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Guys, any tips on what kind of paint and where to get it, for re-painting my Type-95 saya? It had been totally stripped and painted gold before I got it, so I've stripped the gold and would like to paint it something more original. There is a small section on the screw tab of the kabuto-gane of the original color.

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Bruce,

 

go to a specialist and do let it repaint professionally...

this should not cause any problems if he does get the exact info on the paint which got used for this kind of stuff originally....

 

don´t know ? don´t you have something like this here( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAL-Farbe) at your´s ?

 

Christian

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Hello Bruce,

Tamiya models green acrylic paint on a dark undercoat is very close to the gunto green. I have used this in the past using a nice soft 1/2 inch brush to good effect...used to be able to get the spray cans in the same colour but I think they have discontinued them in the U.K....not sure about the U.S. ?

Regards,

Paul.

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Hello Bruce,

Nice paint job.When I've had to do similar work on a gunto I keep it in the living room and handle it as much as possible even take it to the garage when working on the car or chopping wood...the wife understands and kids don't take any notice anymore. That said it is not to deceive anyone but just to add a bit of patina..

Paul..

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Isn't it funny how Americans like to " Brand New " old Gunto swords and koshirae, and that brings better money for them. In Australia if I came across a " Brand New " Gunto  ie Repainted, Restored, Tampered with, and Unoriginal it is actually worth less money.

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Hello Bruce,

I have been collecting Gunto's for years preferably ones with a bit of history but even I couldn't live with a gold one and I've just been offered an officers one painted in what looks like metallic gold car paint seen on 80's fords...! If it was an nco,s I'd probably take it and do the same as you...I've known for gold and silver painted gunto,s and also talked to the veterans who brought them back and thought it was a good idea at the time to paint them with paint from where they worked..That said - they had lived through death and destruction but were still teenagers when they brought them back...! In the U.K I do come across ' Frankenstein ' officers swords with badly painted saya but not that many nco's models...there was one at the Brecon arms fair a couple of months ago and someone did buy it.....so maybe not common but certainly not uncommon...

Regards,

Paul..

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Paul, powerful story! If I knew the story of one like that, I'd keep it too!!!. So far, counting your story, I've hear 3. The other two were swords painted gold, laying in the corner of a theatre in Avon-on-trent, England, for plays; the other a kid who painted his dad's sword for fun.

 

I don't know the stories behind mine. All I know is that in 1926, a new Emporer was inaguarated in Japan. There were scabbards painted gold for that occasion, but due to the date, 1926, they couldn't have been guntos. So, I gave in and re-painted mine.

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A recent update on the gold painted gunto. Our good freind IJASWORDS sent me these pics of the saya of a copper handled Type 95. He's a metals guy and analyzed the gold and found it was gold-gilding. By the wear patterns it seems to have been there from the war. Quite a mystery!

 

I've added it to my growing discussion of gold painted gunto on SFI: http://www.swordforum.com/forums/showthread.php?115526-Gold-Painted-Shin-Guntos!&p=1226353#post1226353

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It looks like varnish. It was common practice by collectors to cover the blade with varnish during the 70's and 80's. I have seen a lot of bayonets, all covered with a coat of varnish. It protects the blade and luckly easy to remove.

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Bruce,  I think you did a great job which involved craftsmen who are your friends.

 

Personally, being a modeller myself, I would have added some washes and other techniques to tone down the newly applied  paint.

 

That takes skill and effort though. Much easier to let time and handling take it's course! ;)

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