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Offline 44 Man

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Camo AR15
« on: May 02, 2009, 06:43:38 AM »
When I was reading Lloyd's post about ordering a new gun, I saw ccoker's pic of his AR which he Camo'd himself.  Thinking 'I can do that', I went down to the hdw and picked up some cans of Forest green, Tan, and OD paint.  This is the result of an hour's work.  If it looks a little strange, it's because the trigger group is out of it at the moment.  It was fun and if I don't like it, all I need is some more flat black!  Here in Michigan, we have more greens to deal with, were I in Texas, I would add more brown and tan to it.  I would also like to see pic's of your camo jobs on your AR's.  44 Man



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Offline Lloyd Smale

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Re: Camo AR15
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2009, 07:30:47 AM »
looks sharp!
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Re: Camo AR15
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2009, 10:32:32 AM »
Thats pretty kick azz looking!  How did you do the pattern on it?  I am kinda curious about that as I have a couple of guns I would like to play around with this and see if I can pull off something that looks as good as it is functional.
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Re: Camo AR15
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2009, 10:53:11 AM »
That is good, I have a couple you can do with the extra brown and tan !   ;D
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Re: Camo AR15
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2009, 12:29:06 PM »
It really was easy.  They say to use the dark colors first then add the lighter shades on top.  I didn't do that.  I went down to the Dollar store and bought plastic flowers, one of fern leaves and another of tall grass.  The gun was black and I sprayed a fair amout of forest green and tan on that, leaving blotches of all three colors.  Then I held the plastic grass and one fern leaf over the gun and shot parts of it with O.D. green.  I turned out darker than I wanted so I took some cardboard and cut four long grass leave shaped cuts and sprayed some more tan and forest green through those as I held them over different parts of the gun.  You can't go wrong, just de-grease well before hand.  If you don't like what you get, just add some more of other colors.  Have fun and enjoy.  44 Man

Here's all I used.....


here's a close up.  Yes, I did the scope too!
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Re: Camo AR15
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2009, 05:11:23 PM »
That really looks like a professional job! It turned out great! Thanks for the pics!
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Re: Camo AR15
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2009, 05:18:22 AM »
great job
here's one of mine

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Re: Camo AR15
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2009, 10:57:55 AM »
Looks good 44man and ccoker.  I have a Poly Tech AK that I bought used that bubba painted.  I thought about trying to clean the paint off, but maybe I'll just try to fix bubba's work with a home camo job.  My only problem is that I don't know if my talent is any better than bubba's.
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