'Camouflage' is now called DPM (Disruptive Pattern Material), the names is a hint - the colour or how pretty the pattern is is not that important, it's breaking up the outline or shape A row of uniform green straight sided squares is almost as visible from a satellite as a row of shiny galv. ones So any old paint will do, slapped on any old way in a mix of any old colours. if it peels, so what? it just makes the image even more disrupted.
I remember a good few years ago when many in the hunting/shooting fraternity eschewed the army surplus clothes rail at game fairs where people like me with a lot less money than sense would make a beeline for, and instead would throw their hard earned at a revoloutionary new DPM alternative called 'realtree' people spent a fortune on 'Mossy Oak' 'waterfowl' or 'timber' which made them look like an American tree whilst at the same time marvelling (but not understanding) the next display which was dayglo orange Cammo to ensure that another simple witted hunter didn't mistake you for a rabbit but would still make you invisible to old Bambi.
The next season as all the youngsters turned out in their expensive realtree kit an old gaffer who always turned up at his local meet in his tatty old gannex raincoat held together with a bit of old baler twine, leaning on his trusty (and very rust) Baikal single barrel 12 bore leaned over to me and said. " I sometimes wonder how much of this is designed to fool the buyer, rather than the quarry"
