To be honest, I painted my front sight on my Kimber with orange model paint and it worked ok, but I ended up painting it with white model paint and found that it shows up a lot better. IMHO, I would go with white.

 

On the other part of your question, I just paint the breach side of the sight from top edge of the sight down to the barrel.

 

I used some Liquid Paper (white) on the front sight of my Dan Wesson model 15. It was red but I had a hard time seeing it at the indoor range. If I want to change it I rub it off with my finger.

 

You can buy special paint just for that reason its cheap and can be found at most gun stores.

A lot of people use fingernail polish.

 

Yeah, I may try the nail polish next for the variety of colors and the ease of changing it out with some acetone.

 

The other paint that designed for it last pretty well I bought a 3 bottle pack and its still good after many years. Plus its florescent.

 

i put a primer of white model paint then my florecent works really well also use denatured alcohol first :thumb: :guns:

 

Here is a site you might try:

I bought a kit from them a few years back. Worked very well for me.

http://www.brightsights.com/index.shtml

 

Bright Sights work pretty well. A friend of mine bought a set a couple years ago. He let me use the set a few months ago to doctor up some of my sights. Works pretty dang well and there is enough paint to last through dozens and dozens of guns.

Just be sure to really clean off your sights before painting and allow to dry for over 24 hours if not longer. If you wait only a few hours, the paint will come right off.

 

Thanks for the information.
It seems my eyes used to work better.

 

A lot of people use fingernail polish.

+10000

CHEAP ENAMEL!! and comes in all sorts of colors. Anything you can imagine now days.
and if it chips you just break out the bottle again and good to go.

 

I use Revlon " Red Hot Tamale" fingernail polish on most of my front sights. First I use a white base coat then add the red on top. Really make the red glow.

MikeyB

 

I used to paint all my non night sight equipped pistols with luminescent paint. I am going to paint my PT99 front and rear sight here soon due to my nitesiter sights falling out . Some paint the whole sight but I just always paint the depressed dots but to each their own.

 

White always seemed to work better for me.

 

White 3 dot sights work well because the front sight has a little black around it for contrast. If the whole front sight is painted white, it gets lost on the target paper at the range, at least it did for me. That's why I switched over to red for my wife's Ruger LCR front sight.