DIY NIGHT CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORM

DIY NIGHT CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORM. my attempst at taking existing camo patterns to a darker level...

[@mrmicro22]

This is the time of year I think about dyeing with walnuts. Many have had success with dyeing the ACU items brown. Looks pretty effective.

[@FlyingAxblade_D20]

walnut shells are dark

[@HobbiesHobo]

Excluding the relatively new "Thermal Night Vision" I have always found the different patterns very interesting but then out of the blue, a deer will run across the road in it's "All Brown" camo. These animals have had the entire life of their species to develop the best camo and it seems to be "All Brown", go figure?

[@ffgrif]

Our Black and Tan German Shepherd would disappear before your eyes at night regardless of the terrain, even the beige living room carpet!

[@joeljoel5061]

I made my own deer camo from a set of carheartd work pants and jacket. Coyote base with a few brown and lighter green fabric paints. It's stellar. Based on deer and lighter underbrush colors.

[@Hellbender21]

The ucp/acu looks like a good camo when dyed with walnut hulls. A youtube channel called boondockery demonstrates.

[@randallminchew6780]

I think a dark olive would make a good night cameo, or maybe a graphite grey color. I don’t know.

[@LeatherNeck-0331]

outstanding,the chair force camo was the best after the dye job. caint wait to see the trousers and boots done,stay frosty semper fi brother

[@tomm2812]

Good afternoon RM et al. I just pulled my old EMS black uniform trousers moved the buttons, in actually ;') , and am putting them to use. Good video. Best

[@keithricketts4867]

I have a pair of tiger stripe from Bangladesh (woodland) colors only black seems to be more dominant.. might want to give them a look sir..?? Great video.. semper-fi

[@cap6888]

It’s funny how they ended with a purplish tint. I remember some SADF night camo that Brigade Quartermaster sold back in the 80’s that was basically a purple with black splotches.

[@renaissancemarinetv3536]

that is very interesting!

[@SURVIVOR-og6dl]

Three color desert looks like white phosphorus under ir.

[@goodredman]

For over a year now I’ve had a bottle of graphite synthetic RIT dye more, and a few items three color desert as well as ACU. Did exhaustive research on the subject still apprehensive not knowing what the results will be. One suggestion would be include material composition. For example your items likely aren’t all the same typical 65% nylon 35% cotton blend. Also did you use standard black dye non-synthetic formula? Different types of materials in fabric take the day much differently sometimes you need a acid dye or to activate it with a vinegar solution there’s even fabrics that have been treated to resist infrared. I have a ACU jacket that I’ve been wanting to die, however it came new with tags that say it has infrared coating and it also contains rayon. Seems in my research I would need to use multiple types of dye if I wanted to get one solid color. As it has synthetic and non-synthetic materials in combination also rayon will shrink in high heat, but instruction say to get it almost to a boiling temperature in the water to be able to get the dye to absorb into the synthetic nylon materials. So you can see my apprehension I don’t really want my coat to shrink too much, but I don’t wanna walk around wearing an ACU jacket that makes me look like a walking pile of gravel. Thanks for the contact I always enjoy seeing these understanding it’s tough to capture how it truly looks on camera from how it really looks in person.

[@goodredman]

Howdy, Sorry was using dictation in my comment. Was thanking you greatly for the content not the contact lol. Greatly appreciate you bringing this information to us. Help some of us avoid trial and error and spending a lot of money on ruining good clothes along with the expensive bottles of die. There’s another brand out there that was recommended I Dye poly I believe it’s called

[@renaissancemarinetv3536]

@@goodredman i use idye when i dye gear. and i would LOVE clothes that looked like gravel!

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

Yes, the USAF ABU took the best dye. As far as camo in general, the Woodland pattern of the 90s was the best, and the tri color desert (post ODS) pattern for that environment. In the Coast Guard, mid - late 90s we had the Navy ODUs, and those of us who could have been sent to Central/South America were issued the Woodland BDUs (not for wear domestically). Watching the "progress" of camo uniforms over the past years has been interesting. If there's any commercial pattern that's got potential, it's the Tropical MultiCam. But 70% of the Air Force, Coast Guard, and Navy doesn't "hump in the bush", and doesn't need camo. Curious to see what will come next after the OCP...

[@Saintbow]

What I have done with the different DIY style of cammies for night time is gone with solid color tops and bottoms, and then added my own patterns. Many times I have found Dickies tops/bottoms from Wal-Mart on their clearance rack that are turned into great cammies. I live in FL and I need gear that will allow you to survive the swampy heat and some of the Dickies lineup fits the bill. I was able to nab their summer time cool max gear for $3 dollars a shirt. The trick is to hit Walmart up at the change of seasons where they are clearing out their clothes designed for certain seasons. I nabbed a Dickies water repellant duck jacket for $6 bucks (Wal-Mart was going from winter to pre-summer. FL does not get spring time, we get 3 stages of summer). I ended up cutting the liner out of the jacket to allow more room for your kit to fit underneath. Sometimes it just pays to be crafty. Also, those OG night cammies you have are being sold for stupid prices now. I've seen used pants being sold for $200.

[@renaissancemarinetv3536]

i live in the florida panhandle myself

[@leatherneckprepper4477]

Maybe I’m a little bit biased but there will never be a better camouflage pattern than the old Woodland BDU/camouflaged utilities.

[@renaissancemarinetv3536]

PREACH!

[@olpepaw4747]

AMEN brother!!

[@ianslaby5703]

While I will be the first to say that the us gulf war desert night camo is a pretty cool pattern, it seems like it isn't effective at what it is designed to do. Uniform History did a video on the topic and it seems that it was originally developed to defeat 60s- 70s era soviet ir detection devices by playing havoc with the low resolution of these devices. It seems however that when the gulf war rolled around it wasn't effective at that, modern IR devices are going to have even less trouble with this. I also suspect that as camo it won't be effective because it is essentially a grid pattern which is not something that shows up at that scale in nature. I frankly don't see why dyeing camo for night is a good idea at all. When the local environment is dark your clothes will become darker in the shadows as well, if you dye your clothes to be even darker than the local environment's ambient light level, you will probably stand out even more, I think that this is why solid black clothes are considered poor camouflage. TL;DR- normal "daytime" camouflage should still be effective at night. dyeing only works when there is already a problem with the camo *Cough* ACU *cough*ABU *cough*

[@Olewis1995]

I dyed the tri color desert in Forrest green rit dye overnight (somewhere between probably 18 and 24 hours) for a friend. It gives a slight difference in green almost splotchy look where the two tans are and the brown stays about the same or maybe a tad darker. I dubbed it “jungle camo” and if you switched the buttons to green it almost looks like something the military would have tried. Just figured you might be interested in experimenting with it for your own uses.

[@FlyingAxblade_D20]

in 83/84 i was shooting with Jay Barrs, some olympic guy. The local joke in AZ was I could drop 12 arrows into a pie plate in the same time he could pop 3 bullseyes. Anyway, at that time, camo for bows was always basic camo. I had enough money at 14 to get my bow custom painted: i asked for reverse camo, such that, the shadows were predominant for early morning hunting from East to West. It was so popular it became a std offering of patterns. (not to brag much =) I wonder though...could you "tape off" your darker colors so only the lighter portions got darkened? Right now my hoodie is "deer brown", seems to be okay. I'll still put on a light woodlawn jacket over it if i have to walk under street lights for a mile...I'd really like to see a bleeding between the lighter & darker pattern portions, especially now that people have so messed up their distance vision with blue screeens in their face all the time, "blurryflage"? Cherish is the new love, be well! P.S. a good steel brush on my otherwize glossy black Rocky boots, took off the shine. Plus, I wear knee high black socks, & camo (darker than my woodlawn pattern shorts) with those boots...crossing the street at night I have a headlamp on Scarf & myself, & raise my arm, because drivers are often distracted...even in the evening I raise my arm.

[@renaissancemarinetv3536]

that they are. dont assume someone will stop or turn, even if the indicator says they will. stay safe.

[@chadthundercock646]

Be the tree.

[@jamesthomas5895]

Being a really old Marine, for nighttime, I still think our old Olive Drab was a really good nighttime camouflage, it won't sand up IR or Thermal., Tell the Viet Cong that Black wasn't a good camouflage.