"Painting" Hellstorm S.O.L.A.G. gloves.

[Phantom]

G'day people,
There's not too much in nature that's black, so I thought I'd try and put some green and brown onto my gloves, but dye isn't going to work. I could use paint, but I don't want to damage it.

Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?

Cheers

[JunglistSoldier]

Just buy some brown krylon man.

[Phantom]

how much is it, what is it, where do i get it

[Seraphim]

Krylon is spraypaint...just head down to some hardware store.

[Phantom]

oki doki

[eggroll]

so what you want to do is get yourself some MATTE spray paint and LIGHTLY dust the gloves. If you lay it down thick, the paint will crack and peel.

All you need to do is break the outline, and you do that with lighter colored paints, greens may not show up as well as hoped.

EGG

[James]

Get some fishnet and a bit of burlap - you can make ghillie gloves! :P

[ibstolidude]

put them in an envelope and mail them to me
then just paint your hands.

[Phantom]

lol, i don't think so ib!
so u like the solag's ey

[VS]

i dont recommend that you are spraying your gloves, spray will worn out when you use gloves.

[Phantom]

it will what?

[Seraphim]

Hes basically saying that the paint will wear off.

[JunglistSoldier]

uhm.. moot point. The camo creme I apply to my face wears of, is that a reason to stop camoing my face? No.

The paint i have on my vest right now wears of. It will eventually, and when it does you reapply more paint. Simple as that.

Ofcourse the best thing you can do is NOT buy black gloves :P

[Phantom]

good point.
but if the gloves are better, then they're better and that's all there is to it.

[ibstolidude]

so Phantom -
Are you going to send me those gloves or what?


but seriously folks....

when you get them painted just come back and let everyone know how they worked...give us the Phantom Review..
I've never painted gloves, but have used Bowflage on kneepads, chestharness and other "softer flexible" things....it wears off but it still is breaks up the solid colors.

[Ichhabe]

Eeeeh? I'm not an expert on issues like this, but? If you are being given away by your gloves?!?! Aren't you a itsy bitsy to close then? :oops:

[Phantom]

how close to you have to be to use binoculars/scope

[ibstolidude]

close enough to mail me your gloves?

hey you can't blame a guy fro trying not-so subliminal messages.

[Phantom]

lol, i'll do a swap
if you buy me some green, nomex gloves (the ones without leather) i'll send you mine

[VS]

Wear off. Yeah, that was the word that I tried to say. Thanks.
As you see i´m not pretty good at English.
But to the topic,as you said, best thing what you can do is buy already a green gloves, then you don´t have paint your gloves and it looks lot of better than painted version.
I really hope you understand, what i tried to say.

[Phantom]

yeh i understand. but what's more important? gloves that you don't have to paint, or gloves that are the best available, but you have to paint them?

[JunglistSoldier]

Eeeeh? I'm not an expert on issues like this, but? If you are being given away by your gloves?!?! Aren't you a itsy bitsy to close then? :oops:

Acctually, your bare white hands will give you away very very quickly sience they move around alot. A black hand is better but a properly camoed one wins the race.

[Phantom]

thanks for pointing out the obvious......

[JunglistSoldier]

Don't step to me, man.

I just provided a factual answer to a posed question.

[Phantom]

hahahahahaha.
all i did was point out the facts, just like you.

[JunglistSoldier]

Ok now I'm confused.

[Ichhabe]

Well, stop waving the hands then. And do as a good soldier do, put them in your pockets. ;)

[Scrim]

Best gloves Ive ever had are the Hatch Operatorswww.tacticalcity.com/gloves.asp and they come in green!
Personally Ive had bad luck painting soft materials, I spray-painted a padded binocular case a couple of years ago, the dam things still wet!

[Phantom]

those are the gloves i'm talking about, except the grey strip isn't leather, it's just nomex

[Scrim]

Not the flight gloves. The OPERATOR gloves. Here is a better site.www.ustacticalsupply.com/hatchoperator.shtml.

[JunglistSoldier]

Well, stop waving the hands then. And do as a good soldier do, put them in your pockets. ;)

haha 'hjemmevernet' all the way :) Hands in pockets rifle on back always at the ready.. with the coffe cup. :P

[RealUltimatePower]

Hey Phantom I've had a pair of hellstorms for two years now and they're really great in the feild. My advice just wear em and get em dirty. Even when I wash mine now they're still pretty brown and green from all the months on ex. Though I find it really doesn't matter if they are black in the first place since my C-7A1 is black and if I needed to cam myself and my rifle up really well I just wouldn't wear my gloves and cam my hands up. Since when you're trying to stay hidden you ain't doing alot of jumpin and running and can probably shoot better with bear hands anyways. I only wear the gloves in assaults and then they know I'm coming and the color of my gloves doesn't matter a whole lot.

[glamwar]

Just use bowflage.
It doesn't bond with the surface of what's painted, so it won't ruin anything.
It comes off easier than perm spray paint, but the trade off is worth it if you don't want to take the chance of ruining the surface of the glove.

I really don't think ANY spray paint would actually damage the glove.
But if you don't want to risk it, go with bowflage.
To make it stick to the glove longer, lightly dust the gloves with krylon matte finish after you put the bowflage on.

Hard thing about painting gloves is that since the material stretches and flexes alot the paint has a tendency to crack off quickly.

Best option is flesh out gloves, they retain dirt better so they become dull quickly and blend in better overall.
But you limit your glove options when you go with flesh out. Just like boots.

[shrek]

Man, do I have to show you guys how to do everything?

Here's where to send the gloves:

Shrek
13 free****forshrek rd
Fayetteville NC
28200


Ok, really, the way we made our gloves work in the ****ehole is just like our vests. We sprayed a light coat of the right color paint on them, then while the paint is still wet, we dusted them with whatever dirt was on the ground in the area you will be using them in. i.e. Brown dirt, sand, etc.

Yes, it eventually wears off but so does the paint on your weapon and the skin holding your guts in, so just paint them again!!