camo paint jobs?

[ecmbowhunter]

has anyone ever done a camo paint job themselves?......NOT camoclad...i'm talking paint......if so how did you go about doing it, and do you have pics?.....i recently acquired a '84 yamaha ytm200 3wheeler and am doing camo paint as we speak and just want some suggestions...i have scuffed all the plastic and primed with plastic primer and a base coat of flat black.......i may be taking the wrong route, but i want a darker camo look.....i would have gone the camoclad route but it would cost more than i have in the thing already........tips anyone?

[Multidigits]

Go to a Army Surplus store near a army base and get the paint, or you can buy it from Mack's Prairre Wing ot other waterfowl hunter supply stores. Spray it on with a pattern. You can buy stencials or make them.

[nutcase]

I just throw a big piece of burlap over my ATV when parked. My camo jobs have always looked pretty bad. Dont paint it too well or your wife may want the house done next.

[quackrstackr]

http://cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/horizontal-pod.jhtml?id=0005697&navAction=push&navCount=6&indexId=cat540015&parentId=cat540015&parentType=index&rid=&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fcatalog%2Fpod-link.jhtml_A&_DAV=MainCatcat20712

They had the stencils on sale a couple of weeks ago for $19. My hunting boat was painted with the shadowgrass stencils and looked fantastic before the sun faded it out. Still looks good when it's wet.. haha.

Not sure if you'll ever get paint to stick to the plastic very well, even though you did scuff it.

If I think about it I'll take some pics when I get home (if it's not pouring down rain).

[GSP]

I saw a camo job that was done on a rifle stock that was first class! The guy spray painted the base layer with the dark coat and then used a limb from a Hemlock tree as his stencil. He oversprayed the limb and ended up with a great lookoing camo job. It is a one of a kind. If you go that route, buy you a couple of $1 cans of spray paint and practice. It ain't that hard.

[ecmbowhunter]

i have had thoughts about painting on plastic not working well, but i did find a plastic primer that is supposed to bond with it....who knows.....the plastic on it was really rough anyway, like kinda dry rotted on the surface....i sanded it off fairly well and it left almost an etched feel to it so it's not slick at all

[quackrstackr]

From my experience using it to paint decoys last fall.... don't waste your money on that Krylon fusion paint that is supposedly made to bond to plastic. That stuff flaked off faster than the cheap $1 Wal Mart brand does.

I hear latex house paint does pretty good on plastic (decoys) although I haven't tried it yet. I did paint the vinyl shutters on my house though and they are holding up well.

[ecmbowhunter]

i didnt get the krylon fusion stuff....all they had in it was gloss......not sure right now what brand the primer was.....lol...(i left the can outside and it's pouring down rain now)

[quackrstackr]

Here's a picture of the boat I did with those Reelfoot camo stencils. Looked a lot better about 6 years ago when I first painted it.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v688/quackrstackr/101_0112.jpg

[GSP]

I saw a camo job that was done on a rifle stock that was first class! The guy spray painted the base layer with the dark coat and then used a limb from a Hemlock tree as his stencil. He oversprayed the limb and ended up with a great lookoing camo job. It is a one of a kind. If you go that route, buy you a couple of $1 cans of spray paint and practice. It ain't that hard.

:D
A retraction.
I talked with the guy that did the rifle stock. He used a small fern leaf, not a hemlock.

[skin_dog1]

This is the method I was gonna recomend. It works well and gives a pretty realistic appearance(although it ain't mossyoak!). When painting duck blinds in the marsh in CA I used a few sprigs of cattails instead of the fern leaf. The fern leaf gives a neat appearance with liots of light and dark areas.:D
A retraction.
I talked with the guy that did the rifle stock. He used a small fern leaf, not a hemlock.

[N2MyWake]

This is the method I was gonna recomend. It works well and gives a pretty realistic appearance(although it ain't mossyoak!). When painting duck blinds in the marsh in CA I used a few sprigs of cattails instead of the fern leaf. The fern leaf gives a neat appearance with liots of light and dark areas.

I used the same idea on the feeders I built, and on homemade deerstands. I just grab whatever leaves I can find (usually a branch with 4-5 leaves on it so they're all facing differently). It works pretty good, like you said "it ain't mossy oak".