Disclaimer: Paint is pretty permanent, do this on a test object (such as a cheap or broken replica) before you do your primary.
Materials:
Krylon Fusion or Camouflage spray paint
Masking tape
Newspaper or drop cloth
Paper towels
1. Clean your gun off, make sure it is dry.
2. Masking. Bunch up a small piece of paper towel and stick it in your muzzle. Fill your magazine well with paper towel and use masking tape to mask your optics and any other no-paint zone.
3. Choose your base color. For my Tigerstripe design that is based on the BDU pattern, I use black as my base color.
4. After letting the paint dry (takes about 5 minutes. Painting over wet paint gives you a bad finish) start masking your stripes. To create a stripe, rip a piece of masking tape down the center. Be uneven about the width of the stripe. Create your stripes vertically or diagonally on the replica, with a stripe going all the way top to bottom on the replica.
5. Paint your second color, let dry.
6. Add your second set of masking stripes. Lay each piece of masking tape so that half of it is over a previous stripe.
7. Paint your third color, let dry.
Typically Tigerstripe has 3 colors, so you would stop here and remove your masking.
Figure 1: Our shiny plastic Marui M16-A2
Figure 2: Flat black base coat
Figure 3: Masking stripes
Figure 4: Painting over our second set of masking stripes
Figure 5: Finished product in a pose
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