Painting boat camo

[brandon558]

Any of you guys paint your own boats? Im wanting to paint the duck boat camo..and make it actually look decent. Wondering whether to buy a kit with stensils or free hand it with stensils?

Any of you have any experience with this that could offer me some advise? Best kind of paint to use, ect, ill take anything

Thanks

[ncfish]

Best looking one I've done was 15 years ago so I don't have any pics, but I made a stencil similar to marsh grass or bamboo out of thin cardboard, started with a light marsh green base coat, then used the stencil and sprayed on a darker green, then a darker brown overlapping some. Spray paint was just camo you can get anywhere but the base coat I used Petit.
Blended well with the marshes I hunt and worked good enough for hiding the boat when we hunted hardwood creeks or coves. I don't have anywhere that I hunt out of the boat anymore so just use my skiff to get there and walk in now.
Good luck and post pics when you're done-

[hunt4fish]

I've painted a couple and just used grass and leaves for the stencils and they turned out great.Start w/your lighter colors and progress to your darker ones.Also I put camo clad on a boat and it turned out great also,and holds up good,just another option. I used Rustoleom(sp?) camo paint in the can,just make sure the boat is clean,wipe it down w/acetone or similar first.

[BTH284]

Whatever you do, make sure you prep the surface being painted first. wash, degrease, rough up etc. or it will be all for not. Parkers duck boat paint works great for the bigger areas. You can use the krylon or rustoleum spray paint cans in their flat camo colors for the detail work.

Also, be sure the camo pattern is to scale. Bigger patterns for bigger objects. IE don't use the same pattern scale for your boat like ones on your clothes, gun etc. if you do, the boat will look like a dark object vs. breaking up its outline when hidin' it. Take a look at wider paint strokes and open spaces on the canoe below for example. It is an old paint job but you get the drift here.

[Glenn W]

Give me a 12 pack of Corona, about 6 cans of camo spray paint and watch Rembrant in action Stencils, schmentcils.
I will indeed brag, my duck boat has the best paint job I have ever seen--- the secret? at least 6 Coronas and a "screw it, lets try this" mentalitly
Honest to Pete, what you want is a soft blending of colors without sharp contrasts--- and which bleed together. Get a good base of Olive drab. Then some flat black--- not too much just blobs here and there. next is the dark drown flat. spray along the edes of the black blobs but start making more of a vertical scheme to it--- again not too much. Next comes the light tan. The amount of the tan will depend on whether you want more of a hardwood dark, open water medium, or light marsh grass effect. Spray this tan verically, again over spraying the dark brown,--- Careful a little tan goes a long way. Finally, go back with the Olive and overspray lightly to soften the black, and darken the tan as appropriate.
A precision camo job looks just like that--- precise. Ain't nothing precise or soft about breaking up an outline. Indeed that is what you are trying to do--- break up defined and precise outlines.----- see now why the Corona is so important?
If you screw up or unhappy, another 6-pack and a couple cans of spray paint will fix it right up.
I can take pictures of my boat if desired.

[brandon558]

Thanks guys..great info.

Glenn- snap a couple pics if you could. And when are you comin to Wilm? Ill have the coronas waiting

Thanks guys

[Dave Sikorski]

Spray paint works great, but Lock stock and Barrel sells a great Flat Marine Enamel paint that is FLAT as can be, and is sold in a million colors.

Lou Tisch is the owner of the place.

www.lockstockbarrell.com

I agree with what's been said above.

Surface prep is MOST IMPORTANT!

-D

[foxhole]

Paint works killer....But...

You should think of a wrap....Basically it is multiple 'camo' stickers that are applied directly to your boat. You can make whatever camo pattern you want..The digital printer prints directly to what type of grade wrap you want.

Here is a website that does nothing but camo and has multiple patterns.

I am not affiliated with this company. I just found them on the web.

http://www.camowraps.com/

[#1Gaffman]

Hey Brandon,

I did my duck boat this year. Its not a 100 percent pro job, but it sure does the trick and i like the look of it. I just taped everything i didnt whant camo, then spray paint the whole boat camo tan, i put two coats on it. I whent and cut a couple of small sticks and a handfull of thin reeds. I would lay them up against the side of the boat and softly spray over them with a camo brown. I did the whole side of the boat like this, spraying every 6 or 7 inches. When i was done that i used a regular old large leaf and repeated the same process with the leaf. Overall it turned out pretty good. I also did my engine in that wetlands camo adhesive, and that stuff is awesome.

To bad i dont even have a boat blind to use it

[SAXIS ISLANDER]

GLENN,

I'll spring for the Fizzy Mexican beer, a few limes, and a new mason jar if you'll help me paint my truck!!!