 And Steyr M40 A1

Here are two of my favorite sidearms before doing the Steyr. Still trying to decide on what to do with the FNP. I did sell it to a friend (actually traded it for his '95 Ford Mark 4 van...runs nice) but he gives me free reign on what I want to do. I did his Beretta 96 (also an ex-gun of mine) and it turned out pretty good. He is also from So. Cal so I did a So. Cal design for him. I love doing the Beretta 92's and 96's. There are sooo many things you can do, great design and a comfortable weapon.

Before Flat Dark Earth

Here is the Steyr before the Duracoat. It was simple as everything is enclosed in a "carriage". The trigger group slid out easily after removing the slide release and the safety switch. I did however lose the spring behind it so I had to replace it with another I had laying around (actually stole one from my trusty Zebra pen). But it works fine. The only thing i thought I may have a problem with was removing the magazine release but after removing it (clever design, spring slides out on the safety side) I thought the problem I might have was putting it back in but that was actually pretty easy, took maybe a few minutes. The only masking I had to do was the serial number. After the dis-assembly and the sandblasting it was easy, the whole project took me half a day. I am thinking of doing the slide and magazine bottoms a copper or bronze with metal flake and filing the lettering with flat dark earth. Still thinking about it. May talk a friend into letting me experiment with his first. Give him a break on cost or something ;)

Here is my new old gun, just a fresh coat of Duracoat. I had a hard time choosing what I wanted to do to it to make it "mine". To stand out from the rest. I have seen many pictures of other Steyr M series pistols but nothing other than black. I think this side arm is a superior weapon and my favorite of my pistols which include the following but not in order of favorites, Springfield .40 XDM, a great weapon, well balanced and very accurate with it's standard Match grade barrel and 16+ capacity mags, I will include pictures of it in later posts, my FNP 9, another great pistol with its low recoil to get back on target faster, accuracy, hi cap mags. I feel it would be a great carry pistol. And last but not least my Springfield 1911 Government issue with it's Powerful .45 cartridge, slim design, accuracy, after market possibilities, proven dependability and of coarse it's history and legendary service.


Back to my M40 A1. I was wanting to do something that makes it stand out but with a polymer pistol there was only so much unlike other metal framed pistols. I was trying to decide between OD or FN green. FN green is my favorite and chose it for my CETME/G3 rifle and thought it appropriate since it IS an Austrian manufactured firearm. But, when the time came I decided to go with Magpul's flat dark earth since I am going to do my newest AR 15 the same color and I have another M40A1 to do and I saw an FNP 9 the same color.