A friend of mine was throwing a piece of slatwall away so I was able to get it free. It had been painted white and was left outside for a few days by the time I had got it. The first thing I had to do was take it inside and clean it. After getting all the bugs and dirt off of it, I got some green painters tape and started to tape over the white.
Once I had the entire top covered in tape, I trimmed the tape off of the edges of the slatwall.
Once I had all my taping done, I painted the cracks with flat black spray paint. I made sure to get the ends of the slatwall as well.
After letting the spray paint dry I removed the tape, leaving the tops white, the cracks and, ends black.
Using a roller and paint I had color matched to the walls in my room, I painted all of the white red.
While letting the paint dry I painted some strapping I had left over from another project black. After everything had dried, I glued the strapping to the face of the slatwall. Once dried I added some finish nails for good measure.
I then glued and nailed more strapping to the edges I had painted black earlier. Making a frame.
For mounting the gun and any accessories I have to the slatwall ,I picked up some pegboard hardware that would also work on the slatwall and painted then flat black. This was the only thing I had to go buy which cost the $2.00. (everything else I already had or, got for free)
Once I had the slatwall mounted to some studs I painted the screw holes, finish nails and any other spots that needed touched up.
here's the finished project and a little gun pron ( I plan to only display my m4 but have many accessories displayed, kind of like that barbie sopmod m4 poster. I still have lots to get.)
