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

[Saluki2003]

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?

 

[redneckbmxer24]

Grey.

 

[Milf Dots]

Tan- because putting darker colors over lighter base colors is much easier than painting light colors over dark base colors.

 

[Sniff]

Tan- because putting darker colors over lighter base colors is much easier than painting light colors over dark base colors.

Yep. It's always easier to darken something light, than to lighten something dark.

Whether a rifle stock or an army truck.

 

[Saluki2003]

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.

 

[Hawkguy29]

Like the other dudes said. Always start light with camo.

 

[Hennig]

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.

 

[mark5pt56]

I was always taught to start light and go on from there.

 

[John_in_WYO]

Calling @Short-bus

 

[Trigger Monkey]

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.

 

[Short-bus]

Calling @Short-bus