what is this camo?

Sgt.pepper

hey
after seeing avatar(waste of 7 euro) something cought my eye
it was the camo the marines were wearing, it was like a brighter green mapart,


its the one camerons wearing in this pic





anyone know what its called?

cheers

Gatling

its an evolution of Penncott camo ,some said it was a crye precison multicam thats wrong, the pixels are a larger version of the Pencott posted below , its made by a company called Hyde Defination ,evilrobotshane on here wears its

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evilrobotshane

I don't think it is actually related to PenCott; there was some mention of it on crazy PenCott creator guy's discussion forum when the movie was in production but he said he didn't know anything about it (and we can be pretty sure that if it were, he'd certainly have made no secret of it because he'd benefit greatly from the publicity). To my eye, that doesn't have what I'd consider the signature feature of PenCott, that being the fractal-style way the patches of colour blend together into larger patches as distance increases. However, if you've got sources that prove me wrong I'd be intrigued.

My guess is something designed specifically for the movie as a future-Pandora-MARPAT, to capture the feel of those things. The armed forces in the movie are supposed to be serving or former U.S. Marines, as far as I remember.

PenCott is also worn by buzzymcg, and some dude I saw at Predator one time, and that's all.

Puding

have to agree looks more like a green marpat, most likely made up for the movie, it uses a similar green to Penncott but Penncotts design is far more refinned

Hivemind187

CADPAT by chance or are the pixels too big?

gungun

in the movie the pixels looked bloody massive
i'd say it was made up

ASI Casper

Looks like Jungle Stalker ( aka 'Green' MARPAT ) but the pixelisation looks too big. As said previously, may well just be something designed specifically for the movie.
Considering their budget, they could well have afforded to.

Stonewolf

"Pixels are big in the camo industry, we need to look modern, lets use pixels"
"Damn, you can't see the pixels"
"Lets make them bigger"

evilrobotshane

Probably so, although Latvian camo uses pixels that are bleedin' yewidge.

Chuck the Buck

evilrobotshane wrote: »

Probably so, although Latvian camo uses pixels that are bleedin' yewidge.

Good god did they design that in a Commodore C64???

ZeroSignal

It was definitely made just for the movie.

I'd also like to point out that since nearly everything in that film was researched to death, and that Cameron wouldn't have something in his film that didn't make sense to him, it's very likely that the camo was designed to function effectively in the cyan and green rich jungle environment that the film is based in.

Chuck the Buck wrote: »

Good god did they design that in a Commodore C64???

It's extremely effective over long ranges actually. It has a lot of macro-patterns but almost no micro-patterns. This is in contrast to Russian Digital and UCP which have very little macro-patterns and loads of micro-patterns. It's not really a disadvantage but it's just serves a different purpose to a macro-pattern dominated uniform. As far as I know, low contrast, micro-patterned camouflage is less noticeable when on the move against a similar background than a high contrast pattern as your peripheral vision is designed to notice differences in contrast.

Hybrid or next-generation camos like Pencott or Roggenwolf combine the two so at long ranges you notice the macro-pattern but that disappears at close range and you see the micro-pattern. They're easily the best camos available.



In all the photos I've seen, the Latvian camo looks to be very effective.

OzCam

[Latvian]

Chuck the Buck wrote: »

Good god did they design that in a Commodore C64???

Designed by Saab. Looks much better from a distance, and seems to be quite effective.

And his flag's on the wrong arm.


Back to original question... See also http://strikehold.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/pencott-camo-featuring-in-avatar-film/

Ample Free ...?

Seen these the other day on militaryphotos.net.
It's called UCP Delta and it's currently being trialled by the U.S. army in afghanistan along with multicam.

desertstorm

well considering the OP's pic has brighter greens and black in the colour scheme, and UCP is basically ACU colour scheme with a bitta brown, I'm fairly sure that is not UCP

Ample Free ...?

desertstorm wrote: »

well considering the OP's pic has brighter greens and black in the colour scheme, and UCP is basically ACU colour scheme with a bitta brown, I'm fairly sure that is not UCP

To clarify UCP is clearly not what the OP was referring to. I just thought I'd throw it out there for discussion given the fact that it's a relatively new camo pattern and some people won't yet have heard of it. That and the various posts regarding digital camo patterns which have come before, that's all.:rolleyes:

Masada

What the hell did they do to that sixty! whatever kinda futuremobile that is there, looks like the interior of a Nam era UH1

Sgt.pepper

54 pounds for just the trousers:eek:
daaaaamn, im just sticking to the vietnam camo
that movie just completely ripped of nam:p

ZeroSignal

Masada wrote: »

What the hell did they do to that sixty! whatever kinda futuremobile that is there, looks like the interior of a Nam era UH1

[OT] That was the point. Camcam wanted the Samsons to be functional and simple so they could work in the magnetic fields on Pandora. They used the Huey for inspiration. In the movie, that twin-rotor Samson design is over 100 years old. They just needed to downgrade to cope with the planet.
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Spooky-Vinny

Ample Free ...? wrote: »

Seen these the other day on militaryphotos.net.
It's called UCP Delta and it's currently being trialled by the U.S. army in afghanistan along with multicam.

WOW my god i am loving that camo! i can imagen it working so well!
lovely find man! thank you!
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