today I'll be direct coding a few items and you can see that I've already done
my ar-15 I've been using this Duracoated ar-15 for a while I was trying to
go for the US Marines woodland digital MARPAT back here and this is actually
the a proper top right here and this is part of the ILB our ilbe backpack this
is the radio pouch you can see that the to almost match up and this is nowhere
near but it actually does a pretty good job it's just difficult to get the
colors to align just by guessing looking at the the Laur weaponry catalog and
nobody that I've seen has a good list of what colors work to actually make this
this camouflage happen so maybe someday I'll try again try some different colors
see what I can do but for now it actually works pretty darn well this is
the actual dirt coat product I believe this is an 8 ounce bottle and these
three right here are four ounce bottles this right here is the hardener it's a
it's a two-part process it's kind of like an epoxy and this is the main color
that we'll be using with some fixes this is what they call tactical coyote brown
and it is very light one thing that really annoys me with accessories and
all the different parts out there right now is that pretty much anything can be
called tactical coyote brown or coyote brown coyote tan it's all the same stuff
but the colors just rained all over the place this is supposed to be coyote
some of this stuff on here is supposed to be coyote nothing matches up at all
and this is really really light so I'm gonna have to darken it up a little bit
with the brown I'll show you that but this is the actual product that we'll be
working with to apply it I'll be using an airbrush here this is just the nice
crafts I think it's Pasha is the name of the
the company that makes this it's just a nice airbrush hooks up to an
air compressor and has a couple different size tips for different flow
rates and different kind of sizes we will need some measuring spoons in order
to measure out the product that we'll be applying and then everything goes in the
jars to clean up afterward well this is for cleaning up beforehand brake parts
cleaner I need to get oil off everything and then I'll be using lacquer thinner
to clean everything up later because this stuff is tough and it requires a
really really nasty solvent to get everything clean later powering the
airbrush is something that's a little bit more heavy-duty than what's needed
this is a Dayton speed air compressor and it's a kind of a commercial model
pretty heavy-duty but it's going to do the job just great in order to make sure
that the high-pressure that this thing can generate doesn't explode the
airbrush and all of its little parts I have a regulator so this should regulate
everything - I think it's supposed to be 15 pounds per square inch I'll to go
back and check but this is already set up so it'll work properly and finally
since we're working with nasty aerosol chemicals how about some safety
yeah it should pretty much cover it no yeah what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna
take my silencer here and I'm going to hose it down with some brake cleaner
just to get any oils that might be on it off
tactical coyote Brown is too light for me
woodland Brown is too dark so I'm gonna mix these two together and obviously
about half and half on this like I have been doing on the rest of the project
and that'll be my base coat I'll be starting right here this is a spot that
I had covered by tape when I first did the bear coat on this this is under my
gas block which is kind of a two parter here so I'm just gonna touch this up a
little bit get rid of that shine the really nice thing about using an
airbrush like this is that you can see it's pretty precise even though I've
painted all this stuff four different colors like green and whatever it's
really not being affected I'm able to point it right at what I want to paint
the next spot I want to do is this sling attachment I added that after the fact
so I just want to touch it up a little bit and again I don't want to screw up
the other paint job I have going on around there so I'll have to get him
pretty close to make sure I'm not spraying anything I don't want to
all right so that's one coat down on this and I'm just gonna leave it alone
for now I keep my coats nice and light even if I see a little shine snow coming
through one of the ways you can help keep this stuff very flat not shiny at
all is if you don't get to stick with each coat
now it's time to add some pattern and one of the things that I figured out
pretty quickly is that you can make gigantic patterns like this one and it's
just a huge pain to try to wrap it around an object like this much much
easier to just take a couple small ones and then you can combine these in
different ways you can just spray this one down come in put this next to it all
kinds of funky angles and you can get some really interesting designs that way
okay I'm pretty happy with how this has come out so far we have some decent
coverage with the woodland brown I have some on the the front here to kind of
break up the shape of this circle and before I move on to the green one of the
things that really sells this is if I take some very kind of high-frequency
you know a little tiny single dots and start spreading them around I'll show
you what that looks like
you can see how that breaks up the shapes quite a bit it's kind of like
anti-aliasing gives them kind of soft edges
and this may look a little weird right now but once we get the green and the
the lighter tan in place this is gonna look pretty good and here it is with
some green you see that's something to break it up nicely now we get some light
splatters on here and it should end up pretty much the same as the ar-15 so
here's the finished product you can see how that light tan really breaks this
thing up and it's gonna mesh pretty well with this even though I got that base
tan wrong you can see that it's darker than the base tan I had on here
and one thing to note you see how light this tan color is right here it's
considerably lighter than the the tan on this this box here that is tactical
coyote brown so it's one thing to keep in mind when you're shopping for colors
from Laur weaponry whatever color you see on the website is probably going to
end up a good deal lighter when you actually get it home and spray something
with it I put a little texture on the Magpul sling adapter just kind of break
up its shape a little bit and that'll sit on the front rail of the rifle quite
nicely
and this is all pretty much ready to go it's going to take about three days to
harden I believe I'll go back and check the literature but yeah after three days
this should be ready to rock and everything's looking good
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