SUV owners very often try to paint them in such a way as to blend in with the surrounding nature as much as possible. This is due to the fact that this color looks very appropriate for hunting and fishing. In addition, in urban conditions, such a car looks very stylish. UAZ painting in camouflage can be done by car service specialists. This will save you from unnecessary trouble, save time, but will require large financial costs. However, you can do the procedure yourself.
When applying, it is important to understand why you need camouflage paint. Real disguise assumes that the car will work in difficult natural and weather conditions, mainly off-road. With such factors, it is necessary to approach this matter very carefully. Camouflage must be resistant to scratches, abrasion. The tape doesn't fit. But during urban operation, the car can be completely or partially glued in a khaki-type film.
It is necessary to paint the vehicle indoors, which is well ventilated. As a rule, any painting is carried out in the summer, so that dust does not settle on the body of the car, you will need a garage. We drive the car into the garage, wipe the dust from the car and seal the car windows with newspapers using 4 cm wide adhesive tape. It is better to remove the car optics, if there is no time to mess with it, it must also be sealed.
Stains can be applied in two ways: staining and film. The first involves applying spots in a chaotic manner through a stencil. Before work, you need to arm yourself with polish, newspapers, construction tape, paint in spray cans. the figures must be overlapped, new spots must “run into” the old ones. This allows you to control the borders and creates a quality pattern. Particular attention should be paid to this, care should be taken when processing the main places. If light paint is superimposed on dark paint, then two coats must be applied. Otherwise, the dark will shine through. Between applying layers, it is recommended to pause for a couple of hours.
If you decide to use the film, then you must first cut it and decide on the image. The car is painted, then the car is pasted over. And this procedure is repeated several times. Then the film is simply torn off and camouflage is obtained. The film is glued randomly and overlapped. The optimal number of layers is three. Three layers of paint and two layers of film.
The final result will depend on how conscientiously and diligently you treat the work.
Camouflage-style paintwork adorns many cars today. Coloring of this type is becoming more and more popular and is no longer associated exclusively with the military or hunters.
It is impossible to perform staining in the factory, usually only one color is applied there. paintwork, so many car owners are armed with the necessary shades of paint and try to do the painting work on their own.
Camouflage painting can be done in different options, therefore, before starting work and buying paints and varnishes, you need to carefully read them and choose the right color.
To apply camouflage on a car, you need to have a good imagination and the ability of a designer.. To make the drawing look organic, it is necessary to adhere to the rule of the golden section and evenly distribute the spots over the vehicle body. There are such painting options:
- Forest camouflage.
- Desert (shades of sand or brown, camouflage on this type of car has small and abstract spots).
- Winter version (the figure has a white-gray-black color scheme and spots on the body are made larger).
- Hunting or military (all the spots are large, as if they pass into each other and at the same time have blurry edges).
Recently, digital camouflage has become more and more relevant - spots in this case have clear edges in the form of huge pixels. Typically, this design is used to decorate racing and sports cars.
Painting a car in camouflage
Despite the fashion, hunters or the military most often paint their vehicle in this color. Do-it-yourself UAZ painting in camouflage can be done with minimal time and labor costs, since such cars often have a khaki or grayish tint. Therefore, you do not need to carefully select shades to get the job done.
To perform the work, it is necessary to purchase the following materials and tools in advance:
- Newspapers and magazines to protect non-paintable surfaces.
- Masking tape of different widths in rolls.
- Aerosol paint of the desired shade in cans.
- Airbrush (if the work will not be done manually).
- Solvent.
- Clean rag.
- Primer and putty (if it is necessary to eliminate some defects on the body).
- Degreaser.
- Lacquer and polish for finishing.
It is recommended to apply camouflage on a car in a specially equipped room with good system ventilation. This will not only avoid defects on the applied paintwork, but will also be useful in order for the applied layers of paint to dry as quickly as possible.
It is necessary to work in a protective suit and a respirator, since the fumes of paintwork materials are very toxic. It is also advisable to equip the room with good halogen lamps that provide illumination without glare. So you can better inspect the surface of the vehicle and apply paint.
The car must be thoroughly washed and dried, and the interior must be tightened with a film so that paint does not get inside during work. It is also necessary to protect the glass and optics of the vehicle with newspapers or old magazines and masking tape (if possible, it is better to dismantle the headlights altogether).
If the car does not have any chips and bumps on the surface, you can immediately treat it with a degreaser and start applying camouflage. If paint swelling or rust was found, these places must be cleaned to metal, treated with putty, sanded well and coated with a primer.
Do-it-yourself camouflage on a car
There are three ways to paint a car:
- Drawing drawings of leaves, reeds and a variety of grass (a plotter is used for work). This type is considered the most expensive, since it is very difficult to depict it.
- Camouflage with blurry edges.
- Camouflage with clear contours of spots.
How to paint in camouflage? All work, regardless of what color and type of pattern needs to be applied, starts the same way - the vehicle is carefully prepared and washed away from dirt. Before starting work, it is imperative to choose the shade of paint that will be used to paint the upper layers.
It all depends solely on the imagination and wishes of the owner. It is necessary to prepare specially cut newspapers or self-adhesive film, if necessary, so that the pattern on the body is with clear boundaries. After treatment with a degreaser, you need to wait for the car to dry completely in a chaotic manner and, in accordance with fantasy, the film is applied to the body.
It is necessary to ensure that the pieces go to all parts of the body and at the same time do not form kinks. If you do not follow this rule, the paint may lie unevenly in places of fractures, and the entire vehicle body after painting will look inorganic. Then a layer of the selected paint is applied (it is better to start with dark shades).
Painting a car in camouflage is a lengthy and unhurried process. It is necessary to wait until the paint layer is completely dry and only after that the car is again pasted over with a film so that the spots overlap each other a little. Now you can apply a light shade of paint.
When all the colors have been applied and they have dried, you can remove the entire film. In order not to spoil the edges of the stains, the surface must first be slightly warmed up with a halogen lamp. This way the tape will come off on its own and won't damage the paintwork.
If you want to improve the camouflage a little, you can soften its contours using a black shadow border. To make the car's camouflage look more advantageous, some car owners cover the surface with a layer of varnish.
But most prefer to leave the car as it is, haze gives it an unusual appearance(in this case, for additional protection of the paintwork, it is recommended to apply a coat of varnish with a matt effect to the vehicle).
Painting methods
There are two methods that can be used to apply camouflage to the body.
Method 1. After the vehicle has been cleaned, a primer layer is applied to its body. The surface is pasted over with adhesive tape to prevent paint from flowing and the darkest shade of the selected ones is applied. You need to create spots from adhesive tape of a small width, it will be better to lie on the surface of the body.
Be sure to paint the roof of the car, otherwise the drawing will not look solid and complete. It is better to choose a quick-drying paint and after drying, the adhesive tape is removed from the body. Then the spots are arranged in a new way, while painting the body with a lighter paint and repeat the whole procedure again.
Then the tape is removed, at the request of the car owner, you can fix the pattern with varnish and polish it thoroughly.
Method 2. In this case, the car will need to be repainted. How to paint a car in camouflage? First, the vehicle is degreased and the surface is puttied. After it dries, the surface must be cleaned with sandpaper and blow off all the accumulated dust from the compressor.
Then the surface is primed and degreased, the body is ready for painting. Cut film, tape or newspapers are placed on the body in a chaotic manner. Then dark paint is applied and after it dries, the adhesive tape is removed.
The procedure must be repeated several times, apply another gray, brown or green color. The whole procedure does not take much time and as a result you can get a camouflage with clear spots.
If the owner wants the edges to be blurry, the surface of the body must be heated with a lamp and the edges will spread themselves. You can also use an airbrush for this purpose.
In order not to perform all the painting work, you can purchase a special film and paste over the body with it. Camouflage film on a car can be:
- Various textures and thicknesses.
- Have a glossy or matte finish.
- To be of different widths, while it is already ready for application to cars.
- It has different colors, so everyone can choose a pattern to their liking.
Its main advantage is the ease of removal - the old coating will not be damaged and you can change the color at any time.
Painting a car in camouflage with your own hands - the main technology
At the moment, the direction that is known to many as painting a car in camouflage is considered to be more and more popular and relatively popular in the field of car tuning. The following is a detailed description of painting a car with your own hands.
Necessary tools and materials
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To carry out such a process as painting a car in camouflage with your own hands, it is worth purchasing and preparing the following materials and tools:
- High-quality aerosol paint, which is sold in special cans and applied to the car. It is necessary to purchase four spray cans of green, black and brown;
- You will need a special vinyl film;
- Sponge and polish;
- Lacquer that creates a matte effect on machines;
- Solvent brand 469 in the amount of half a liter;
- 200 ml of gasoline;
- An ordinary paint spatula, the width of which is 7 cm;
- Some clean flannel;
- Halogen lamp, the power of which is 1 thousand watts;
- A large number of old newspapers;
- Special masking tape made of paper, 5 rolls wide and narrow.
Preparing a car for painting
The most optimal time to paint a car is the summer period, since warm weather, as well as a complete absence of humidity, are optimal conditions for a variety of painting jobs. 
Painting your car in camouflage with your own hands can be done in the garage, it will be convenient to paint it in a clean and very spacious box. The most important thing in this case is to completely eliminate such adverse factors as dust deposits.
Preparation should begin with all unpainted areas completely sealed, only then you can paint the car. For this, old newspapers are used, which are attached to a special masking tape. Glass, door frames, and optics should be completely covered. If, during the implementation of all work, the presence of paint in such places is still found out, it is worth carefully removing it with a solvent. After that, a special degreasing of the body surface is carried out using a lint-free cloth, which is pre-wetted in gasoline.
How to paint in camouflage using paints
When carrying out a process such as painting personal car in camouflage, it is quite convenient to apply a vinyl film. Naturally, the total cost of such a staining method will not change in any way, but the process will go much faster.
The workflow is as follows:
- The film is pre-cut into sufficiently large fragments, where special holes are made, which will be future stains.
- A pre-prepared vinyl sheet using a special technology is glued to the car, as well as to those parts of the body that remain uncovered.
- A similar procedure is repeated with green and brown. A stencil film designed for brown spots is glued in such a way that it often overlaps all previously applied black spots. As for the green color, the spots are applied strictly overlapping on brown and black.
We must not forget to carry out high-quality drying of the pigment of each color shade, only after drying can the next layer be painted. - After the entire body is completely painted, all layers of the film are removed without exception. If you are not satisfied with clear contours, you can refine it with a tool such as an airbrush.
- The final workflow is the application of varnish.
Features of applying varnish to a car body
Experts recommend applying a special varnish to the body, which has an attractive matte effect. This composition gives the surface a special velvety structure. It is worth noting that the technology of applying varnish from simple varnishing does not differ.
It is worth noting that a solvent is added to the varnish before it is applied, as well as a special hardener. The quantity must be strictly the same as indicated in the instructions. Often these parameters change from one layer to another. For example, for the lowest one, a composition that is more liquid in consistency is used, which is fluid. The last layer will require the application of a more concentrated layer, which is thicker.
The varnish is applied to the car in about 2-3 layers, before applying each of them directly, you need to wait some time for it to dry. You can check with your hands, as soon as the fingers stop sticking, you can start applying the next layer.
The vehicle will look even more original if the spots are made large enough to capture different elements of the body. Strictly along the contour of the spots, a special protective screen is formed, also made of newspapers. Through it, you can avoid staining the excess area in black. 
It is recommended to start the process of painting spots on a car of a different color after two or three hours, that is, after the previously applied spots are completely dry. To make the camouflage of the car as solid as possible, the spots are necessarily drawn with an overlap. The application of each layer strictly in two layers is able to provide a rich, opaque color. This is especially true for the green color shade, it is the lightest. In the process of drawing spots, it is worth moving strictly clockwise, with all the body pillars and, accordingly, with the roof.
Summing up
Painting a car in this “camouflage” shade is popular, as this option stands out from total mass huge amount Vehicle. It is very important not to overdo it here, since camouflage should not take up more than half of the total area of the car.
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Painting with Raptor camouflage
front and rear power bumper OJ
Spare wheel gate OJ
Electric winch STOKRAT HD9,5WP with synthetic rope and aluminum hawse
Expeditionary trunk with an opening for a hunting hatch
Hunting hatch dimensions 600x750
Front and rear axle VALRacing
LED panoramic beam with a combined light output of 245Wt.
Rear work light ProLight
Head light optics Led Speaker (lensed LED)
Car tent with a vestibule STOKRAT on the trunk
Tires BF Goodrich 265 \ 70 \ 16 on alloy wheels
Lift suspension kit
Lift body kit (bodylift) 60mm
Luggage system with two drawers and two drawers with hinged lids
Fixings for rigging and entrenching tools STOKRAT
Air heater Webasto (Ebershpeher)
Protection of steering rods and power unit
Steering Damper RANCHO RS5000
Another interesting project of the Extreme-NN workshop - UAZ 452 Loaf. Individual approach is not empty words for us. I would like not only to please the client, but also to make the SUV itself individual. And it should be beautiful, strong and modern.
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Repainting with Raptor in camouflage. The most time-consuming in this process is not computer design and cutting stencils on a plotter, but the consistency and accuracy of gluing and coating. After all, it is important to avoid pressure, blurring and do everything in its turn.
Power harness. Without a power kit, this is not an SUV. With plastic, you can’t compete with off-road for a long time. Plastic for majors. Our cars are brutal and strong as a rock. Therefore, we threw out the regular similarities of bumpers and installed steel ones. A gate for a full-size spare wheel was screwed onto the rear bumper. If you already have adult wheels, then if something happens - for example, a puncture, then riding a small bald dokatka is simply ridiculous. Five full size wheels! And their periodic orderly change along the axes as they wear out.
On the front bumper - winch. The winch should not be plastic and dead. It must be reliable and powerful. In the end, we chose HUNDREDS of HD9,5WP models. Its feature is a hardy 6hp engine, engine and gearbox oil seals from moisture ingress, increased racks. Increased racks (sidewalls) is a huge advantage. After prolaposhiv shifting the cable and winding it to one side, you can steal in a couple of minutes ... ruin any winch! After all, the effort of the winch is enough for it to wind the entire cable on one side and break the ties and the ears of their fastenings on the sidewalls. With such a breakdown, the work of the winch and its handy repair is impossible. But this model has high racks, which means the volume of the drum is larger, which means that even if you went over the beer and got carried away off-roading, you forgot that you need to watch the cable sometimes, the probability of breakage is much lower than in comparison with other models.
Instead of a steel cable, which over time can become fuzzy and turn your palms into tatters if carelessly handled, there is a synthetic cable and an aluminum alloy hawse. This not only creates comfort when using the cable and operating the winch, but also reduces weight by about 15-17kg.
Inside the drive axles at the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, only free friction differentials are installed. Those. whichever wheel is lighter will spin. This means that, for example, getting up to pee on the highway and moving down one side from the asphalt to the roadside slurry, you can no longer leave. And it would seem ... We throw out free differentials into scrap metal and put self-blocks. We chose ValRacing samoblocks as the most accurate in terms of quality and very reliable. They really even look like a factory branded product, and not a piece of shit assembled in a garage on their knees, even with the naked eye of a specialist. Lockout preload 7.0.
Light. He is called upon to fight the night, the darkness and everything that hides there. Halogen, xenon is only grandfathers will tell you how they assembled chandeliers on goats from them. On our machines, only the latest achievements in chandelier construction. LED technologies. High light output, low power consumption, variety of choice, but here's the price...
In order to defeat all the demons of darkness, we did not waste time on trifles and attached an LED light bulb to the trunk of no less than 245Wt. How are you? Bright enough? A beam with a bunch of LEDs with a combined design of diffusers and a panoramic shape. Bundle type combo. Wide angle illumination. Beam length 130cm. Instead of the headlights of the standard head light, linzovannaya LED optics were mounted. The formation of the luminous flux corresponds to the near and far beam. I hear how critics with higher technical education jumped up from their seats in the hall and shouted: -this is not according to GOST!
Hmm, what about GOST in your life? Blind all critics from behind, illuminate the camp, skin a hunted boar or elk, maneuver in reverse, of course, we will not use a flashlight in one and a half glow plugs that are installed at the factory. We will use the best possible ProLight work light. The same naturally LED. Filling, economical, bright, unkillable.
In the configuration of this car, a partition is installed that separates the luggage compartment from the passenger compartment. For efficient use of the cargo compartment, we have installed a system with sliding volumetric drawers and two drawers with hinged lids. There you can remove the chainsaw and fuel supply, rigging, food, tools, etc. And the main thing is to have quick access to it.
A rack and pinion jack is securely installed in the cabin; if necessary, it can be quickly removed.
To keep warm in the off-season or dry clothes, there is a button in the cabin - "turn on Africa". The Webasto air autonomous heater will not let you freeze, it will create coziness and comfort at any time in any frost. An adjustable deflector will direct the flow of hot air in the right direction, and the thermostat will maintain the specified climate regime.
Hunting hatch. You can instantly open and stand in the opening even in winter clothes. It is convenient and safe to conduct observations from such a hatch. The manhole cover is supported by hydraulic seals.
Autotent HUNDRED. The car tent is a super invention. I love to travel with a car tent. This is freedom. You get up for the night in the best and most unusual places. And while the rest are struggling with finding a place for a tent, wandering in a swamp, anthills, on stones, cones and bumps, you are already lying down with a beer on a soft mattress and looking down on everything. It is also very interesting and effective to use the car tent as a mobile storage shed. You got up in the chosen place and you can comfortably watch the beast through the night vision device. The tent has four windows, mosquito nets, does not get wet and can be folded together with sleeping bags. Just right for us lazybones.
As a result, we got an SUV with its own individual trait, equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable trip and stay outside of civilization.
Text Tyutin Dmitry. Photo video Tyutin Dmitry Samoilov Vladimir club Extreme-NN
Today, such a direction as painting a car in camouflage is becoming increasingly popular in the field of car tuning. In this article, using the UAZ as an example, we will show how you can “disguise” a car with your own hands.
Necessary materials and tools
- aerosol paint in cans (4 cans of black, brown and green pigment), as well as vinyl film (depending on how the camouflage pattern will be applied to the car);
- varnish with a matte effect;
- sponge polish;
- solvent No. 469 (0.5 liters);
- gasoline (200 ml);
- special painting spatula (width 7 cm);
- clean flannel rags;
- halogen lamp with a power of 1 thousand watts;
- as many old newspapers as possible;
- paper masking tape (wide and narrow - 5 rolls each).
We prepare the car for painting with our own hands
The best time to paint a car is summer, because warm weather and lack of humidity are the most optimal conditions for painting. it is recommended to carry out in a garage or a clean spacious box. The main thing is to completely eliminate such a negative factor as dust, both in the air and on the surface, otherwise the camouflage pattern may not turn out as attractive as we would like.
Seal unpainted surfaces with newspaper. Click on the photo to enlarge.
We begin the preparation of the car by sealing all unpainted areas with old newspapers. We attach them to a wide masking tape. We completely cover the optics, glass, door frames and sealing gum. If, upon completion of all work, it turns out that the paint still got on one of these parts, carefully treat the stained area with a solvent.
Then, we degrease the surface of the machine with a lint-free cloth soaked in gasoline. It is not recommended to use a solvent for these purposes, as it acts too aggressively and can not only clean the surface, but also damage the factory paintwork.
When you try to paint such an area with paint from a spray can, the coating may stand up as a “fur coat”. If this nevertheless happened, we pick up a halogen lamp, heat the surface, and then completely remove the paint with a spatula. If this is not done, when the paint is reapplied, the "fur coat" may appear again.
We "mask" the car with the help of paints
You can answer the question of how to "camouflage" color in different ways. Camouflage on the car body is drawn by hand or using a stencil. The first method is, of course, preferable, because then the camouflage will look more natural. On the other hand, using a stencil will save time. Let's take a closer look at creating a drawing with your own hands.
The first paint color we have to work with is black. We will create the contours of the spots using a narrow masking tape 2 cm wide. It fits well and allows you to create smoother lines on the body. In addition, paper masking tape can be easily removed from the body without damaging the paintwork. You should pay special attention to the fact that the adhesive tape fits snugly to the surface, without forming folds and creases in which paint can accumulate, otherwise the contour may not turn out very neat.
The car will look more original if the spots are made large, capturing different elements of the body. A protective "screen" of newspapers is formed along the contour of the spots. It will not allow us to paint extra areas black. After that, we apply black paint from a spray can to all spots. You can start painting spots of a different color only after 3 hours, when the black spots are completely dry. Next, we have to paint some areas on the car body brown, and then green. We draw spots in the same way as before.
It is important that they overlap: this is the only way to make the camouflage seamless. We apply each paint color in two layers to ensure a deep opaque color. This is especially true for the green color, since it is the lightest. When drawing spots, we move clockwise from the starboard side, while not forgetting about the roof and body pillars.
View of the car after painting. Click on the photo to enlarge.
When the camouflage painting is completed and the pigment of all three colors is completely dry, we remove all newspapers and adhesive tape and proceed to varnishing the car.
We suggest applying a matte effect varnish to the body. Today, matte varnishes of the “soft touch” type are very popular, which give the coating a velvety texture. The technique of working with such compositions is no different from conventional varnishing:
Immediately before application, a solvent and hardener are added to the varnish in the proportions indicated on the package. Often these parameters are changed from layer to layer: for the bottom - a more liquid and fluid composition, for the finish - more dense and concentrated.
However, if you do not have too much experience in this area, it is better to strictly follow the manufacturer's instructions.
The varnish is applied in 2 - 3 layers and must be kept for some time to dry each. If, when touching the coating, the fingers still stick, but no longer lubricate the varnish, you can start applying the next layer.
We create camouflage on a car using vinyl film
When painting a car in camouflage, it is very convenient to use vinyl film. Of course, the total cost of painting will not change from this, but the process will go much faster. General scheme working with vinyl film is as follows:
- the film is pre-cut into large pieces, in which holes are made - these will be our spots.
- the prepared vinyl sheet is glued to the car, and those parts of the body that remain open are spray-painted black.
- We repeat the same procedure with brown and green. We glue the stencil film for brown spots so that it partially overlaps the black spots, and in the case of green, so that the spots overlap on black and brown. Remember to thoroughly dry the pigment of each color!
- when the entire body of the car is painted, all layers of the film are removed. If you are not satisfied with the clear contours of the spots, you can refine it with an airbrush.
Note to car owners
Painting the car in a “camouflage” color is original, it will definitely be noticeable from afar. However, it is important not to overdo it here: camouflage should occupy no more than 50% of the total area of the car body, otherwise you risk being fined by traffic police.