I thought I'd share a few pictures of my first attempt at giving two No.36 bodies a Manganese Phosphate coating. I obtained a few semi relic grenades and thought I'd strip them right back to bare metal and Parkerize at home. Various recipes can be found online, but they all seemed to follow the same principle. The materials were easy to obtain and fairly cheap. The Phosphoric Acid was sourced from an online brewing supplies store. The grenades were soda/grit blasted prior to coating. This didn't work out as planned, leaving the metal like a Lunar landscape. The results pictured are after around 20 minutes in the hot solution, followed by immersion in boiling water then oiled. I admit I was very surprised at the finished coating. Anyway, I hope that you find them of interest.