Thanks a ton dude. I’ve been buying UCP gear recently. There’s so much surplus available now for the civilian market and for so cheap that you just can’t say no. I’ve always liked digi-camo, even UCP when new and not faded, even as ineffective as it was. Dyeing it 100% cures all ills. I think the Sandy is perfect.
I’ve watched this several times and I’m still blown away with how a video centered around color wasn’t first color graded / white balanced before being uploaded.
I feel dumb for not thinking of this sooner. This would be a great way for guys wanting to have budget-friendly uniforms for their prepared citizens/ militia groups. "ACU" sells for dirt cheap compared to other stuff on the market. Get your buddies to all pitch in and dye a whole vat of the stuff at the same time so it's all as close to "uniform" dye job as possible. Ta-da. Useable camouflage uniforms at a fraction of the cost.
Great vid! I saw one other person on yt who showed a set of dyed UCPs, but like you mentioned, they were too tropical looking for my environment. I`ll def have to try the sandy pattern!!
I know Rit has their own equations for making olive drab but I’ve found it to be too summer-y/ true green when mixed with the ugly grey ucp stuff. Recently I did a mix of one box of the Kelly green, about 2/3 of a box of the dark brown, and I used like a quarter cap-full of the synthetic purple liquid dye with about 3-4 gallons of water that I kept just under boiling for about 40 minutes. I dyed an old ABU shirt and it turned out (imho) damn near perfect for anywhere with a lot of pine trees in their area. I spent like $9 total and I’m pleased enough to call it poor man’s tiger stripe.
I have been thinking about trying this out because there's almost always UCP stuff to n my local thrift store for next to nothing... I just found your channel tonight, so I haven't seen most videos, but if you haven't done one on how to dye, that would be groovy.
I've been dying for awhile now. UCP is cheap and so is dye. You can rattle can to tone down the color of you're not using the chart to create better colors i.e. using peacock green instead of creating od green
I'm thinking of using the OD recipe on some USAF tigerstripe gear. Do you have a pic or video of that pack outside in daylight? Do you think it is close to surplus OD gear or ranger green? Thanks. Love the channel.
I tried to do the sandy formula but it came out dark red and orange even though i dyed them for a very short time. Wish I knew what I did wrong, mine looks awful. I followed the instructions on the package
Dark red and orange?!?!? Man, sorry, not sure what happened there. I did a batch once with what was supposed to be brown and it came out this dark red kinda pink thing
@CitadelDefense1 that's what I'm saying! It was like a pinkish-redish-orange. I did ¼ chocolate brown and ¼ cup apricot orange to 3 gallons like the website said and followed the bottle instructions. I should have done the test piece that I meant to do but I got excited and did a whole uniform. I'm not blaming anyone but me, but still it's like none of the brown took and the orange took immediately and darkly. Any way that you'd be willing to post a video on your process? Yours looks fantastic, that color would match where I live perfectly. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in that video!
Idye poly works a lot better and easier to use. Dyes super quick and doesn't run after washing. Only problem is finding the right colors. tested the normal green but it comes off too dark and bluish for my environment. Waiting on olive to arrive for my next round
@@doloinc the main reason I stick to Rit dyes is because my first experiment with Dharma Acid Dyes was a complete fail, so I fell back on what seems to be the general standard on YT which is Rit Apple Green, and admittedly I have been getting some good results with that
@@thatpackguy I picked up on Idye poly from Renaissance Marine. It's crazy how quick it works and how well the dye sets, considering how much cheaper it is. Only downside so far is I have only tested one color that I didn't like and still need to find the right dye or a mix that can get my gear to an olive drab. I would have went with Rit dyemore but it's too expensive where I'm at and they won't ship it here because it's a liquid.
I’m going to be doing a black walnut dye on my gear and Air-force ACU’s. For the last couple weeks I’ve been gathering, black, walnuts, crushing the husks off and drying them. What happen with the airborne white straps inside?
Ummm, I think I used a large size on these? So is go large or extra large. The key is making sure you have enough water to completely submerge your ruck. Which depends what on your item and the container you are dying it in
@@CitadelDefense1 Thanks, I'm 30 mins into dying a couple 6 mag Bandoleers the "Sandy" color as a test run before i do a FLC setup. Ill do the full hour and see how it goes.
@@CitadelDefense1 You’re welcome, do your research we have tested it with PVS 14 WP , PVS 30 G and others and it was clearly the top performer, “We own the night” is an actual thing, also in further ranges it’s very effective, look at Brent0331 desert video, make your day.. stop acting like you know it all you don’t, AOR1,2 were all developed by Natick as was UCP, it’s also desert/urban/snow on one side and woodland on the other side of the sun, meaning shadow lined, let me guess you knew that too huh?
