(00:00) Hi, Caleb from Brownells here back again with another installment of how to paint
your gun. So today, we're going to be going over camo patterns, how to do camo patterns,
some of the methods that I use, not necessarily the only way, just some of the easier ways,
and something you may benefit from. So, some materials we're going to be using here,
well first, let's just do a quick brief overview of PPE. I'm wearing gloves, got a respirator with
filters as well as particulate filters, and of course, some eye protection and good ventilation.
(00:42) We talked about why to use Alumahyde II, all the other preparation work, how to just get
your base layer on, and just basic stuff like that. In the last episode of painting the gun,
we did just use larger pieces. If you want to paint smaller pieces,
one of the big challenges you'll run into with that is going to be how to hold those pieces. We
did a video which I will drop into this playlist on using cardboard for holding small parts.
(01:19) If you were to just jump on YouTube and type in how to paint your gun, you'll see everyone
for camo pattern is using a netting, like just any kind of netting they can find. That's awesome,
that's some really good material. I have a couple of things here. This is just, what was this,
this was a freezable fun pops bag. Once your kids eat all the freezable fun pops, or you know,
I'm not judging, I like fun pops, you can use the bag as netting. Basically, you would just hold
this over and spray over it, keeping in mind that everywhere the netting is touching is going to be
your base color and everywhere there's a hole is going to be whatever color you're spraying.
(02:55) Stencils, there's a ton of different stencils out there. You can just like jump
online and do like camo stencils. You can even find like multicam kits that are layered. You
do like one layer, spray your colors, peel those off, do another layer, spray your colors. You can
do a bunch of different camo patterns that way, multicam, whatever. You can buy those stencils,
and you can make your own. Something I've used in the past for making stencils is
the Silhouette Cameo 2. It's something all your crafty people out there are using to make vinyl
stencils and vinyl stickers and stuff, but you can use that to make stencils for this as well.
(03:55) There are two ways to cure Alumahyde II. There's two different times you can spray other
coats on Alumahyde II. That's 30 minutes within the application of the first coat,
or after it's completely cured. If you're doing stick-on stencils, I would recommend
waiting until it's completely cured, then do your stick-on stencils. Once Alumahyde II is cured,
it's solvent resistant. Taping, whatever, is not going to peel anything up. You can take acetone,
wipe it with acetone, and it's not going to be able to get it off.
(05:23) We're going to get ready for our camo coats. Other ways to do camo pattern,
this is what we're going to be using today, this is just shipping paper. It's just paper,
just brown paper, and I tore it into strips. That's what we're going to be
using today. You can use anything, you know, newspaper or whatever,
it'll work just fine. I'm going to be using that with a little bit of masking tape.
(06:18) This came with the Alumahyde I had shipped over from the warehouse to
do this video series. What I'm going to do at this point is I'm basically just going to be
taking this here and wrapping it around, then I'll tear it off and then tape it,
and then do that on a few different places on this receiver here,
and that's going to be your camo pattern. What we're actually going to do once I have this on,
we're going to be spraying through the netting, so it's going to be an interesting contrast.
(07:18) Plan out your camo patterns. If you're actually trying to camouflage your gun,
what are you trying to camouflage it like? What's the environment? You can even take like,
you can grab like dry, dead, or you know, alive foliage from where you're going to be at, hold
it up there, use that as your stencil and spray on it. You can pull a piece off of that happy little
tree and use that. There's going to be several more Bob Ross references throughout this thing.
(08:09) We're going to go nice and smooth and clean to a disrupted pattern and then
back to smooth and clean and just kind of alternate that. So that's what we're going for,
and that's what we're going to do. Now, if you notice, I'm spraying my receiver
assembled or somewhat assembled. I attached the handguard to the upper,
and I'm just using some aluminum pins here to keep my upper and lower together.
If you don't have that, just stick a wooden dowel in there, and that's fine.
(10:56) Alumahyde II goes on super thin, so it's not an issue unless you're doing, you know, two,
three, four coats. Let's go ahead and put our paper on, and we'll go from there. We have our
camo pattern placed on here, and as you can see, it's nothing too crazy, nice and easy.
I just took those strips, wrapped them around, and secured them to themselves with a piece of
masking tape. You can just take the paper, hold it up, and just spray on it like that. However,
I like doing it this way to get everything covered because if you're just holding it up and spraying,
you run the risk of having overspray in the area that you're trying to cover up on the next one.
(12:24) You don't have to do the exact pattern I did. You can do, if you want
like cross angles going across, all you need to do is just tear your paper at an angle,
and you'll end up with something you can do that way, super easy. Do whatever you want,
you don't have to copy me. Go out on a limb because that's where the fruit is.
Let's just keep going through it. I think now from here, we're just going to start spraying.
(14:06)
As I was spraying this, I posted the camo netting up here and just kind of had it loose
on there because I want the camo netting to kind of fade in and out and not be consistent all the
way around. If you do want the camo netting to be consistent all the way around, you need to
make sure you wrap it tight. You'll be able to see a real define there, it's far away here,
so you may not be able to see it at all because I was spraying from different angles. The point is,
it's going to kind of fade in and out, and that's the effect we were kind of going for there.
(16:27) We're going to let this dry for about 30 minutes or so, we're going to remove everything,
then we're going to throw it in the oven. If you wanted to do a different color,
another layer or something like that, give it about 10 minutes,
let everything just kind of dry to the touch. Don't actually touch it, just kind of eyeball it,
it shouldn't be super glossy. So, you know, 10 minutes or so, then you can go
over with another color. If you wanted to do another color, about another 10 minutes or so,
and then you can do that other color. That's about the maximum you can do because we don't want to
be 30 minutes over our first coat. Remember, because of science, it won't adhere properly.
(17:54) I'm going to speed cure it in the oven. I don't want to come back and do this, you know,
10 to 14 days from now. So, I'm going to speed cure it in the oven. I'm going to
get this gun back together, and then we'll show the completed gun because it would be
a shame to cut everything off right here. I'll see you when we have a completed gun.
(18:21) We got our gun painted, cured, and put back together,
and here is the end result. As you can see, everywhere that we had paper was left wolf gray,
and then the netting, since it was kind of not super tight against the gun,
it kind of waves in and out. Like some areas, it's really defined,
other areas it's not, and it came out great. It's kind of exactly what we were looking for.
(18:46) That concludes it. In the near future, we'll be adding some stuff to the playlist, like
how to paint optics. Spoiler alert, it's just tape everything off and then don't bake it. But we'll
get more into it than that. And then, you know, whenever I have another project I want to do,
I'll just do it on camera instead of just doing it with the cameras off. If you have any questions
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