Limited edition “gold” FN SCARs rumored to be botched run

According to MarineSniper8541 @ AR15.com (without any collaborating evidence) the limited edition run of FN SCAR 16S rifles with their gold colored upper receivers was in fact a botched run that came out the wrong color. The marketing department then decided to sell them as a limited edition.

Apparently, the initial factory run of SCAR upper receivers went to anodizing and came back way too “gold” for FN’s specs. (Look at all advertisments, videos and such for the actual FN spec color of the upper, the upper and lower should pretty much match). It has been described to me that the anodizing of parts in FDE is tricky and can come out very “gold” looking if the process isn’t done correctly.

So anyways, FN gets its first commercial run of uppers back from anodizing and they are very “gold”. FN decides to go ahead and sell this huge batch of “gold” uppers and to call it a limited edition so that they can sell them without having to have them blasted and re-anodized…HAHA!

The next production run will be in the correct color for the uppers. So in a nutshell, the people paying $4500 for a “limited edition” are getting rifles that were actually screwed up and made in the wrong color. Smart move on FN’s part. They took a botched run of uppers and turned them into a “gold” mine. No pun intended.

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Limited Edition SCAR.

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Standard color scheme

This is just a rumor, and is not confirmed. If it is true it was a stoke of genius by the marketing department. I actually like the gold look a lot.

Many thanks to Jay for the link.

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Steve Jan 30th 2009 rifles Tags: , , , , 7 Comments

7 Responses to “Limited edition “gold” FN SCARs rumored to be botched run”

  1. Vote For Davidon 31 Jan 2009 at 4:30 am link comment

    LOL, Hooray Capitalism!

  2. Sven Ortmannon 31 Jan 2009 at 8:20 am link comment

    I concur, it looks great for a civilian rifle.
    It could/should have been completely in that color.

    My preference is usually for a very special and great look of 200+ y.o. caucasian walnut wood that I saw once at a lever action rifle. Nothing looks greater than that, but this ‘gold’ plastic is very appropriate for an automatic rifle.

  3. Mikeon 31 Jan 2009 at 9:44 am link comment

    Snafu or not, they’ll be worth something down the road.

  4. Mgpattyon 05 Mar 2009 at 3:33 am link comment

    Apparently those who claim that the color of the civiy Scar is incorrect have never seen a .mil Mk16. The colors of both rifles are the same. However I hear the airsoft version is very pretty.

  5. sigmundon 30 Mar 2009 at 3:13 pm link comment

    all i know is i got one of em, #135 to be exact.

  6. gun nuton 07 Oct 2009 at 3:53 pm link comment

    all i can say is i was very dissappointed when i saw this color in person it was not at all what i expect from fn…i will wait until they grt it together or for an acr.

  7. gun nuton 07 Oct 2009 at 4:01 pm link comment

    i also saw an original with the correct color it was very nice ..

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