DIY rattle can camo

[killianak9]

Looks great Ray, nice job

[ray1970]

Love that! What was the technique?

Kind of hard to explain. Painted it solid tan. Then kind of striped it with the darker brown. Then everywhere it was tan I held a hokey stencil thing I made that was supposed to sort of look like vegetation and sprayed over it with the dark brown. Then stenciled over the dark brown parts and hit them with a bit of the tan.

Im going to put an add up and see if I can pick up a couple of cheap stocks to practice on. I came up with some other ideas while I was doing this and want to try them out.

[ray1970]

Thanks to forum member "driver", I have another stock to practice on.



And here it is after the initial base coat.



And after the other base colors were applied.



Definitely not finished by any means. If I can't finish it this weekend I hope to do it next weekend.

[driver]

[Zach O]

Kind of hard to explain. Painted it solid tan. Then kind of striped it with the darker brown. Then everywhere it was tan I held a hokey stencil thing I made that was supposed to sort of look like vegetation and sprayed over it with the dark brown. Then stenciled over the dark brown parts and hit them with a bit of the tan.

Im going to put an add up and see if I can pick up a couple of cheap stocks to practice on. I came up with some other ideas while I was doing this and want to try them out.

thats about out what I did with an AR. I took aspen leaves, pine tree needles and laid them on the rifle and painted over them. I thought it came out ok. When it was dry, I coated it with a non-reflective clear coat.

[ray1970]

Did some more. Need to let this side dry good and then do the other side.

[ray1970]

Took a couple of pictures of the finished stock. Now I need to find something else to practice on.

[cstone]

I have a Savage tupperware stock you can practice on. I'm sure there is a lunch in there for your effort

I am thinking about trying to stiffen it up some until I have the money for the XLR chasis.

[ray1970]

I have a Savage tupperware stock you can practice on. I'm sure there is a lunch in there for your effort

I am thinking about trying to stiffen it up some until I have the money for the XLR chasis.

I might take you up on that. You might want to do whatever stiffening you want before I paint it.

[wctriumph]

Pretty cool. Nice job.