Have any of you guys ever painted any stripes on regular clothes that you like to help break up your outline? If so what kind of paint did you use?
Thanks!
Yup. I've done it with Rit dye and with fabric pens. The fabric pens take a lot longer, but the result also lasts longer and gives a lot more contrast.
The rit dye was pretty much a waste of time.
There was an article in Backwoodsman Magazine a little while back where the author painted his own camo clothes. Sounded like a good idea.
Don't use paint. I learned that this summer. I ruined my favorite canvass ALICE butt pack and a pair of H suspenders that way. Paint stiffens it up and it stinks.
For my next trick, I am going to try tie dying.
I'm using a white long sleeves Tee shirt and a spray painting head sock both cotton and both rolled up so the rubber banks will make vertical stripes. with highly concentrated Rit dye. I haven't figured out how to boil just part of them yet, but I'm working on it. I'll take pictures.
One year my friend took a fat black sharpie marker and a blaze orange sweat shirt and drew branch patterns on it and it turned out nice. It took him a while though
Paddy,
The pens I used are dye, not paint. Sorry, my mistake.
I advise you don't bother with the tye-dyeing. You can get whatever color you want, but the bleed of the dye through the fabric fibers make it impossible to get any contrast. All the lines are fuzzy, making the end product pretty useless for breaking up your outline in the woods.
I have used rit dye by tie dying(weak contrast due to running)and fabric markers to enhance the effect, this worked ok for wheat/prairie colors. I have used regular spray paint it works ok, your cloths stick of spray paint (seem like for ever)and if you get to much on it cracks to little and the color contrast does not come through strong.
I used boot dressing on an outfit and it worked great,also rit dye is great just use a sponge ton apply.
I used some black shoe polish on a snow camo top. I wanted some black lines in there. Came out great...until the wife threw it into the wash by mistake. Now I have a gray top.... :scared: :saywhat:
Yes, My snow camo is made with black automotive primer and walnut stain.
I sprayed long vertical lines with the black rattle can. I then took a rag and dabbed some stain on here and there. Wash a few times and Your good to go.
I know if you use Larry Maggards/Mike Yancy's arrow dye on fabric, it colors it up real good.
P.S. Wear gloves!
I camo painted a sweater back in about 1965. I don't remember what kind of paint but I bet it was oil base. Ended up throwing the sweater away because no matter what I did with it the paint smell was always present.
I am pretty sure that if I still had it that it would still stink. That was the one and only time I used paint on clothes.
I have a pair of carhart insulated suspended overalls taht are part of my favorite cold weather gear..love the heavy duty brass zippers on the side of legs..lets me slip out of'em easy with my boots on for gutt'in and skin'in time..anyways..they are like a mahogany color but i took a can of flat black primer to'em to break'em up..nothing heavy...just quick passes of tight light lines..let'em dry for a week..then washed them with baking soda..no peeling, cracking or chipping...LOL!..like i dsaid..light passes...just enough to soak into the fibers..and i did that 20 years ago and they still look great..only wash them twice a year though..once in baking soda before hunting season and once in baking soda after hunting season..outside of that?..ain't a whole lotta call for insulated carharts in south florida. LOL!
kiwi shoe polish black,brown,grey it comes in a bottel with a sponge attached,you can use it like a big marker
Used fabric paint, bought at a craft store on a wool sweater jacket back in 85'. Worked great. I still wear it all the time. Kind of a sticks and limbs pattern.
I bought a CamelBak pak with "Real Tree" camo. It had way to much white. So I used a paint brush and brown camo face paint and touched up all the white.
Snow camo made out off an xxl sweat shirt and and extra wide black tip permanent marker. The tip is about a 1/2 inch square. Drew vertical limbs on the shirt and arms and spay painted a few light brown leave shapes here and there. Works great, washed about 4-5 times no loss of color. Left outside stashed on the ground for the entire off season. I can't smell anything anymore. The closest I've ever gotten to deer is when snow is on the ground and I've worn this type of snow camo.
Why not just buy a camo shirt?
Self made equipment is much more fun then forking out $ for it. I'm sticking with plaid wool and lee's. It works and I feel comfortable in them. Plus I already have them.