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Posted: 7/31/2014 2:11:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: EagleArmsHBAR]
I have painted a few M14s with a tiger stripe pattern and it is quickly becoming my favorite pattern of camo to have on a rifle. I even prefer it to my sponge camo AR15. With the method I use to get the pattern, no tape or stencils are required because let's face it, stencils will make the paint have that weird feel to it when the colors border each other and sometimes the paint is on too thick.
Here are the colors I used on the rifles: Rustoleum Camouflage Kakhi Rustoleum Camouflage Deep Forest Green Rustoleum American Accents Satin Nutmeg (desert rifle only) Rustoleum Flat Brown Genaric Flat Black (woodland rifle only) Here are the two M14s I have done. One in desert and one in Woodland: Edit: pics are gone of the desert camo rifle. And my previous desert tiger striped LRB/TRW M14: Attached File Attached File Close ups to show the pattern. This is the best I can do with a step by step: Step 1: Choose a base color. In this case I used Kakhi Camo Attached File Step 2: Spray secondary color #1 on to a paper plate: Attached File Step 3: Use paintbrush to paint secondary color #1 on to the item: Attached File Step 4: Repeat step 3 but with secondary color #2: Attached File Step 5: Use a third secondary color to outline the areas where the primary and secondary colors 1 and 2 meet and then it will look something like this: Attached File Attached File All together pic now: Attached File Obviously if doing tiger stripe you want the secondary colors to run long ways on the item (parallel to the ground). The good thing is that if you don't like how it turns out, just hose it down with Break Free Powder Blast and the paint will immediately wetten, thin out, and almost drip off. Next up I will be doing an urban tiger stripe on a pistol gripped shotgun that I keep in my truck. Now that the tutorial is up, let's see what you can do! Here is an update on the desert M1A. I got to thinking the camo was too vivid in color since one of the colors I used was a satin instead of flat. So I decided to hit it with some CLP Powder Blast and a paper towel. This is the result: Attached File |
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I like it!
Well done. |
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Luke 3:11 Luke 22:36 Ignore Alien Orders |
Nice
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Good job, I can't bring myself to personally make the commitment to paint a rifle, but the Vietnam style tiger stripe has always been my favorite paint scheme. I think it is because my grandfather's BAR 30-06 has a plastic stock cover in that design and that was the rifle I grew up shooting at big game. Yours looks excellent and I really like how the shotgun turned out!
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Very cool. I'm a huge fan of the Vietnam tiger stripe camo. This was my first attempt. Used the duracoat, speckled and clear coated." />
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Originally Posted By DRAFT1: Very cool. I'm a huge fan of the Vietnam tiger stripe camo. This was my first attempt. Used the duracoat, speckled and clear coated.http://<a href=http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/DWGLIDE1/IMG_1395Large_zps9e689a33.jpg</a>" /> http://<a href=http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss260/DWGLIDE1/IMG_1396Large_zps896fcd64.jpg</a>" /> View Quote |
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Based on the three rifles I have painted so far, I think it works best if the base color is a medium color (not too light) because the color that is used for the outlining is best to be the lightest color. I did kind of the opposite of that with the desert camo scheme, so in hindsight I might have made different color choices.
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Did you happen to change your procedure away from the lightest to darkest like in your desert and woodlands tiger stripe for the urban tiger stripe by starting with the medium tone instead?
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Originally Posted By HeyCoach: Did you happen to change your procedure away from the lightest to darkest like in your desert and woodlands tiger stripe for the urban tiger stripe by starting with the medium tone instead? View Quote For the jungle tiger: Primary color: green Secondary color 1: brown Secondary color 2: black Outline color: light tan For the urban tiger: Primary color: light grey Secondary color 1: dark grey Secondary color 2: black Outline color: white |
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I will try this out tomorrow on a box I use for testing paint schemes and post my results.
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Cheesebeast: Throw in a few pics of the driveway too, please. Nothing gets me friskier than good drainage.
SiVisPacem:That's gayer than a Brony using a shotgun for HD. |
Wow those look great. I'm going to have to try this on a few rifles. Thank you for posting this tutorial.
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Yes very nice It looks amazing in the photos, how is the durability ? and kind of clear coat ?
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You Are What you Are !! ....Bill Parcels
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Nice work!
I just picked up a used Mossberg 590A1 and I'm debating painting the stock in an urban digital or tiger stripe. |
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Update in OP with subdued effect on the M1A paint.
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The original desert paint is outstanding. Beautiful.
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@EagleArmsHBAR
I came across this tutrial and am interested in maybe trying it. anyway to fix the pics in the OP |
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Sorry, the pics have been lost to time.
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Shame too, it was an outstanding job.
Curse PhotoBucket! |
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Carthago delenda est
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I have hosted some pics here on arfcom, but could not find all of the original pics to put back up.
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