Camo painting project - Suggestions for improvement welcome

[tsellati]

Well, over the past few days I took on a camo painting project using my Savage Model 12FV rifle, Krylon Ultra Flat Camouflage Fusion paint, and digital tiger stripe stencils from TacticalCamo.

Here is how it looks so far.











I am generally pleased with how it came out, but, I would like specific suggestions on how I might improve upon what I have thus far. Should I fill in more of the open spaces, what colors should I use (I have not yet used black. The dark color on the rifle now is brown), add an additional color, etc.?

This is my first paint job so any suggestions for improvement are very welcome.

Tim

 

[BsChoy]

I think it came out well for your first time. I would suggest less is more to most people but I think you actually could use more in the way of additional stripes in the tan and dark brown. But its looks really good to me

 

[GarandOwner]

I agree very nice, I would suggest a few more browns and tans to help "break up" all that green, but it is a personal preference, also it depends on what colors your surrounding area is, make sure it blends in with them.

I especially like the detail and time you took around the knobs so that you can still clearly see the markings GREAT JOB!!

 

[Browning]

Digital Camo Suggestions

Wow, I think it came out REAL well.

The only suggestions that could make would be to add a few dots of black and brown here and there to break the pattern up a bit more because as it stands now all of the contrasting dots are in large clumps or clusters.

Something like this.

See how there are random individual dots in ones, two, threes and fours here and there? That breaks up the pattern a little bit more. If you decide to do it, just make sure you don't go overboard.

Even if you quit at this point it still looks really good.

 

[GreenFurniture]

Looks good, but like the others I would like to see more tan and brown and less green. Also the blue is a real "give away" unless you are using more gray and black.

 

[bannockburn]

tsellati

Nice job; looks like it was professionally done. But I would have to agree with the others who posted that you should probably break up more of the green with perhaps another shade of green, olive drab, or dark brown. I would also delete the blue pattern all together.

 

[tsellati]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I have decided to follow up on the advice and add a little more khaki and brown. I also will try deleting the "blue" which actually is the gray of the primer coat. I am learning that it is much more challenging to camo paint a rifle using the female stencils than it is the male stencils :banghead:.

Oh well, you live and learn.

Tim

 

[mtngunr]

Not truly suggesting you redo your camo job, which looks very nice as-is, but will post this reply as an alternate to those who want to play....in the Army, one thing I was always able to spot was the hard edge of weapons aimed our way, no matter how well camo'ed, as vertical straight lines in nature are rare....I recently bought a used 870 Police from a guy who specialized in 870 mods who had bought it from a Duracoat guy who'd painted it up for a demo...it had a unique "snakeskin" look that broke up the hard outline of the gun, much as digital camo does.....in fitting an extended mag tube (which remains unused), I played with various cheap rattlecans in trying to dupe the effect, with great success.....if you paint the object with a flat "battleship" grey, then wrap the object with expanded plastic or polyester mesh and spritz it with OD green and woodland green with a few light hits of yellow, all done in 45deg stripes, you end up with a nifty "scaled" pattern that makes the gun very low key in all situations, even in plain sight on textured grey upholstery....breaks up the outline exceedingly well.....Duracoat sells a $50 everything-you-need-including-air kit for a hardwearing one-color job....