I made a stencil for some shapes and used masking tape for other shapes around like the barrel and scope. Khaki was the base and brown and olive drab(sparingly). then went over the whole rifle with olive drab and brown but just to get a shading effect to soften up the digi-pattern. My main reason for painting was to make the barrel a lighter color to reduce heat from the sun. I actually thought about dragging it through the yard to scuff it up, I like painted rifles that have scuffs, its kinda sexy.