Stippling on Builders Tribe Scout

This is what I came up with for this build.

First, I'll show you an idea I had for something different on the trigger guard.

This is part of a stencil I used for the design. My idea is doing some art by stippling instead of using stencils as a guide for doing a cut out in the trigger guard. After painting, I removed the stencil which gave me my outline to go by (B).

By using a very small tip for my iron I was able to do just little dots for the stippling (A).

I did the same thing on the bottom of the trigger guard too. The reason I wanted to try this instead of doing a cutout is when I did the cutout on the Young Wolf build, it looked cool, but it did nothing for improving your grip. I thought by doing this I could get the art look, but it would help in griping with two hands. It does but not a big improvement.

You can really see how the paint sucks on this one. Paint has a lot of runs and some of the stencils have under bleeding.

All this was caused by my old air brush's small tip waring out and I had to use the size bigger tip. Even when I turned the air pressure down it still put out too much paint at one time causing the runs for having too much paint. The whole key to air brushing is to use small amounts of paint but doing it in layers to build up the color you are looking for. By using small amounts of paint, it dries fast and doesn't have time to cause runs.

I think I nailed the look I was going for.

Feeling good I moved on to stippling around the BT logo.

I went with this style stippling because there is so much going on with this build, polished slide, gold stencils everywhere, logo not to mention all the frame mods, I didn't want to take away from all that by having an over-the-top stippling pattern. This the easiest pattern you can do and does not pull the eye from all the other stuff going on with this build.

This was exactly what I was wanted it to look like. Logo in a satin while stilling is a flat. I wanted it to look like a rubber grip that had a logo molded in it, giving it a one-piece molded look.

All said, so far this is going to great for what it is, a back yard shooter makeover 22LR.

This where I started.

This is part of a set of three 22LR I build a few years ago. This one is a PF940c I have two more on the makeover list, a PF940v and a Pf940sc all next on the list. I absolutely love shooting these 22LR and do so in my back yard when the cows are not in the field, I call my shooting range.