Different Paints for Different Paint jobs
Whether you’re painting your spud gun or ball launcher with a single coat or using our camo stencils to paint your truck, boat, or RV, you’ll want to select the right paint for the job.
General Purpose Paints
Jack of all trades, master of none – these paints are found in the paint section of your local mom and pop hardware store. The problem with general paints is that they really lack purpose and no serious painter will use them for anything other than what they are intended for – quick and dirty touch ups, barbecue paint, street marking for sewer and gas lines, and home projects.
The Serious Painter
Your camo stencil job or spud cannon spray deserves the best. The serious painter picks the right paint for the job, and that means asking yourself what you’re painting. Believe it or not, wood, metals, and plastics really do deserve different kinds of paint!
Wood
Unless the surface of the wood sports some sort of veneer, wood spray painting ALWAYS requires primer. Most wood surfaces are too porous for non primer jobs and not using primer will cost you money, take more time, and produce a crappy job as you attempt to spray and respray parts of the wood that eat up the paint. The first step to success is to purchase primer and paint, from the same manufacturer (important), specifically designed for wood. Wood paints are a little coarser and more forgiving than metal paints which have finer particles!
Plastic
The word ‘plastic’ is a very broad term. Look for paints that are specifically formulated for plastics, such as Krylon Fusion. Most of the time, a plastic surface such as the PVC pipe of a ball launcher or spud cannon does not need to be primed – as long as the surface has been dewaxed and sanded first. Two coats are perfect, but you will necessarily have to put more coats on if you are painting camo. Use our camo stencils to make your life easier, make the job more professional, and quicker.
Metal
Metal has some serious preparation steps that need to be followed depending on the surface. If the surface is previously painted and in good condition, it can be dewaxed, lightly scuffed, and then painted without primer. If we’re talking about bare metal that is clean and rust free, it must be primed. Metal paints like Rustoleum contain rust inhibitors which are essential unless you want to repeat the job in a few months. Only paint metal with metal paints – you can maybe get away with painting plastic with metal paint, but metal itself is unforgiving. Use metal paints only! And pick up a set of our camo stencils so you can spray on a wicked camo paint job while you’re at it.
Woods Leaf Patterns
This is one of our favourite camo patterns. There are many different camo designs that you can never find a use for but this is one of the camouflage designs that you can use over and over again. This pattern can easily be used for hunting camouflage, duck boat camo or camo for trucks.
Tree Stencils for Walls or Boats or Trucks
We call this a camouflage kit. You get three different stencils in this pack and when you put them together you will not be able to tell the difference from the woods to what you painted. You get trees, brush, and many different leaves in this camo kit!
Orange Camo Stencil
Because of where you live do you need orange deer camouflage? Well if you do need to show orange then this is the best camo pattern you can get!
Marsh Grass Camo Stencil
If you are heading to the marsh lands then do yourself a favour and use this stencil so you are never seen.
Leaf and Bark Stencil
Are you going Duck hunting? Then maybe you need to camo up your boat with this pattern.
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