It was a great day to watch paint dry. My son and I went out to finish the feeders. Again it is a bit of overkill here but my kid was having fun and it was a nice day to spend outside. Here is a run down with pics. FYI, the spray paint I was using was for hard plastics and had a primer built into it.
1) We started out by using brown paint as the 1st layer. I didn't completely cover it except the cap and double wye. Having some of the light green coming through didn't bother me.
2) Next we used a small palm frawn from a robellini and used green paint to place prints down.
3) We then used an end of a scrub oak branch w/ leaves attached and sprayed over it with black paint.
4) We all took a hard look at it, the camo seemed very dark, we then decided to go with one more layer of brown sprayed over the palm frawn again.
Although I put down the entire 1st layer of brown all the way around the feeder, I did the additional layers one side at a time. After completing the 1st side I decided to change it up. On the back side I went with the black scrub oak as the second layer and then used green and brown palm frawns for layer 3 and 4. It came out brighter thats for sure. The 1st pics shows the 1st run which produced the darker camo, the 2nd pic is the bright combo. At the time, the paint was still wet.
We just went out to inspect it after drying, after looking at both sides, everyone agreed the darker side looked the best. Here is the finished product and a close up of the camo print. I am going to let these sit outside for the next month to get the smell off and let the sun work on them a little before I put them up at camp.
Looks nice, however the coons will have them scratched up in no time :2guns
as long as it's not one solid color I don't think it really matters all that much. I like my tourist type Hawaiian shirts for camo. but they did come out very nice.
