Those of you who have Rhodie Painted your pews...

[Austeyr]

What paint brand and colour did you use? Struggling to find anything for a reasonable price that also looks the part. Bonus points if you can include pics of how the paint looked on the rifle 

 

And for the sake of clarification, I mean the baby shit and blue - Not Rhodie brushstroke pattern

[Enid_Puceflange]

There’s a few vids on YT showing it, I can’t remember if this guy gives the real colours 

(not got time to watch it again just now)

 

 

[Austeyr]

9 minutes ago, Enid_Puceflange said:

There’s a few vids on YT showing it, I can’t remember if this guy gives the real colours 

(not got time to watch it again just now)

 

 

 

Yeah, he uses Arizona Response System's paint, as does every other youtube video. I can't buy paint from America and have it shipped to the UK. Hence why I figured I'd ask here as it's a UK forum and hopefully some UK people have done it using UK paint 😂

[Austeyr]

Ended up making my own "recipe" 

 

It's not perfect, the blue needs to be a bit brighter but I'm happy with the baby shit colour at least

 

I can't attach an image, for some reason. Guessing the forum is still being buggy but I used:

 

Arteza craft acrylic colors premium Olive Green, Dijon, Dark Teal and Charcoal black

 

And essentially eyeballed the colours until they matched the images shown on ARS's website.

Edited 20 hours ago by Austeyr

[EvilMonkee]

Never understood the fascination with the Rhodesian Armed Forces, afterall they did represent a racist apartheid state.

[Austeyr]

27 minutes ago, EvilMonkee said:

Never understood the fascination with the Rhodesian Armed Forces, afterall they did represent a racist apartheid state.

I like painted guns, I like FALs, can’t argue the most iconic paint job on a FAL is the Rhodie paint. I can’t speak for anybody else but that’s my reasoning for doing it lol

[Cannonfodder]

15 hours ago, EvilMonkee said:

Never understood the fascination with the Rhodesian Armed Forces, afterall they did represent a racist apartheid state.

You could say the same about people wearing ww2 German kit. Personally I'm not too fussed what someone wears to a skirmish. If they start spouting hateful propaganda then I have a problem 

[Austeyr]

2 minutes ago, Cannonfodder said:

You could say the same about people wearing ww2 German kit. Personally I'm not too fussed what someone wears to a skirmish. If they start spouting hateful propaganda then I have a problem 

I have the same conversation with a lot of online redditors regarding RUSFOR kit. People jump on the Airsofters for wearing certain kit, like wearing EMR for example means you’re actively supporting what’s going on in Ukraine.
 

Adding politics to a certain kit/camouflage is less than ideal. I used to wear a Heer kit when me and my friend ran as a 2 Man MG-42 team but we definitely don’t agree with what happened during the 40’s. Same as how I tend to wear an EMR uniform (No ribbons etc), it doesn’t automatically make me support Putin and the invasion of Ukraine 😂

[Cannonfodder]

The thing is you can take pretty much any military and find something nasty that they've done. People need to stop looking for offence where there isn't any

[Tackle]

Next you'll be telling me its too soon to wear my new Sudanese rmf loadout ?

😏

[Austeyr]

3 minutes ago, Cannonfodder said:

The thing is you can take pretty much any military and find something nasty that they've done. People need to stop looking for offence where there isn't any

Aye. That was a point I bought up a little while ago, a guy was talking about the “slaughter of civilians by Russians” on the Airsoft subreddit because a dude posted a pic and he was in an EMR get up. They used the point that it was “wrong to glorify invaders causing war”, I mentioned how many people use GWOT kits and never get hated on. War is bad (Obviously) but it’s Airsoft. Most of us wear kit because it looks cool, not because of what it represents if that makes sense 

 

That being said, I wouldn’t mind some short shorts for the summer 🤣

[Cannonfodder]

That's one of the reasons I avoid cesspits like reddit