Ghillie suit: NEW pattern " woodland forest floor " project

[Ghillie art design]

Hi people,

Im bart and i run ghillie art design camouflage systems belgium, a hobby based profile / youtube channel.

My previous project click here was a personal succes to me ( my personal development ) so i decided to continue with a next project called " woodland forest floor". This time im completely new With this type of camouflage called " leaf suit ". Also i like to improve the adaptivity of the base layer to any body-type and make it a very easy system to replace / repair items. So lets start this topic with a BANG..


The environmental structure for my new project contains the complete opposite of my previous suit. The texture exists of dead fallen leafs in a woodland environment. So this time i prefer to design the next generation of ghillie suits called " leaf suits " . I read and watched a lot of YouTube and crafting tutorials but have 0,0% experience with this kind of camouflage so decided to give it a goooooo... The colours are this time very different:

- brown leafs
- orange like leafs
- beige leafs
- green plants
- green grass

The garnish choice for this suit is chiffon, polyester mesh and cotton fabric.

- chiffon is a very liteweight ( i think artificial fabric ) with the benefit that its a quick dry fabric.
- polyester mesh is very stretchy and also very quick dry thin breathing fabric
- the cotton ( pocket fabric ) is also very thin but you can spray dye it..

This materials work great for me so i started building my second suit in " woodland forest floor pattern ". This is my first sample designed with:

- mid tone brown polyester mesh
- beige chiffon
- yellow cotton
- beige raffia
- mid brown raffia
- pale green raffia

The sample in daylight

The sample is lowlight conditions

First test in woodland environment

For me the yellow cotton appears to be " to bright " so i modified the colour by using a spraycan with brown textil dye and created that used dirty look that a lot of leafs have.

After drying cutted in strips like this:

Im mixing the bright yellow and modified " dirty used yellow " together to break up the yellow with this result:

The bright yellow is less in the mod pattern. Today ive tested to 2 patterns side by side, here are the results

While designing i preformed another new fieldtest to observe if the pattern matches the enviromental textures. This are the results:

 

[Ghillie art design]

Building progress, im also gonna place a 2nd buckle on the chest area.

Yesterday i did some more fieldtesting and based on the environment i decided to update the garnish colours a bit:

• new brown colour, less darker.
• new colour added " beige pink like "
• less greyish beige

On photo's you can see both pattern colours, also a field test picture, find both pattetns. Wich pattern works best ?

New pattern on the left

Field testing new pattern ( right )

 

[LRRPF52]

Nice work! I’ve been making Ghillie Suits and concealment systems since 1993. Used them in 3 different Scout Sniper Platoons and Long Range Surveillance, as well as with NATO and European coalition forces from 2005-2016.

We had a guy in LRSC who made a leaf-based system that was pretty awesome, lightweight, and very effective. He used an old parachute where he painted it the appropriate colors, then cut out the leaf shapes and melted them with a soldering iron to form the leaf textures. He even made a spray paint can nozzle that would deposit small rot spots on the leaves to duplicate the dead leaves for his dry/fall environment suit.

For the netting, if you can find a lighter gage net that is lighter in color, it will help. Exposed netting often gets entangled with twigs and branches, or worse, catches on a branch of an overhanging tree and disturbs the tree significantly, which is a huge target indicator for any enemy observers.

You can place a thin layer of nylon over the net, then cut small holes in your tie-down locations and eliminate most of the snag hazards of a net-based system.

Your camouflage material selection appears to be really good. One thing you can do to add to the disrupted edges of the individual sections of fabric is to use pinking shears on a roller cutter or scissors:

I have both, and prefer the roller cutter due to speed.

Great work! Looking forward to seeing how your top evolves.

 

[Ghillie art design]

Nice work! I’ve been making Ghillie Suits and concealment systems since 1993. Used them in 3 different Scout Sniper Platoons and Long Range Surveillance, as well as with NATO and European coalition forces from 2005-2016.

We had a guy in LRSC who made a leaf-based system that was pretty awesome, lightweight, and very effective. He used an old parachute where he painted it the appropriate colors, then cut out the leaf shapes and melted them with a soldering iron to form the leaf textures. He even made a spray paint can nozzle that would deposit small rot spots on the leaves to duplicate the dead leaves for his dry/fall environment suit.

For the netting, if you can find a lighter gage net that is lighter in color, it will help. Exposed netting often gets entangled with twigs and burst, or worse, catches on a branch of an overhanging tree and disturbs the tree significantly, which is a huge target indicator for any enemy observers.

You can place a thin layer of nylon over the net, then cut small holes in your tie-down locations and eliminate most of the snag hazards of a net-based system.

Your camouflage material selection appears to be really good. One thing you can do to add to the disrupted edges of the individual sections of fabric is to use pinking shears on a roller cutter or scissors:

I have both, and prefer the roller cutter due to speed.

Great work! Looking forward to seeing how your top evolves.

Thank you for the reply. Yes there are very various ways to make a ghillie leaf suit, the fun part is that if you are creative minded you can use much materials. Now that parachute fabric has 2 big pro's: i thinks its infrared proof and waterproof so its a very good idea. Pinking shears is a very nice idea thanks for the advice and the black netting is a bit a problem here i dont find any netting with beige or green colour so for this moment the black is my only option.

 

[Dogtown]

“No ghillies in the dryers!”

 

[Huskydriver]

“No ghillies in the dryers!”

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[7.62willdo]

I shoot coyotes for dairy farmers in my county and im often laying on the ground or on hay bales some times in trees and I’ve wished many times that someone made a Ghillie blanket, something I could keep rolled up until I need it and then roll back up….