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Best Color Bravo Stock to Start with for a Camo Paint Job?

Saluki2003

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I’m about to buy a KRG Bravo and planning to paint a camo pattern similar to Kuiu Vias with OD green, desert tan, brown, light grey and small amount of black. Adding a pic of Kuiu Vias but I’d use a green instead of one of the greys.

What color stock would I be better off starting out with: green, grey, tan or black?
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That’s what I was assuming but I saw several videos of guys painting black stocks…just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something.
 
I’ve cerakoted boatloads of Bravos. If you’re doing cerakote, all of it will get covered anyway, and all the colors cover fine.

I always pick the base color that I’m happiest to see show through when the stock inevitably gets scratched and scraped. FDE for a brown based camo, black for any crazy feature color schemes.

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Normally, I would agree that you should start with a light base layer when doing a rattle can paint job, however when doing a specific camo pattern I tend to look at the layers of the pattern itself. If I was going to replicate Kuiu Vias then I would start with a black base so that my templates will be smaller and more manageable when making the black squiggly parts. The other colors build on top of that and create the overlap.

 
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