First camo for the rifle:
Saw some neat stuff in my searches. Nothing tripped my trigger. Plus they all looked expensive
I've had some of my own idea so I decided to learn some techniques.
Kids went together and got me an air brush for Christmas.
Never painted anything in my life except houses and fences and didn't do good job at those.
Watched the video, sprayed water all over the place for quite a while. Scrounged up some arts & crafts paint that didn't work for squat but at least it came out of the brush.
Then I scrounged around the internet for a pattern I wanted. Found on the hide of a zebra. Brought that into photo shop stretched, enlarged, focused on areas and printed. Then cut out the shapes.
Had a clunker plastic REM stock that some one had dinked with leaf patterns on. Think the thing cost me 25 bucks.
Layed out the pattern on the butt end. By the time I got to the trigger guard I was drawing the pattern free hand on the masking tape. Then cut out where I wanted paint to go.
All of this was to just prove the concept.
Took about 10 hours to get the pattern on the stock. Then in my typical fashion it took about 10 min to slap some color on it.
School bus yellow was what the wife had laying around. Pretty poor paint but heck I didn't care. Just wanted to see if I was headed in the right direction.
The below pic shows where I am heading.
Learned - don't use masking tape.
- don't tape over checkering
Learn to paint
What about colors. Been thinking about Pgh Steeler colors and a steelers logo on the cheek piece. yea, right!