How to Paint Desert Camouflage

Painting desert camouflage means using tans, browns and beige paint: the colors that most mimic the colors of the desert landscape. Kits are available for the desert camouflage paints. If you prefer, purchase the colors separately. Aervon makes spray paints in the desert camouflage colors. With the paints, camouflage anything from a vehicle to a rifle. While each object is shaped differently and requires a different size of stencil, the basic principle remains the same.

Things You'll Need

  • Utility knife
  • Cardboard sheets
  • Painter's tape
  • Urban Tan 478 2
  • Light Tan 479
  • Highland 480
  • Light Coyote 481
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Instructions

    • 1

      Set the cardboard sheets out on a flat surface. Cut out rounded and off-shaped angled pieces. Keep the cutout pieces and the sheets with the holes.

    • 2

      Tape the cutout pieces to the object to be painted. Spray the exposed portions of the object with the lightest of the spray paint colors, in this case the Light Tan. Let it dry and remove the tape and stencils.

    • 3

      Place the cardboard sheets on the object so the cardboard covers the prior color and the open spaces expose the object. Tape the cardboard to the object and spray-paint the next darker color, the Coyote Tan.

    • 4

      Move the stencils to another section of the object, tape them to the surface and spray-paint with the Highland. Let the paint dry, then move the stencils to another section of the object. There will be overlap on the colors by this point, which is fine. Spray-paint with the last color, the Urban Tan.

    • 5

      Remove the stencils and add touch-up colors as desired.