Woodland's Rifle Paint schemes

[dman]

Hey there,

I'm considering painting my M4 in a woodland's type of paint scheme. When I say woodland's, I'm not really talking about the actual camo pattern, but a paint scheme that would be good in a wooded environment. So far all I've found are a few pictures through google:






I haven't really found a design that I really like, and I'm not too keen on putting layer after layer of paint on my M4 using the "trial-and-error" method. I'm hoping that if any of you have some rifles or guns that are painted in camo schemes good for woodland type environments you can post up some pictures to help me get some ideas. One thing I should mention is that I really do not like the "leaf" camo schemes where a leaf is super-imposed onto the rifle. I don't want a "hunter" style paint scheme, but more of something you might actually see a soldier using in a wooded environment.

I do really like a lot of the desert paint schemes I've seen, but unfortunately that'll make my gun stand out like crazy, and that's exactly why I'm painting it (the solid black seems to be a dead give away). If all else fails, I'll probably go with the first picture, or just solid OD green.

Thanks in advance.

[mcguyver]

one guy on our team bought "camo" paint from crappy tire i think. painted 1 gun as a trial and liked so much he painted 4 more. didn't take him long either. the paint doesn't adhere the "best" and i think it could always be removed.

check out our site www.skunkworxairsoft.com i think there are pictures in the gallery of them and also in the forum.

[The Stallion]

What I did was paint my M4 in a base cost of OD, then went back and painted on some different shades of brown, mostly dark ones, some darker greens, a couple yellow-green lines, and some black here and there. When I started paintind in the other colours, I just either put in bolts of colour, mainly on the body, or wavy lines, mostly on the fore-grip and barrel. What you want to keep in mind is that before you start to paint, go out to where you play the majourity of your games, and decided the dominant colours that are present, and use those on your gun. Also, try to through in either some brownish reds or yellowish greens to compensate for when the falls seaon comes around and leaves start to change colour. Also, be creative with your patterns and scheme, mix up the colours to the best of your ability. Before I painted my gun, I headed out to Home Depot and bought a piece of black PVC piping, and just practiced on it which pattern would look the best out where I played. I found that this worked very well, becaus ethe original pattern that I was going to paint my gun stuck out like a sore thumb where i usually play. So find something to practice on, then when you feel you have the best pattern, paint her up.

Good luck, in painting man!

Hope to see some pics soon!

Note: I don't have any pics to show you because I do not have a digital cam, but I will try to take some pics with my friends cam and send them to you.

[JoeyJackhammer]

Go here for DIY

[HellRanger]

I just painted 2 of our riffles.
Here is a picture, I hope you can see well enough:
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/gallery...7_original.jpg

If you want PM with your email addy and I will send you more.
I can also explain how I did it, it's fairly simple.

Cheers

[CDN_Stalker]

M24 works really well, and blends nicely with cadpat, so chances are it'd work well with woodland. The M700 looks different now, in the pics the paint was less that a day old. Now that it's fully dried and cured, it's darker and looks a lot better, closer to the M24 stock.

[SINN]

Here is my M4 with some Fall Colours..works great with a mix of tall dead grass etc.

http://www.airsoftcanada.com/gallery...p?imageid=1890

[dman]

Thanks for all the replies guys.

mcguyver: Was the camo paint the Kyrlon camo paint? If so, I have those but would most likely use my airbrush, considering I've invested so much into it. I checked out the photo gallery and was able to find the picture you were talking about. Thanks.

The Stallion: Thanks for the tip about getting a PVC tube and trying it on that first. I think I will do that.

JoeyJackhammer: Thanks for the link, I had seen that before but that is probably helpful to those wanting to know how to paint these camo schemes. I'm not concerned with that, I've done lots of painting before, just can't find the right camo scheme to actually paint.

HellRanger: Bingo! That's actually kind of the style I was looking for. The person on the left. I'll fire off a PM so that hopefully I can get a better picture of that M4. Looks very nice.

CDN_Stalker: Thanks for the pictures, I can see how the M24 blends in nicely with cadpat (of which I do have) but I'm trying to stay away from the "leafy" designs.

SINN: That's actually a pretty interesting design, but I'm still hard pressed on going after a design that you'd see a soldier using. Btw: here's the link to your picture: http://www.airsoftcanada.com/gallery...7_original.jpg

Thanks again guys, and if you or anyone else has anymore tips/pics please keep them coming.

[CDN_Stalker]

Ya, the leafy pattern I'm not crazy about either, but the cedar leaf I did is different and cool. But for an M4, making it look like that would be screwy. At least you have an M4 that looks awesome with just about any type of paintjob, but try figuring out how to paint an MP5 to make it look cool as well........... a LOT different!

Good luck!

[dman]

Just an update.

I did finally paint my M4, and I'm pretty happy with the results. My only concern is how well the paint job will last after some field use.

I've uploaded the picture to the ASC Gallery:
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/gallery...hp?i=1994&c=10
It's hard to tell from the image, but it is a mixture of OD Green/Khaki/Brown. The green didn't show up too well in the picture, because it was taken indoors. This weekend I'll be able to take some pictures of it outdoors.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions and gave tips, it really did help me track down the type of camo scheme I wanted to use.

[Dro]

Looks pretty good dman .. It kinda looks like the paint scheme in America's Army (the game), especially with that ACOG scope

[dman]

God damn... took me a good minute to gain the will power to stop looking at your avatar...

ANYWAY, I haven't seen that paint scheme. Probably would've helped while painting this thing. But overall I'm pretty happy anyway.

[HellRanger]

Can I get some credit? :lol:

Dman, you made me proud. I guess you really liked my paint job.
:tup:

Originally Posted by dman

Just an update.

I did finally paint my M4, and I'm pretty happy with the results. My only concern is how well the paint job will last after some field use.

I've uploaded the picture to the ASC Gallery:
http://www.airsoftcanada.com/gallery...hp?i=1994&c=10
It's hard to tell from the image, but it is a mixture of OD Green/Khaki/Brown. The green didn't show up too well in the picture, because it was taken indoors. This weekend I'll be able to take some pictures of it outdoors.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions and gave tips, it really did help me track down the type of camo scheme I wanted to use.

[dman]

Hey HellRanger,

I forgot to mention it in my post, but it is there in the description for the image.

[HellRanger]

Was just yanking your chain, I'm happy that the info I provided was clear enough for you to reproduce something similar to mine.

I will try to get better pics of ours and pics of my M16 or 733 with the Desert paint job using the same process.


Cheers budd, show it off with pride.

Originally Posted by dman

Hey HellRanger,

I forgot to mention it in my post, but it is there in the description for the image.