Delivered P226 Legion looks like poop color

[throneofbeards]

I ordered what I thought was a GREY p226 legion. When I got it the color looked like pea soup. Brown/Green very disappointed. Called Sig and they said that's the color and they would not replace it. I had no choice but to have it redone.




After getting cerakoted. Graphite black + Jesse James cold war grey.

Note: The person who worked on it said there was a layer of black underneath the pea soup color. I suspect Sig is using left over black framed p226 building it up with legion features and painting them with the Legion grey. Black + Grey = pea soup color.




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[Nosferatu]

Does it match your shoes now, Elvis?

 

[L84Cabo]

That is not a color scheme I would have initially chosen but it came out very nice. Me likey.

 

[TTSX]

What's wrong with pea soup?

 

[Old Dog]

I like the color... But yours does look a little less gray than the usual. Anyway, I also worry more about the actual performance of the pistol than the aesthetics. My Legions are pretty spectacular performers. Not shown: P-226 Legion SAO, the best of the breed.

 

[titsonritz]

I'd have left it as came and spent that money on putting rounds down the tube.

 

[patrikky]

I ordered what I thought was a GREY p226 legion. When I got it the color looked like pea soup. Brown/Green very disappointed. Called Sig and they said that's the color and they would not replace it. I had no choice but to have it redone.


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After getting cerakoted. Graphite black + Jesse James cold war grey.

Note: The person who worked on it said there was a layer of black underneath the pea soup color. I suspect Sig is using left over black framed p226 building it up with legion features and painting them with the Legion grey. Black + Grey = pea soup color.

Very happy with the result.

How fashionable of you.

 

[powermad]

Note: The person who worked on it said there was a layer of black underneath the pea soup color. I suspect Sig is using left over black framed p226 building it up with legion features and painting them with the Legion grey. Black + Grey = pea soup color.

Umm, no.
The black layer is Nitron on the slide and anodized on the frame.
LE models are black.
You can't use any ol 226 frame for a Legion.
The frame is unique to those only.
The majority of the other parts are the same as the rest though.

Older ones like mine with the PVD gray have a goldish color anodized frame.

Hopefully the anodizing wasn't blasted off as that has far more protection than Cerakote.

 

[LDmax]

Cool gun, enjoy!

 

[po18guy]

The poop color is urban camouflage. Buy syringe grips and it will be invisible downtown.

 

[BGP1776]

I agree, mine was that pea soup color too.

It's at the gunsmith getting cerakoted but I am doing all brushed aluminum or whatever it is that comes close. I don't have the balls to do a funky color.

 

[WAYNO]

Just one more example, not everyone has the same tastes, and all the more reason gun manufacturers offer so many different colors.

Personally, I liked the original color.

 

[Certaindeaf]

"Honey, the boutique called and said your gun is done."

 

[throneofbeards]

I agree, mine was that pea soup color too.

It's at the gunsmith getting cerakoted but I am doing all brushed aluminum or whatever it is that comes close. I don't have the balls to do a funky color.

The color is a grey blue or what's called German blue.

 

[throneofbeards]

Just one more example, not everyone has the same tastes, and all the more reason gun manufacturers offer so many different colors.

Personally, I liked the original color.

You like pea soup color?

 

[WAYNO]

You like pea soup color?

In this case, yes. I have a number of different firearms in traditional camo colors, tan, brown OD, etc.

 

[JohnnyMac]

I like it.

 

[Member 34319]

The redo looks great.

If sig is advertising that as grey they are way off. That's green. Ugly too.

A quick google search found two diff looking colors? It's sig, so I'm not surprised, I'm loosing count of how many different variations they have of just one model.

I am surprised by their response. Kind of bubblegumty if you ask me for such a regarded company.

 

[WAYNO]

Further, regardless of our individual taste differences, if I ordered Gray and received Green, that would not be acceptable.

 

[tac]

I'd be happy to have it ANY darn colour.

And so would around a 100,000 other former pistol shooters here in England, Scotland and Wales.