So anyone have any luck dyeing these into a decent camo scheme?

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Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 05:27:50 be2bd8 No.516337

So anyone have any luck dyeing these into a decent camo scheme?

Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 16:31:58 1711a3 No.516410

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Yes

Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 19:03:36 7994cf No.516437

>>516410

I rike it. Now I regret not buying those USAF trousers.

Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 19:18:27 a1a58a No.516440

>>516437

I used 2 colors of liquid Rit Dye, I'd suggest the powdered Rithe after that because the bled came out too dark at first and I had to bleach them to lighten them up

Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 19:48:16 128b36 No.516448

>>516437

adding a pinch of green or brown to the USAF camo might turn out cool.

>>516440

bleaching it up might wreck the NIR treatment

Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 20:38:44 1ff63d No.516454

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>>516410

That looks pretty good, almost pseudo Digi Flora. Any reports on long term fading, or if it affects NIR treatment a lot?

I have several OCP BDU's and a couple Massif shirts that could use that treatment. Though more pic related in color, maybe a pinch darker though.

Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 20:45:33 1ff63d No.516455

>>516454

*UCP, not OCP. Fuck

Strelok 09/14/17 (Thu) 22:54:12 6edb40 No.516478

Might be a decent idea since it is being replaced and is generally shitty so it is cheap

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 00:34:58 6c1ea6 No.516492

Why the fuck did the Army ever adopt ACU? Seriously, it is the shittiest fucking camo ever.

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 01:40:21 be2bd8 No.516508

>>516410

Did you use rit dye like >>516440 or some other technique? I want to see if I could make them look closer to either flecktarn or marpat.

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 01:57:33 17e97a No.516520

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>>516492

They took the gray man concept a little too literally.

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 02:05:40 a1a58a No.516523

>>516508

Learn to read ID's

>>516448

>>516454

I have a pic through NV somewhere, the NIR wasn't effected. When I'm on my desktop I'll post it

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 02:27:01 16f07c No.516525

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>>516520

>the boots blend into the environment better than camo pattern with millions of dollars of research behind it

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 03:07:05 7fc7ca No.516534

>>516525

You expect the guy to be fucking invisible standing in front of you a meter away?

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 03:43:30 ff7799 No.516550

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>>516534

I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure I'd notice a 6 foot tall fucking cinder block walking in the woods from 150 meters away.

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 10:07:29 7994cf No.516603

>>516525

UCP is the ultimate camo hack job. They just took MARPAT and turned it gray. It's so terrible that the Jian copypasta would perfectly fit it.

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 21:26:26 433b1e No.516703

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>>516448

>>516454

NV pics as promised. My tube is blemished, but it's an L3 gen 3 thin filmed so it's a step above the USGI ITT tubes in terms of resolution.

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 22:26:31 cf3ff9 No.516718

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>>516603

IIRC it was the worst perfoming camouflage of all in the trials. I don't know why the fuck it was selected.

The fuck up was so big that it made news here. The army had to show their camouflage effectiveness on camera (which was decent, we use a copy of MARPAT with apropiate colors).

Strelok 09/15/17 (Fri) 22:55:32 876663 No.516727

>>516492

Corruption. Reading the wikipedia page on it I can't be lead to any other reason.

Strelok 09/16/17 (Sat) 00:32:02 cf4a5f No.516759

>>516727

Actually, by this point it has become necessary for the DoD to make terrible irrational decisions on a constant basis to hide the cases of corruption. It goes sideways when the people who are supposed to be making random nonsensical decisions realize that they may as well get their beaks wet, because fuck it this shit is already fucked.

Strelok 09/16/17 (Sat) 19:08:30 7994cf No.516912

>>516718

At least we dyed UCP green. No, seriously, the Mexican Army Digital Pattern is just UCP in green, I just realized that on this thread.

Strelok 09/16/17 (Sat) 19:27:17 13d5d8 No.516917

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>>516492

>>516520

>>516718

To this day I am not sure what the fuck US Army was thinking regarding that UCP pattern. What was wrong with that earlier desert pattern?

Strelok 09/17/17 (Sun) 00:25:46 7994cf No.516963

>>516917

When the USMC started developing their digital pattern they tried to seek some support from the Army, so the finished pattern would be used by almost all! branches. The Army refused and the Marines went their own way. But then when the Army saw the final product they asked if they could use it too. The USMC answer was "NO, FUCK YOU", and so the Army developed (or so they say) UCP.

Fucking retards, even the Navy was more clever and they just took MARPAT and just twisted it 90°.