Delivered P226 Legion looks like poop color

[arakboss]

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.

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Happy with the results

big improvement

 

[CRBMoA]

I am not one to Bedazzle my gear, but if I did, I would totally dig what you have done. Much better!!

 

[BGP1776]

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.

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It is both depending on color and angle of view.

 

[mkwerx]

I kinda like the original, but yeah, that's not the same gray any other Legion I've seen is. It does look like baby poop green-gray.

I noticed something with Cerakote - at least the Cerakote job I got on my M&P - it looks great initially, but I've done a lot of dry fire / draw practice with it, and the Cerakote has worn away on the high points of the slide already, after probably 300 draws or so. I don't think they bead blasted the melonite off the slide, but they might've, because there's shiny metal showing thru in a couple spots that weren't there with just the OE finish before.

I think I'd be asking the gunsmith if they blast the original finish off (especially if Cerakoting an anodized aluminum part - anodizing isn't just corrosion resistance, it's a surface hardening as well which improves durability)

 

[powermad]

The Cerakote gray seems to come in different shades.
Some have just a hint of green while others look like a light OD.

The PVD gray doesn't look bad when new.
Wears faster than Cerakote though.

My M11-A1 is FDE Cerakote and it's worn thin in all the usual spots pretty quick.
No bare metal, just nitron and anodizing showing through.

 

[GunSmoke]

The same thing happened to me and here's what I found out... the initial Legion pistols had the pvd finish in light gray. Then everyone started bi****ng about it wearing too fast so Sig switched to a more durable cerakote that came out in a darker "gray". Problem was all the dealers were still displaying the pvd finish and people were receiving the darker cerakote. I even went online shortly after getting mine and the Sig website still showed the light gray. I kept mine because I actually liked the new finish. A lot of people were pretty annoyed and I get that too. I guess they just didn't do a good job letting everyone know they were switching finishes