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Posted: 12/1/2011 3:20:13 PM EDT
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Hey guys, I got a miss matched stock on my ar15. It's od green I think and I was wondering if there is a paint code for the Magpul's foliage green so that I could match it to the rest of the stuff. Or heck for that matter if there isn't, were can I get OD green from?
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IMHO, it would be cheaper, take less time, and be less hassle to just buy the stock again in the right color, and put your other one up for sale.
If you can't find the stock in the appropriate color, your best option is to paint all of your furniture with the same color paint. At that point, you're not limited to trying to match a color, and you can choose from a lot more possible colors. |
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IMHO, it would be cheaper, take less time, and be less hassle to just buy the stock again in the right color, and put your other one up for sale. If you can't find the stock in the appropriate color, your best option is to paint all of your furniture with the same color paint. At that point, you're not limited to trying to match a color, and you can choose from a lot more possible colors. Best advice! |
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IMHO, it would be cheaper, take less time, and be less hassle to just buy the stock again in the right color, and put your other one up for sale. If you can't find the stock in the appropriate color, your best option is to paint all of your furniture with the same color paint. At that point, you're not limited to trying to match a color, and you can choose from a lot more possible colors. That's what I've come up with also. I'm at the point now where I'm trying to figure out what would be the best color for an Easter Conifer forest camo? I've sat and just looked at the color scheme in my local woods and it seems Brown, Dark Grey, and Green. But with that being said, I don't know what green would go best or If I should even do anything like this? thanks |
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IMHO, it would be cheaper, take less time, and be less hassle to just buy the stock again in the right color, and put your other one up for sale. If you can't find the stock in the appropriate color, your best option is to paint all of your furniture with the same color paint. At that point, you're not limited to trying to match a color, and you can choose from a lot more possible colors. That's what I've come up with also. I'm at the point now where I'm trying to figure out what would be the best color for an Easter Conifer forest camo? I've sat and just looked at the color scheme in my local woods and it seems Brown, Dark Grey, and Green. But with that being said, I don't know what green would go best or If I should even do anything like this? thanks You could use CamoPicker to help find the best colors. :) |
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IMHO, it would be cheaper, take less time, and be less hassle to just buy the stock again in the right color, and put your other one up for sale. If you can't find the stock in the appropriate color, your best option is to paint all of your furniture with the same color paint. At that point, you're not limited to trying to match a color, and you can choose from a lot more possible colors. That's what I've come up with also. I'm at the point now where I'm trying to figure out what would be the best color for an Easter Conifer forest camo? I've sat and just looked at the color scheme in my local woods and it seems Brown, Dark Grey, and Green. But with that being said, I don't know what green would go best or If I should even do anything like this? thanks You could use CamoPicker to help find the best colors. :) Hmm that's interesting. Though I chose the woodland 2 which is like a pine forest and it gave me black olive and green... didn't blend in well when I shrunk the rifle down and put it in the background. I'm gonna try to upload a picture of my standard area and see how it goes. |
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Hmm that's interesting. Though I chose the woodland 2 which is like a pine forest and it gave me black olive and green... didn't blend in well when I shrunk the rifle down and put it in the background. I'm gonna try to upload a picture of my standard area and see how it goes. Use the advanced visualization - it gives you more control over the coloring. The "simple" visualization will only use the first 6 of the 12 colors found. On the advanced, you can change the colors, and the order they're used. |
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Hmm that's interesting. Though I chose the woodland 2 which is like a pine forest and it gave me black olive and green... didn't blend in well when I shrunk the rifle down and put it in the background. I'm gonna try to upload a picture of my standard area and see how it goes. Use the advanced visualization - it gives you more control over the coloring. The "simple" visualization will only use the first 6 of the 12 colors found. On the advanced, you can change the colors, and the order they're used. Yeah I'm only looking at maybe 4 colors anyway. Don't want it to be busy. I know one is going to be pine tree brown lol, also match the pine straw everywhere lol. Figure Green, don't know if it would be od green or what. Wish this thing would print out stencils, would make it a lot easier. |
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Hmm that's interesting. Though I chose the woodland 2 which is like a pine forest and it gave me black olive and green... didn't blend in well when I shrunk the rifle down and put it in the background. I'm gonna try to upload a picture of my standard area and see how it goes. Use the advanced visualization - it gives you more control over the coloring. The "simple" visualization will only use the first 6 of the 12 colors found. On the advanced, you can change the colors, and the order they're used. Yeah I'm only looking at maybe 4 colors anyway. Don't want it to be busy. I know one is going to be pine tree brown lol, also match the pine straw everywhere lol. Figure Green, don't know if it would be od green or what. Wish this thing would print out stencils, would make it a lot easier. Well, the intent of the program isn't really to provide patterns, it's to help you make a better color selection. BTW, if you only want to use four colors, Take the matching factor down to 2 (the default is 3). When you select a factor of 2, you only get four colors. Then, when you go into advanced visualization, it will automatically set more than one layer to the same color. |
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cool, how would you choose your base color? Typically, the base color is the lightest of the colors in your palette. The program doesn't make this choice for you - it simply applies the colors found in the image to the layers, and at that point, you can change the color to anything you want. The color matching code is just a way to get you pushed in the right direction as far as color selection goes. In the advanced visualization form, you can pick any color available within the currently selected paint system. |
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so it Tan and Foliage was in the mix along with a darker green and a brown, the Tan would be first, then the foliage, then the darker green, then the Brown I was wondering why all the video's of the people painting their guns always started in tan. Yeah, you essentially want to alternate light/dark/light/dark and so on. I don't know if you've discovered this yet, but when you go to the advanced form, and look at the available colors, you'll see that the colors found in your environment photo are grouped at the top of the list, and all of the other colors in the paint system are listed after the colors that were found. This helps you know what the environment colors were and makes it easier to pick them for the various layers. |
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so it Tan and Foliage was in the mix along with a darker green and a brown, the Tan would be first, then the foliage, then the darker green, then the Brown I was wondering why all the video's of the people painting their guns always started in tan. Yeah, you essentially want to alternate light/dark/light/dark and so on. I don't know if you've discovered this yet, but when you go to the advanced form, and look at the available colors, you'll see that the colors found in your environment photo are grouped at the top of the list, and all of the other colors in the paint system are listed after the colors that were found. This helps you know what the environment colors were and makes it easier to pick them for the various layers. Oh sweet. didn't know that. I'm wondering if people sometimes just paint their furniture... such as the mag's, grips, stock, and say a f.f. rail? I just don't know how I would feel about painting the whole rifle ... if nothing else that would let me just repaint later etc. I'd hate to ruin my rifle ya know. |
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I'm wondering if people sometimes just paint their furniture... such as the mag's, grips, stock, and say a f.f. rail? I just don't know how I would feel about painting the whole rifle ... if nothing else that would let me just repaint later etc. I'd hate to ruin my rifle ya know. Well, black isn't considered a naturally occurring color in nature, and straight lines aren't exactly mother nature's favorite thing either. An appreciable amount of black would be highly visible.in a natural setting, so at the very least, you should paint your receivers and barrel a more natural color. A number of people start with flat dark earth or something close to that shade of tan/brown. However, the majority of camo jobs I've seen are whole-rifle paint jobs, including optics. just be thorough with the pre-paint cleaning and masking, and you should be good to go. If you think you need practice, pick up slab of sheet aluminum at home depot, and practice on that. Once you get comfortable, dismantle and clean your rifle, mask it off, and shoot some colors on it. |
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