The paints have been around for a while but I did have to go to 2 different ace hardware stores to get the colors I needed but even then there is a mild green out there that I wish I could have found. Krylon makes a plethora of camoflage colors but not all of them are stocked and availiable in every store. I did not go to home depot, and I wonder if they have them all...
Here is how I went about painting the gun:
I reasearched MM's webpage about multicam and how it works, which is that there are smaller patterns that break up the outline of a person at a close range and then there are large blocks of green and brown that fade from dark to light over the cloth so at a distance the small pattens cannot be seen but the large fading affect give the camo a long range capability. With that in mind I first drew out on a pice of paper how I wanted the fading to work, looking at a sample of multicam from MM and then I sprayed the M4 completly in Krylon's khaki color and let it dry, then I sprayed certian portions of it brown and then faded the dark brown into the khaki. After the brown and khaki was dry then I proceded to put masking tape over the places wehre I wanted the brown and khaki to show through and after that I sprayed the open areas again with khaki and then once that was dry I faded green spots over it. Once that was dry I took all the masking tape off and used a stensil that had little blobs like unto the multicam small pattern and carefully sprayed them in random areas on the m4. I repeated the same process on the hand grips and gently misted my tango down grip, not that fully painting it would decreasse its value (it cost more than my rail) but for the obvious fact that all the paint would come off when I would be using it. I chose the OD molded hand grip so I would still ge tthe green paint without painting it. So that is the rest of the story...
