painted sights

I painted my sights with Tamiya acrylic paint, one layer of gray primer followed by sky blue and finally a gloss clear coat. The primer helps the blue pop and the gloss helps more light to bounce off. You could use matte if you want, since a clear coat also protects the paint. I think the primer is the most important since it helps the color pop more than painting directly on black.

>>33090206
consider this: for proper aiming you need to be focusing on your front sight. green in the brightest color to the human eye. the way you've painted your sights is counter productive.
secondly, the LCP just sucks. I advise upgrading.

>>33090206
I paint all my front posts with glow in the dark fluorescent green paint. Works great in the day time and works great at night (if you're able to charge the paint with a flashlight or you're going from bright to low light areas). Simple and cheap is often the best solution for mods like this, just don't be a nigger about it. Do it right and do it well.

>>33090225
Next time I will try to put primer and a finish on it. This round was more so a test to see how it performed. The orange did very good just painted on black, but the green did not.

>>33090239
The paint which I have has a fluorescent line, and green seems to be fairly bad from what I've found. I may try it with different blends such as lime green, but I was limited at the time. I'm also a poor student who alteady has spent to much on my guns.

>>33090395
I was skeptical of the glow paints because many of then dried clear or did not show up well. I'll look around some more. Maybe I could use the clear drying stuff as a top coat.

>>33091229
Use clearcoat overtop. I just went to a craft store and bought the $2 acrylic stuff. Make the glow paint bead thick and it will give off light longer.

Gives you a good green frontsight in the day and after waving a flashlight at it for a half a second you get about 10min glow at night