Digital Paint jobs : A basic how-to.

right, basically this is the method that i used to paint my bar10. The following example will be a type of desert digital, but it will be relatively simple to achieve the same result in ACU or Woodland etc.....
Right, the materials you will need:

Page from maths book or graph paper for more precision/knife or scissors/Paint(krylon is preferable, but they are quite hard to find now. Duracoat of Plasticoat are alternatives)

Cut out some templates. (you can use the same templates twice, but i find the bigger the rifle, the more templates are necessary) i usually use darker paints further into the process.

the darker the paint that you are using, the smaller the template.

second, spray the object a base colour. (sand for deset/green for woodland)

Let it dry for about 15mins. also be sure to shake the paint for a good two mins before use.

when you have a good base coat, take your larger templates and lay then over the object, and apply med brown.(once you have sprayed, you can also move them around to achieve more shapes. Again, give it 15mins.



Once it is dry, take your smaller templates and dark brown, and begin to spray make sure there is less of the darker colours on the object.


And your finished!
another thing you can do after the the paint has dried (i personally do this with every gun i spray) is spray a very light layer of brown over the whole thing. it make the pattern a bit less striking and tones it down a bit.


COLOUR GUIDE:
desert=sand or khaki/med brown/dark brown
woodland=olive green/sand/med brown/dark brown
grassland=green/sand

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS MY PERSONAL METHOD OF PAINTING. THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO DOING SO WHICH ARE EASY TO FIND ON GOOGLE.
however, i am open to questions, and i hope you find this useful.

EDIT: another thing i have found with krylon, is that if you wait for 5 or 10 mins, the paint has joined together, but not much to the rifle itself, so if you want a battered look on your gun with thowing it out your window several times, use you fingernails to tear off some of the paint. this makes it look like it has seen amny a skirmish!

Thanks mate im spraying my m4 tomorrow and will put up pics when done

I thought you were selling your M4?

i am

You do know giving it a paint scheme will probably lessen the number of people it will be of interest to right?

owell im not really desperate to sell it anyway

hoe do you think you could do a CADPAT cammo pettern?

sniperiain wrote:

hoe do you think you could do a CADPAT cammo pettern?

Well cadpat is a form of digital camo but with a different colour scheme

http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/CADPAT_canadian_design.jpg

Looks to me like the colours are :

light green
med green
dark green
and light brown

sniperiain wrote:

hoe do you think you could do a CADPAT cammo pettern?

CADPAT is basically the same as other pixelated patterns, but with different colours.

im thinkin of doing this but in woodland what spray paint shall i use to tone it down abit

a VERY LIGHT layer of med brown.