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Posted: 7/27/2010 5:53:31 PM EDT
I practiced 3 different patterns on some mags and I plan on coating my romak with one, which one?
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I voted for the middle because it looks better for a urban enviorment and I live in one LOL so that would be the best for my situation.....don't know your's..??
I am looking into a Duracoat camo pattern btw, something like a urban color but more modern ya know, like black, brown, green gray, snow gray, dark blue, olive drab, gray and maybe even a little white. Been mixing the colors togather to see waht I can come up with.....maybe use a Flektarn or CADPAT pattern, to break it all up and make it distorted. |
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Too small and dark of a pattern. I kinda like big, light blotchy colors to break up the outline and confuse the eye. BSW http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/briansmithwins/saraptorriflecamo.jpg looks like a lego gun. |
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Too small and dark of a pattern. I kinda like big, light blotchy colors to break up the outline and confuse the eye. BSW http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/briansmithwins/saraptorriflecamo.jpg looks like a lego gun. When I first saw that picture my brain didn’t recognize it as a gun at all. I had to look and look before I started ‘seeing’ the gun. I haven’t had that problem with many other camo patterns used on weapons. Usually, only rifles that have ghillie applied to them are as hard to see, for me. BSW Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Too small and dark of a pattern. I kinda like big, light blotchy colors to break up the outline and confuse the eye. BSW http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y3/briansmithwins/saraptorriflecamo.jpg looks like a lego gun. When I first saw that picture my brain didn’t recognize it as a gun at all. I had to look and look before I started ‘seeing’ the gun. I haven’t had that problem with many other camo patterns used on weapons. Usually, only rifles that have ghillie applied to them are as hard to see, for me. BSW Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I agree that the big blotchy patterns break up the outline of the rifle and make it difficult to immediately recognize it as such. But, in my mind an effective camo pattern should not just make an object difficult to recognize but difficult to see. The color selection used must be selected to the specific environment, but in general the many right angles, straight lines and strong sharp contrast in the pic above, while maybe making it difficult to initially see the objects true shape, doesn't make it difficult to see in most natural environments. Right angles and straight lines are very rare in nature which tends to make them fairly "eye catching". The A-TACS camo concept is based, in part, on this principle and in fact does tend to blend away when viewed at a distance, as any good camo should. That is really the point after all, isn't it? It is akin to not seeing the tree for the forest. In a woodland environment, for example, do the individual leaves, or pine needles on the forest floor stand out or do they merge into one indistinguishable blob? For this reason, while not perfect, I picked the one on the far left, for the exact reason that others voted against it. Of course this is just my opinion, or is it? After all, a good bit of real research goes into the development of the US military camo patterns, and I haven't seen too much "Lego look" stuff coming up through the development chain. The older Woodland camo pattern was the closest in recent memory since it did utilize larger blotches of contrasting color, but they were at least organic and didn't have any sharp angles or lines. Most of the newer designs do tend to blur together at a distance. |
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Man...I really wish I would have read your post before I painted...but oh well its only krylon, it will wear off and need re-painting soon enough!
I went with the middle one, i'm posting a pic in this thread |
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