When I bought my current Stingray-C, there was a blemish in the finish on the side of the frame. Everything else on gun was great, though, and I didn't want to deal with returns, so I told myself this was fine. Then I converted the gun to be non-ambidextrous, because I'm right handed, and the ambi-controls made it a very thick gun. During one of the many, many takedowns for parts-fitting, I ended up dinging and scratching the gun a few times. These two combined made me decide idiotically to try to refinish the gun myself. It's now been resprayed about 5 times now, with everything from engine enamel to Alumahyde II, whatever I could get my hands on cheaply that I thought might stick. Needless to say, none of them worked out, and after doing some sanding to bare metal to remove some of the tool marks I left in it, and scraping to remove some of the stubborn bits of old finishes, I now have a very, very, very ugly gun, that is ridiculously fun to shoot because it's loaded with CGW parts.
tl;dr: My gun is ugly. It's my fault.
That being said, I'm hoping to send it off to get it refinished soon, and I'm looking for color ideas.
At the moment, the top 3 contenders are:
Burnt Bronze - It looks so cool on so many other things, but I cannot find a well-lit picture of it on a CZ? I don't want this gun to look 'Tacticool', but in the pictures I can find, I can't tell if it would look that way or not.
Satin Aluminum - I don't have a picture of it on a CZ, but:
While I think this is probably my safest bet, and that it would look very, very nice, I'm hesitant to send it away and pay $$$$ that I can't really spare, just to have a gun that looks exactly like the factory chrome one.
Tungsten
Somewhat understated, but not as plain as black. Not as flashy or unique as burnt bronze, though.
I'm open to suggestions! I'm not really a huge fan of two-tone, and I'm opposed to straight black because of what I said under Satin Aluminum.
Hopefully once I get my gun un-uglified, I'll be able to post more pictures here for you guys..
