Yes game animals smell or hear humans most times before they see humans. But that being said the camo that is used to break up shapes or what have you should be of the color and shapes of your background. Even on a gillie you may want to roll in the dirt or add some local plants. You should be able to find some basic plans for a gillie on the internet. F.G.
Take branches with leaves, (ferns and smaller leaves works best), lay it on top of things and spray it with different layers of brown, OD green and black paint. You can adjust the colors for the terrain
If you take a green t-shirt and bleach a few areas it makes for passable cammo. I have one where the green turned into brown and light tan. I tie dyed (tie bleached?) some green trousers once, they didn't look too good, but they did break up my outline.
okay the idea camouflage is not to break up your pattern, it is to break up your silhouette you can buy camo netting or burlap or both, small treble hooks so that you can pick up local vegetation and really get crazy with it, you can sew in ties so that you can secure branches to really break the silhouette. the store bought ghilli's look like just what it is store bought a real one can be a frightening thing.
as far as face paint, yes you break shades with camo paint when you paint a raised area it should be painted a darker shade and when you paint a crevice it is to be light this helps to break up shadows on your face and other exposed skin if you think about it when you paint your hands they aught to look like you traced your skeleton dark. painting in between your fingers a lighter color. try it out if you use this method you will not need a mirror to apply your camo its simple horizontal stripes across your face, upper forehead light green, brow bone dark green vertical strip down the nose light stripe across the cheeks down to the upper lip from upper lip to beginning of the chin will be light, dark chin stripe and a light colored throat down below the collar is the optimum way of blind application and after you do it once you will never need a mirror again. this may or may not help with hunting animals but it sure fools people, word up??
i'm not sure i'll want to be face painted when the SHTF. why not use spandoflage, ...no reapplying needed, no messy scrub up afterwards.
if you're on a tight budget you can make your own from the panty area of a pair of large nylons: picture them upside down, now tie off the legs and cut the excess off, put on over your head, mark eye holes [mouth optional] and cut. put on and check hole location and size are o.k., when you're happy with the end result add some sploches of paint [olive green, flat black, primer brown, etc.]. make a few spares for your bug out pack and you're done with messy face painting forever.
I know for deer and other animals that dont see color, a flannel shirt will break up your outline just fine. The biggest thing you have to do is sit still, or if youre walking, move slowly
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