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Ok so IT'S DONE! I have attached some before and after pictures and a picture containing the 3 parts needed to be done. I'll just give a summery of what went down here. Important to note, I have a metal barrel and slide, DO NOT DO THIS FOR PLASTIC!!!

1) look on here for the post containing the parts breakdown picture for your gun, VERY nessisary for this project. Take the slide off and take it apart leaving the main three sections, slide barrel and I'll call it the bb catcher. Take the barrel apart so you have just the outside and same with the bb catcher. Take off the plastic sights too.

2) Get a bottle of paint remover from home hardware, its about 6 bucks or so, and pick up a brass brush at the same time.

3) wear gloves and goggles, I wore a t-shirt and got some of this remover on my arm, it burns, wear a long shirt too. Drench the area of paint that you're removing and let it sit for 5-10 min, then you should be able to easily take it off with the brass brush. You may do this a few times to get it all off.

4) after you are done I submersed all the parts in water to wash most of the remover crap off.

5) I used carpolish to do the barrel, not wax, just the polish, and it came out ok, but I wouldn't waste time again. It wasn't worth the lack of improvement.

6) put it all back together. Then I used my propane adapter and used TONS of oil because most was in water, and used up a full clip. Then I used 2 drop and fired some bb's out in the second clip, and she worked like a charm

Conclusion: I like the look that came out, it was a dull look not a shiney look. Plus it kept all the engravings on the gun which sanding would have eliminated and too much paint would have eliminated. I noticed that the base of the gun stick out a little in the front about 1 mm. It never did taht before, but the gun works 100 percent ok after all of this so I am assuming its just that way because of the layer of paint. It was a very thick layer. I don't know if you can paint after this is done. A gentleman (I am assuming if its a woman I appologize) posted a product here for repainting gun surfaces, if you wish to paint it after this, I'd reccomend atleast checking his product out. Can't vouch for it because I didn't use it, but its a good heads up.

Difficulty Rating: 2 / 10. I've never taken the slide apart but I have taken it off, very easy to do, and relatively quick to take apart and put back together
Epected outcome Rating: 8 / 10 It came out almost exactly how I expected. The only exception was the base sticking out a little.
Reccomendation Rating: 9 / 10 I would definately reccomend this mod to anyone looking for a cheap colour change. If you want shiney then I would consider painting after the fact.

Any questions feel free to ask. And if you know why the base now hangs out, let me know, but the gun works fine so it must be seated in there correctly.