How to Customize Camouflage

Camouflage needs to imitate the colors of the season, flora or urban decay where it is employed. The goal of effective camouflage is to hide the object or user so it seems to be part of the natural ebb and flow of the area. Depending on where you hunt, play paintball or observe wildlife, use colors and custom camouflage to blend with the region. Making custom camo requires studying the area, getting the proper colors and applying them to the objects to be hidden and shrouded.

Things You'll Need

  • Cardboard or poster board sheets
  • Cutters or utility knife
  • Painter's tape
  • Custom camouflage color spray paint -- flats
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Instructions

    • 1

      Take a series of pictures of the area you hunt or require camouflage in. Concentrate on the colors and flora. If the region is wetlands, take pictures of the sedge grasses and long reeds. If you are in an urban area, take pictures of the bricks and road colors.

    • 2

      Bring the pictures (a digital readout is fine) to a hardware or home supply store and select spray paints that match the colors in the photos. Get extra for the base color. That is the color that occupies the majority of the area you recreate in. In almost all cases, get flat-colored spray paints.

    • 3

      Determine what you wish camouflaged (e.g., boat, ATV, rifle). Cut out stencils in the design of the pictures. For example, if you hunt in forest areas, cut out stencils in long strands and if you hunt in a desert region, cut out large blocky stencils. Use the poster board or cardboard.

    • 4

      Tape the stencils to the object to be painted and camouflaged. Apply the lightest colors first and move the stencils. Apply the next darker color and up to the darkest.