Wife's watching the Oscars, so I'm painting my rifle.. tips?

[LRS_Ranger]

Well, since my wife is filling her head with mindless drivel, I've decided to put some camo on the rifle. Been planning on it for a while, just never found the motivation to potentially screw it up. But due to excessive boredom, I have decided to do it.
First I laid down a tan base coat. Next I'm planning on using OD green and flat earth to put grass and leaves on it. The grass should be pretty easy to paint on, any idea for the leaves? The grass I am going to use pieces of straw tied together and spray over it with OD green. How would I go about putting some leaves in the pattern. How 'bout some lighter green leaves/ferns? Stencil? Thanks for the help!!

BTW it's a FN SPRA1.. The group I just blasted out what I had left over in the range box, so it's not the best grouping. I just threw it up here for the heck of it. 6 rounds at 100m, damn flyer.

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

Good looking rifle! I've never camouflaged a rifle before, so I can't offer any advice, but I'd love to see some photos of it between coats of paint and after you've finished. What kind of paint are you using?

KR

 

[patsygarret]

for leaves, grass and ferns i have always used the "greenery from artificial flowers and plants. just hold them to the gun and spray. perfect stencil.

 

[LRS_Ranger]

I'm just using Krylon. We paint our helmets and rifles and such, but in the past I've just done 2 colors with leaves and foilage as my "stencil" my helmet I just use mesh and do a "snakeskin" pattern. I'm interested in the input for how to put a 3rd or 4th color in it. Come to think of it I've never thought too much when I painted my duty rifle.. this is my baby so I'm really obsessing over it. I'll post more pix as the project comes together...

 

[Old Shooter]

[QUOTEWife's watching the Oscars, so I'm painting my rifle.. tips?
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Enjoy the peace and quiet.

I am

 

[LRS_Ranger]

patsygarret, thanks for the response! That is what I am doing with grass. If I paint over the light color with a darker color, it will make the appearance of dry grass. Should be pretty cool. It would be cool to put in some lighter green in there too, just not too sure how to go about it. Maybe just dust it with 3 colors instead of the one. Who knows, it's a work in progress.. I'm as interested as anyone else to see what comes of it. I'm not at all artistic.

 

[swiftak]

My wife asked me if I wanted to watch the Oscars, and I said I'd rather smash my hand with a hammer.

 

[Al LaVodka]

Change wives sooner rather than later?
Al

 

[mshootnit]

I don't have any tips but if you do a hell of a job I might send you one of mine for a coat or two!!

 

[ar10]

I told mine I suffered from IBS, so I'm up here reading THR

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

My wife asked me if I wanted to watch the Oscars, and I said I'd rather smash my hand with a hammer.

I said I'd rather have teeth pulled. She responded that that could be arranged.

KR

 

[Morph]

Yes. I have a great tip. When you're done painting the rifle, shoot the television, LOL.

Worst scourge every perpetrated upon mankind. That's what hobbies like shooting and hunting are for. Constructive leisure time.

 

[LRS_Ranger]

I'll get more spray paint tomorrow, and I will post pix when I am done..

 

[AzBuckfever]

I kryloned my remington a while back. Made like a snake skin pattern using netting. I'll probably be doing the same thing except mixing it up with some black webbing spray or something. We'll see. Anyway, looked pretty cool (I thought). I thought I had pics but after searching, can't find any. Oh well.

There's a thread of show us your reloading benches....What about show us your rifles or painted rifles?

 

[Tom609]

Sitting here with Mrs. K9 doing the same thing. It's not my favorite form of entertainment either, but I've got this thing for Penelope Cruz

 

[jpwilly]

I did this to my "Mosstrocity" (Mossberg ATR 30-06) not too long ago. Two colors, Tan and Brown Krylon:

 

[LiveLife]

Change wives sooner rather than later?

My wife helps me reload as she likes to shoot. She doesn't watch Oscars.

Is she a keeper?

 

[Birddog1911]

You sound like your on a good path. The hardest part about painting a rifle is getting over the trepidation of actually doing it. And if you mess it up, it's easy to fix; spray over it, or strip it right off!

 

[Snakum]

I paint all my 'working guns' with Krylon's camo paint and three or four coats of matte clear over it. I find it to be very tough paint once hardened fully (7 days). While testing various patterns against the pine, oak, and tall grass we found that larger woodland patterns worked best for concealment and for breaking up the outline in hardwoods. While solid tan worked better in the sandhills with scrub pines and light sand everywhere, and solid OD worked best in shaded tall pines. It seemed to us that a tight woodland camo pattern at 100 yards tended to become a dark blob, while more lighter areas with fewer splotches broke it up better.