I was rummaging through some junk last night and, to my surprise, found a plastic bag full of assorted P35 parts:
Thats a lot of mainsprings. But…there are also two complete Type-A sights. As I mentioned, the Watergun needs a sight spring and screw. Well, not anymore, it doesn’t.
So that’s really about it for parts replacement. All thats really left is to get it coated with something. Since I had the parts on hand, my basis remains unchanged.
I’m thinking either a light shade of OD green or ‘coyote’ (which we used to just call ‘desert’ back in the day). And then maybe some nice laminate grips.
While I’ve established that the gun functions, I need to shoot it and see how accurate it is.
Nice, Comandante………………
Sweet!
Always nice to see an old warhorse restored to duty.
My purely uninvited opinion would be for an OD coating.
(Just don’t drop it in the bushes.)
Whatever you choose, glad the project has worked out so well.
That’s awesome! May she run flawlessly for many years to come!!!
How about a clear matte coating so it looks the same.
How many handguns do you own again?
Naval grey… Or some other water themed color perhaps???
Thought about some sort of water motiff, but I want to be practical. I’m leaning towards an olive/desert two-tone.
I was going to go with Olive until you mentioned olive/desert two-tone. That would look fantastic on that Hi Power. OD slide with a desert frame with maybe some OD and black mircarta or G10 grips. I refinished a old Star BM in OD green because it was a pitted using Brownells Alumihyde spray several years ago to use as a camping pistol. It’s held up okay, but would love to get my Hungarian HP clone done in cerakote in OD green.
” OD slide with a desert frame with maybe some OD and black mircarta or G10 grips.”
Thats pretty much exactly what I had in mind.
No, be hero and have painted something colorful. Royal blue. Purple. Orange. Hot pink. Hmmmm?
A glossy black ceracote with wood grips is the only reasonable finish option
With that scaring and pitting? Nah. I actually thought of what an earlier post had mentioned, not a clear spray mind you but just heavily oiled all the time to show the scars of life yet I suspect most of the Commander’s firearms are “working” weapons with very little to hang on the show off wall, although this one would qualify IMO. Sort of a hidden in plain sight, fully loaded P35 as a show piece with a history.
If not an OD Green slide, then a Non-reflective satin black over the FDE would look good, with G10 grip maybe some Tru-Glo fiber sights (if you like that sort of thing, I prefer a triple dot hopefully with some Tritium in it). I opted for the non-reflective satin finish on an older carried often 1911, that thing almost sucks in the light, add a Pachmyer classic on it and it’s hard to make out the features other than a silhouette.
I just want to comment a Well Done on this one Commander, only thing left is a new(er) barrel if the accuracy isn’t Minute of Man. A truly nice build up.
Pretty sure that rear sight drum is backwards. You should be looking at the underside/inside of the hollow cylinder, not the smooth radius.
Good eye. Thats a tad embarassing, innit?
If you REALLY want to upset a leftie, make it a matte-black finish and tell them it’s to match your helicopter!
I was gong to say to match your chopper, but that could be misunderstood…