The Perfect Colors to Dye UCP Gear

[@Dan.50]

KZbinrs are doing with pennies what the US government couldn't do with BILLION dollar budgets.

[@oldowl4290]

Thanks a ton dude. I’ve been buying UCP gear recently. There’s so much surplus available now for the civilian market and for so cheap that you just can’t say no. I’ve always liked digi-camo, even UCP when new and not faded, even as ineffective as it was. Dyeing it 100% cures all ills. I think the Sandy is perfect.

[@miletello1]

That OD color looked great

[@ContraIsBased]

all of those look pretty great,and the dyeing works better when the gear was already very sun faded,it really helps to catch the dye even more

[@j.brittenclark7654]

I feel dumb for not thinking of this sooner. This would be a great way for guys wanting to have budget-friendly uniforms for their prepared citizens/ militia groups. "ACU" sells for dirt cheap compared to other stuff on the market. Get your buddies to all pitch in and dye a whole vat of the stuff at the same time so it's all as close to "uniform" dye job as possible. Ta-da. Useable camouflage uniforms at a fraction of the cost.

[@CitadelDefense1]

Yea, that’s a really good idea. Unique IFF pattern too

[@danpass12]

I’ve watched this several times and I’m still blown away with how a video centered around color wasn’t first color graded / white balanced before being uploaded.

[@a_jim_so_dashing7664]

Good job. I like the comparison vid with all of the different garments.

[@AlexMason-s5t]

Great vid! I saw one other person on yt who showed a set of dyed UCPs, but like you mentioned, they were too tropical looking for my environment. I`ll def have to try the sandy pattern!!

[@seventhstone]

Man! I just dyed my ucp stuff two days ago, I should have waited. I used dark green rit dye. It’s not perfect but it looks tons better than it did.

[@CitadelDefense1]

I’m sure that was a massive improvement. I think playing with different formulas let’s you fine tune it a bit

[@cap6888]

The OD looks like it turned out pretty good.

[@CitadelDefense1]

@@cap6888 yea, I’m really happy with it

[@domvdg]

I have been thinking about trying this out because there's almost always UCP stuff to n my local thrift store for next to nothing... I just found your channel tonight, so I haven't seen most videos, but if you haven't done one on how to dye, that would be groovy.

[@my_balls_itch]

Here's a video on how to dye kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXWWqKxjaNCBo5Ysi=qJe7OCenohRe-SAb

[@brassvulcher8207]

Blends in with my desert, urban, have tested in snow and tree canopy and it was effective

[@Pimp_Bot_]

I'm thinking of using the OD recipe on some USAF tigerstripe gear. Do you have a pic or video of that pack outside in daylight? Do you think it is close to surplus OD gear or ranger green? Thanks. Love the channel.

[@CitadelDefense1]

I think it is pretty close to OD and Ranger Green

[@goob3826]

I know Rit has their own equations for making olive drab but I’ve found it to be too summer-y/ true green when mixed with the ugly grey ucp stuff. Recently I did a mix of one box of the Kelly green, about 2/3 of a box of the dark brown, and I used like a quarter cap-full of the synthetic purple liquid dye with about 3-4 gallons of water that I kept just under boiling for about 40 minutes. I dyed an old ABU shirt and it turned out (imho) damn near perfect for anywhere with a lot of pine trees in their area. I spent like $9 total and I’m pleased enough to call it poor man’s tiger stripe.

[@mrmcbeth]

Do you remember the dye formulas for the packs in the thumbnail? I don't have good enough color vision to tell what's what on the video. I would love to copy your work on the left and center packs. You did a great job with that.

[@CitadelDefense1]

@@mrmcbeth thanks. I just followed the formulas on the bottle

[@mrmcbeth]

@@CitadelDefense1 I can’t tell which pack is which formula, though.

[@easyeight8122]

If you compare the thumbnail to the video you can see, atleast to my eyes, that the black US patch is more prominent of any other and based on that i've determined that the thumbnail goes as follows: Left is O.D - Middle is Sandy - Right is Caramel. I'm in the process of test dyeing sandy so we'll see. EDIT: I must have did something wrong cause sandy came out red and incredibly dark, unusable and only 15min in the solution, back to the drawing board.

[@fattiewestside]

I've been dying for awhile now. UCP is cheap and so is dye. You can rattle can to tone down the color of you're not using the chart to create better colors i.e. using peacock green instead of creating od green

[@CitadelDefense1]

A good idea to layer it with some rattle can, can add some depth and more of a pattern

[@mbecker163]

Can I ask, why did you use the mixture for Sandy and not the Sandstone? TIA!

[@CitadelDefense1]

🤷🏻‍♂️ Was just the one I picked honestly

[@xenomorphelv4265]

mix two doses of RIT Dark Brown + one dose of RIT true green. you obtain a mixture close to Ranger Green color. perfect to Dyie UCP uniform.

[@rnbspowa7of69]

I’m going to be doing a black walnut dye on my gear and Air-force ACU’s. For the last couple weeks I’ve been gathering, black, walnuts, crushing the husks off and drying them. What happen with the airborne white straps inside?

[@CitadelDefense1]

I cut those out and tossed them

[@edpomi]

Those straps are 8oz of useless weight

[@thatpackguy]

Man these different dye formulas yield superb results. Any chance of you sharing your method or dye that you use?😁

[@CitadelDefense1]

I pulled the formulas straight from the Rit website - the names are all in the video. I just followed the instructions on the website, nothing fancy

[@thatpackguy]

@@CitadelDefense1 thank you!

[@doloinc]

Idye poly works a lot better and easier to use. Dyes super quick and doesn't run after washing. Only problem is finding the right colors. tested the normal green but it comes off too dark and bluish for my environment. Waiting on olive to arrive for my next round

[@thatpackguy]

@@doloinc the main reason I stick to Rit dyes is because my first experiment with Dharma Acid Dyes was a complete fail, so I fell back on what seems to be the general standard on YT which is Rit Apple Green, and admittedly I have been getting some good results with that

[@doloinc]

@@thatpackguy I picked up on Idye poly from Renaissance Marine. It's crazy how quick it works and how well the dye sets, considering how much cheaper it is. Only downside so far is I have only tested one color that I didn't like and still need to find the right dye or a mix that can get my gear to an olive drab. I would have went with Rit dyemore but it's too expensive where I'm at and they won't ship it here because it's a liquid.

[@ZIC_lone_bee]

can you post some field's tests of the ucp camel died for us to see?

[@CitadelDefense1]

@@ZIC_lone_bee gave this away to a buddy so….sadly that won’t happen

[@ZIC_lone_bee]

@@CitadelDefense1 ok thx for the answer

[@officialvicelitti9436]

Which size recipe would you recommend for the molle 2 ruck sack with the frame ?

[@CitadelDefense1]

Ummm, I think I used a large size on these? So is go large or extra large. The key is making sure you have enough water to completely submerge your ruck. Which depends what on your item and the container you are dying it in

[@StevenRAssmann-tb7ty]

You mixed up the labels on the Sandy and Carmel color when wearing on the winter coat.

[@ordinarynonplayercharacter2142]

Is it possible someone who invented ucp was thinking about being able to dye it for each AO and that feature got lost in the sauce?

[@CitadelDefense1]

Unlikely. I just chalk this up to massive government incompetence

[@tylerbryanhead]

I tried to do the sandy formula but it came out dark red and orange even though i dyed them for a very short time. Wish I knew what I did wrong, mine looks awful. I followed the instructions on the package

[@CitadelDefense1]

Dark red and orange?!?!? Man, sorry, not sure what happened there. I did a batch once with what was supposed to be brown and it came out this dark red kinda pink thing

[@tylerbryanhead]

@CitadelDefense1 that's what I'm saying! It was like a pinkish-redish-orange. I did ¼ chocolate brown and ¼ cup apricot orange to 3 gallons like the website said and followed the bottle instructions. I should have done the test piece that I meant to do but I got excited and did a whole uniform. I'm not blaming anyone but me, but still it's like none of the brown took and the orange took immediately and darkly. Any way that you'd be willing to post a video on your process? Yours looks fantastic, that color would match where I live perfectly. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in that video!

[@easyeight8122]

@@tylerbryanhead Did you ever figure out how to get the Sandy look like in the video? Mine turned out red orange too. Followed all the instructions and only 15 min in the solution.

[@markhager8321]

Ya. No brainer but I missed that. Thanks for the tip

[@falloutMan1000]

How long did you have the packs in water/dye?

[@CitadelDefense1]

I followed the directions, I think an hour?

[@falloutMan1000]

@@CitadelDefense1 Thanks, I'm 30 mins into dying a couple 6 mag Bandoleers the "Sandy" color as a test run before i do a FLC setup. Ill do the full hour and see how it goes.

[@CitadelDefense1]

@@falloutMan1000 let me know!

[@stephenurban9880]

Better lighting would have REALLY improved the video.

[@tylerbarnes7226]

Does anyone have any experience dying desert camo to OD green/woodland? Specifically trying to dye USMC desert frogs to a woodland like color.

[@CitadelDefense1]

Have not tried it

[@akforlife2423]

will a ECWS take the dye? (gore Tex)

[@CitadelDefense1]

Yes actually it will, I use the synthetic dye

[@gabrielvicenty8874]

Horrible lighting everything looks like its under a yellow light. Would love to see it in natural light

[@OneBadSSG]

Universal Camouflage Pattern: 'universal' because it is useless everywhere.

[@NormieWeimarican]

Anyone mess with bleaching them and then staining?

[@CitadelDefense1]

Have not tried any bleaching

[@jamieelder7438]

Bleach ruins the military fabric. Dried it out and it fell apart. Use rit color remover instead, but I didn't find it necessary.

[@Shadow_3-1]

Digital flora at home:

[@CitadelDefense1]

😀

[@officialvicelitti9436]

I’m dying my molle2 ruck sack for EMR at home for rusfor Milsim lmao

[@1lostinspace]

Great way to ruin it! Its designed to blend under NIR

[@CitadelDefense1]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@1lostinspace]

@@CitadelDefense1 Not sure what is funny about that, tell me you have never seen it under actual ranges under noods with out telling me

[@CitadelDefense1]

@@1lostinspace every once and a while I get a comment that makes my day. Thank you.

[@1lostinspace]

@@CitadelDefense1 You’re welcome, do your research we have tested it with PVS 14 WP , PVS 30 G and others and it was clearly the top performer, “We own the night” is an actual thing, also in further ranges it’s very effective, look at Brent0331 desert video, make your day.. stop acting like you know it all you don’t, AOR1,2 were all developed by Natick as was UCP, it’s also desert/urban/snow on one side and woodland on the other side of the sun, meaning shadow lined, let me guess you knew that too huh?

[@tylerhall6455]

I wonder if it really does or not. Someone needs to test it out. Maybe the brand of dye will make that difference too.

[@GardinerBenson-j4e]

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