DIY gun finishes; camo test

[Koolbak]

Those are nice. Templates?

 

[Ben B.]

Those are nice. Templates?

If this is at me, I tore masking tape in irregular strips and stuck it on the places I wanted to leave black. I did alternating stripes of tan and light green. I hit a few spots with brown or OD. I pulled off the tape and later added the white highlights with a Q tip. I tried to break up the outline with the black parts, and later used white to disrupt the black parts and in other areas to experiment. The whole thing was just messing around to see what happened, cheap fun on a Saturday night after a few beers type deal.

Before the white highlights they looked like this.

 

[Koolbak]

Cool. Mine were in the driveway, with beers

 

[DeepSpace]

Do the turits get taped? They appear normal. Never done this but looks fun.

 

[Ben B.]

Only tape the turrets if you like using the number markings.

 

[DeepSpace]

Thanks. What about a release, of which carefully done would cover lens? I did a rustoleum on a bare lower. Scratches easily.

 

[Ben B.]

Tape newspaper over the lenses, if you don't have lens caps. I use flip up lens caps or the bikini covers.

 

[MymuttBear]

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Did I miss a spot?

When in the military we used to do yearly exercises on securing our flightline from enemy attack.

The scenario lasted two days and we had to cam up. One of the guys used his cam to draw a bullseye on his face, the Sgt in charge came up to him and said:
"you're not taking this seriously are you?"