Camoflague clothing/apparel

use tiger stripe outdoors and indoors i use USAF ABU

I mostly be playing in woodland, pretty regular, from what I can see most green/woodland type camo is effective. I have 2 sets of Brit DPM (I know, I know, it's just so cheap and decent! And it works. Great for when it's wet and mucky and ya don't want to wreck your other stuff) Mainly wear modern Tigerstripe - works great, just watch out for really crappy quality with some brands, also the patterns vary from brand to another - avoid ones with too much white/light areas. Some of the guys have the Vietnam one, which is great in summer when it's bright out, I have a set of Greek surplus which is good enough, although ya got to get a combat set, not the barrack wear gear, and also they issue them in various shades of colour and you want to be getting the darkest one ya can find cos some of them are very bright. Have the Greek airforce one too, only wore it once in an indoor game. It's not very camo at all! Really good quality and interesting pattern though.

Plenty of people use the Flectarn which is excelllent in woodland too. Also the Danishtarn, there's class modern gucci gear available in those patterns.

A Bulgarian friend of mine runs about in his Bulgarian issue gear from his military service, it's the old splinter pattern and believe it or not- it's really good! Not so much the pattern as the general overall subdued colour of it.

There was a guy out recently with a battered set of Serbian M93, and like the Bulgarian stuff it worked well, just because it's colour was neutral and subdued. That stuff is fairly cheap some places online. You can get unissued M93 and M89 from Serbian sellers on Ebay.COM, again issued in various shades from various batches and various factories.

Where I play we see very little ACU, MARPAT, CADPAT, Multicam, etc so can't comment really on that type of thing in woodland.

I reckon if your camo clothing and face/headgear and webbing/vest etc is fairly uniform in colour you'll be doing alright. I find the biggest eyecatcher in the woods is the guy with mismatched top and bottoms (even if they're both green-y but different shades), or green gear with tan vest, or even all camo with black hat. It seems that the clashing shades draw the eye. One of our regulars insists on wearing his lucky tan-ish cap when he plays and you can see it coming a mile away. Not so lucky really!

television wrote: »

its french central european camo for me,its very similar to irish dpm and not illegal to use [looks great when armed with a styer aug a1,hee hee]

ok we got it, you wear french CCE...............................


fyi Croatian Camo is closer to irish cammo its less "tan-y"

Closest to Curragh Shamrock is Slovenian camo. The shapes are a little smaller, but its close enough to get plenty of second glances.

DPM and Flecktarn can't be beat for Irish rural areas. Surplus is cheap, plentiful and usually good quality. Danish works well but everything after the shirt & pants can be hard to find. CadPat tends to be very expensive.

didnt bother mentioning i also have british dpm and us woodland as they are prob the most common and therefore pretty obvious that most players would have it.....and as a former member of the reserve defence forces i still have my irish uniform....but i DO NOT use it

1 thing i like about my mil-tech french cce jacket is it has loops on the arms ,shoulders and back for attaching camo material

television wrote: »

its funny you call the irsh dpm "shamrock" as are you aware the irish dpm pattern does contain shamrock shapes in the pattern....and cadpat also contains the canadian maple leaf in its pattern

Curragh Shamrock was the "codename" for the pattern while it was in development & testing, in the same way that MultiCam was originally called Scorpion until Crye's marketing department got hold of it.

I have an email somewhere from the Army's Press Office saying that the pattern doesn't have an official name and is usually referred to as "Irish DPM". Because camouflage enthusiasts usually assume that DPM refers to the British pattern and the nickname of "Paddyflage" is offensive to some they often use the original codename instead.

I'm reliably informed by people who wear it for a living that the claim that it contains shamrock shapes is an urban myth. Indeed, if there was anything hidden in the pattern it would be more likely to be the (FF) logo.

Guy Cramer claimed back in 2002 to be able to find Maple Leaves in CadPat, but nobody's been able to prove it since to my knowledge. Some people have gone so far as to say the claim is bull. Perhaps it's a case of staring at a cloud long enough and eventually seeing unicorns.

It's always a good idea to check one's facts before posting.

I have a few shirts and smocks that contain that shamrock usually on a brown patch. It is small but still there nonetheless.
I have stood on parade and have had nothing to do but look for that shamrock and i assure you its no urban myth

television wrote: »

but i can take photos to PROVE it

That'd be great. Post them up so we can all learn something.

thats EXACTLY it,sorry but had probs trying to downlaod pics myself....cheers for posting

OzCam wrote: »

the pterodactyl in DPM.

Sorry, this is real and I'm not going to take a pic of what I imagine it to be or provide any proof, because it's real

television wrote: »

look at it closley and you can see a 3 leaf clover

I've looked closley and now, I have blurred vision :pac:

Typical of some peole who don't want to believe something yet if the role was reversed they would scream murder to get their point across.
Thank you amurpho for the pic as like television I too was having trouble uploading pics.
At the end of the day why would they repeat this symbol in the pattern if it's meant to be a Disrupted Pattern Marerial because it's curragh shamrock. if these trolls don't want to believe then, that's their decision but if anyone is ever curious then this is archived here now for future reference that may prove useful to other people in the future.