Rattle can cammo ideas?

[Mick-Boy]

For a pattern I'll just put on a base color (tan for instance) and then grab a couple of handfuls of grass or leaves from the yard and scatter them over the gun and apply other colors (green and brown). The whole process takes about 20min.

Here's my buddy's boy shooting one of my rifles.

[Mick-Boy]

Painting Your Carbine - from the Book of Pat.

A word of caution about Lightfighter; Take some time to figure out the personality of the forum and decide whether it's for you before you post. It's not as aggressive as SOCNET but if you start posting outside of your lane you WILL get called on it. Limit yourself to things you have first hand knowledge about and it's a great community.

Another thread there with some great ideas - I Blame Stephen for my Painted Rifle. 30 Pages (and counting) of pictures of people's painted guns.

Oh yeah! Also, don't forget to post your intro.

[ray1970]

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.. I have a few ammo cans i'd like to do a camo job on. I suppose i better practice on something else first but hopefully this thread can give me some ideas.
Seems like finding the pattern is going to be the hard part

You could always practice on some ammo cans.... oh, wait... never mind.

Seriously, thanks for the good idea. I have practiced on large pieces of PVC pipe, an old A2 buttstock I had lying around, and a piece of scrap lumber. I never thought of an ammo can. Heck, if it turns out good I could probably sell it for enough to buy another ammo can to practice on.

[DuckTape&550Cord]

Here's my AR with Krylon paint. I painted it with a base of Tan. Applying several coats with drying in summer sun in between. Then used a small piece of mesh material to do the Green and Brown. Don't dismiss Krylon as an option. It is very durable if you do multiple base coats, I've even soaked it with that nasty Gun Scrubber spray and it still looks new.

[ray1970]

To those of you who have posted pictures of your camo jobs....

you guys have some mad skills with a spray can.

[BadShot]

DuckTape&550Cord dude that's damn near perfect.. folks tend to go over board and their paint jobs look like some sort of art show. You're cammo is what the concept is supposed to turn out like. Break up the outline and obvious form of the rifle so that from a reasonable distance it doesn't appear to be what it is.

Well Done..

So Ray.. what ya gonna do brother? And hey, if you want and don't mind swinging down to SE Aurora, I'd be happy to help you get your paint goin' .. I've got a ton of Krylon I don't mind sharing and you can get a better look at the 4 that I've got painted. Drop me a PM if you want to set up a time for that.

[DANGERTASTIC!]

Just finished painting this for a friend

[CMP_5.56]

Just finished painting this for a friend

What colors did you use on that one? I really like that camo job. And it looks like a great suburban camo, blends with that fence pretty damn good.

[DANGERTASTIC!]

Its my style of ATACS, it looks really similar against the ATACS jacket and pants.

I used FDE, Olive and Dark brown.

Thanks man

[TriggerHappy]

I have been thinking about attempting multicam on my 15-22. Anyone try it? With krylon.