going to camo those guns... want orange, & not lose the tacticool look

[masterhunter]

Just giving ya options..........

 

[Playboypenguin]

When the heck is that pink camo supposed to be useful? While infiltrating a "Hello Kitty" convention?

 

[L_Killkenny]

I painted a .22 blaze orange for the same reason you want to. I used the gun for coon hunting and was always leaning it against a tree or log when tying dogs back skinning the coon. I was always have to search for it afterwards.

First off, I think camo on rifles is overrated. I've seen a bunch of coyotes come charging in to unpainted, wood stocked guns. Even with movement from the shooter to get on target. So you might consider just getting some orange "vet wrap" and wrap part of your stock up to make it more visible to you.

I painted my yote gun because it was solid black. Stock and all. Here's a pic:

I used leaves to make templates. You could substitute orange for any of the colors on there and make it work without it being to obnoxious.

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

this is my 45 Colt +P Contender with Williams fiber optic ghost ring sights... the barrel is customized with a tighter chamber & target crown... the original front sight was silver soldered on, & the barrel is a left hand twist that was formerly chambered in 45 Win Mag... ( I used to have a 10" 45 Colt / 410... but wanted a better chamber for the 45 Colt round for hunting )

the action & barrel wears a Packy rubber grip & fore end for target / range use, but I've picked up this set of stock ( paintable ) rynite grip & fore end for hunting use...

this is the same gun with some paint program color added... I can't get the exact colors I'm after. but want to get a rough idea as to pattern & how it would look... I don't have a good darker green, & the black should be a flatter black maybe more grey... I'll have to tweak the colors, but I like how the orange stripes blend with the brown stripes between the metal & the plastic... I also thought the engraving would look fine with black sprayed into the recesses, then wiped off the high parts which would already be painted in that sectional color...

thoughts ???

 

[Kreyzhorse]

I've got to be honest, that color combo is just terrible.

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

thanks for the comments... again... I just used the standard colors in my paint program, & would be using "normal" camo colors in the painting of the gun, I'm just trying to get an idea of pattern, & relation to grip & gun after painted, the gun & grips would be clear coated in matt clear, & I'm sure I'll have to polish out any metal to metal contact points

& that is my 2nd attempt at doing this, the AR, I pretty much copied the pattern on the gun, this one is all freehand... as I refine the pattern, I'll import some more normal camo colors...

all the work involved in doing the gun, maybe I'm better off just parkerizing or some other non thickness corrosion resistant coating on the gun, & just adding a couple blaze orange stripes on the plastic ??? keeping it just flat black & blaze orange

 

[fbrown333@suddenlink]

I think you are on the right track ith the parkerizing and then adding the orange. It would be less work and would end in basicly the same results.

 

[masterhunter]

Theres always this.

 

[gunn308]

Check this out:
http://www.predatormastersforums.co...hp?Cat=0&Number=53087463&an=0&page=0#53087463
I've camoed my Mossy turkey gun but not sponged might do my Mini this way.

 

[Kreyzhorse]

Why not do something like this Alpine Pattern. The red color could be sub'd for orange.

http://www.by-the-sword.com/acatalog/Swiss_Military_M83_Camo_Jacket_New_MS803220.html

 

[hogdogs]

Some of those on P-Masters forum seem like what i was trying to describe. Some look real nice...
I wanted to do my el cheapo .22 savage in Florida camo kinda along this line...

with miniature palm frond shape cut into manilla folder but was afraid it would look too much like pot leaf.
Brent

 

[PredatorHunter]

Love your guns like your children. Would you send your kid to school like that?? DON'T DO IT! :barf:

 

[pmeisel]

Why not paint just the foreend and grip? Easily replaced if you hate it or want to sell. Easy to remove to touch up or repaint if you have to....

I would go with an orange and tan instead of green, that bright green contrasted with orange just does bad things to my head.

I like the truck!

 

[Hirlau]

Go With An Nature Design

Magnum,
Think about the environment you will be in. Make your weapon blend in with nature. A good graphic artist could use a design like this one and your Contender would appear to be just another work of nature.

 

[MikeGoob]

Found some cool patterns.

 

[impalacustom]

Here go to this website and do it right. http://www.hydro-dip.com/all_patterns.htm They have anything and everything you would want/need, plus the prices aren't bad.

 

[publius]

I think that if you must have some orange I would paint the stocks solid blaze orange and the metal camo. I think you will come out with a much better looking piece.

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

I'm kinda leaning towards black on the gun, & an orange camo pattern on the grips

since the guy does custom stuff maybe black with black ghost flames on the gun ( that would break up the outlines ) & blaze orange flames on the grips... if the flames were done right, it would be tightly striped like the tiger stripe camo pattern???

 

[MrCleanOK]

Am I missing something here? Why not just find some orange adhesive tape and stick it on the grips? Or some of that orange plastic tape they tie around the top of survey stakes, and tie or wrap some around the grip? When you don't want it, just rip it off.