Camoing your rifle?

[D.Sigurdsson]

I was wondering if anyone here could help me in regards to one thing.
I'm starting to camo up my rifle, but I am having some trouble in deciding which camo pattern I should use, I'm using OD as my base color, the other colors I have are Mud Brown, Marsh grass and flat black.

If anyone could give me ideas, that would be great, also some pictures would be awesome.
I've found a couple of tutorials but they dont show much.

[Seraphim]

Try www.ar15.com

[kommando]

haha most resplies i see now to weapons is
go to www.ar15.com
love it

[shrek]

Whatever you do, make the camo pattern big, with large color changes. Small patterns just blend together at a distance. We always used the 20/200 rule. It has to look as good at 20 as it does at 200 or you haven't done anything but change the way it looks.

If you're doing it for the cool factor than pick a pttern you like and paint it!

[Tranceaddict]

yeah, when going about my paint job, i followed exactly what Shrek has said. It all depends on the use too. (sorry, dont mean to make the thread redundant)

[Bombtrack]

Or you could go the cheap way and wrap your rifle in camouflage mesh netting, this way you can quickly & easily change and adapt with your environment

This also works good for guys in units who arent authorised to paint their weapons

[kommando]

yeah the netting is good,
or match it to the surrounding you will most play in

and who is authroised to paint their weapons?

i thought just SF but i have seen alot of regs and marines with painted weapons.

i knwo in australia they use alot of camo-tape.
mainly recon platoons

[digrar]

Cam tape is great until you have to take it off. Takes ages :( .

[shrek]

Yes, and camo tape will trap moisture and rust your weapon out of sight to you. SF and all SpecOp guys can paint their weapons. Our armor dude actually tried to resist us doing it, but hey, his REMF ass ain't the one out there hiding in the MF rocks.

Something else we found destructive but effective. Find a paint color that closely matches the terrain, paint your vest, etc. with a light coat and then cover it with the dust of the surroundings, voila, instant perfect camoflage

[D.Sigurdsson]

Thanks for the quick responce, I'm just doing this to my small game rifle, so I think I'm gonna go with OD with tan lines, since most terrain here in Iceland is mossy and marsh grass.

Like this image shows
http://gallery.bns-code.org/albums/skot3/aaa.jpg
(my friend with his rifle) There was a flock of docks on the water.

plus my ghillie will be in the same color scheme.

[Seraphim]

Where do you live? I thought it was illegal to shoot rifle rounds in lakes/water.

[tacticalmanta]

if you have to pick a solid color for multi role use, OD is not bad but the Marines have found gray to be best.

[ibstolidude]

Just buy some damn Bowflag and a soft brillo s****ge so we can end this thread.

spray it on - dunk in hot water and scrub when ready to loose the look.
Krylon sucks.

[Durandal]

Where do you live? I thought it was illegal to shoot rifle rounds in lakes/water.

Read up your local hunting laws. They vary from country to country and State to State/County to County (in the United States).

[fantassin]

You can use plastic leaves from plastic flowers beds in order to spray paint over them and make a "leaf pattern" that looks very realistic.

[WoodChipper]

Use non-permenent bowflauge by, H.S.Camo. Been using it for years, works great

[Chuck6d]

My friend and I used real leaves with Krylon paint on my AK. Didn't have the balls to paint the Eotech :D

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TwCZAmYYm9Zyb9CPL2lPcedW48hm5rtY8nUICwhyozGkRREzAXEkSjkdKnwS3NJ*oPVIH4zXEiA7S0ljWAXNcZ8zuuqROITq4LJ3MYfVCLE9Aa7zsa15UA/AKcamo2.JPG?dc=4675479074802130411

[SiFiOn]

Another nice example:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16335

[glamwar]

Use a color scheme with only 3-4 colors. Preferably Bowflage if you don't want to change the finish forever. If not, pigmented cal-guard.

Take the nozzle off of a can of air duster that allows the small tube to be fitted on it. Using a pocket knife, cut the tube into as many sections as you have colors, then make some random slits in varying lengths in the very tip of each of the 3 sections of tube. The longer the slits on the tip, the wider the spray pattern. This nozzle will clog easily using bowflage, and will be useless after you're done with the job regardless of paint type.
Use OD, sand, or sage as the base color (depending on terrain and paint type and availability) and build onto that with your other colors.
Use several layers to blend all colors with each other well, allowing each layer to fully dry independantly.

One of the most important things is DO NOT USE BLACK! Forget about the "shadowing" part, it's BS.
In the off chance that black is needed, use sparingly and in light coats.

I've found it best to try and achieve a gradient effect. Where the colors blend gradually between each other. Which means you have to be conscious of what colors actually CAN fade into each other.

Use large patterns with the dominant colors in your scheme, and smaller patterns with the recessive colors.
This allows the camo pattern to remain effective even when it begins to wear off.


Hope this works for you, someone showed me how to do this quite well. That was hands on though, hope I've illustrated the points effectively with words!

[garoco]

Watch the use of scrim/camouflage nets around your weapons. I've seen utter n00bs in the past use too much on their gatts and have it interfere with the working parts, catch fire etc during firing.