Re: Camo Cover
well, 2 ways i know of, but it depends on what you want, do you want paint or something with more texture?
if you want the texture you need at least 4 sand paper grits, a very fine one, like 1500 or so, 800, 600 and a 400 or so, well the 400 is kind of oprional, you need ferric chloride salt and a brush, also a 2B pencil can be handy if you want any specific camo design, if not just freehand the thing, what you want is to sandpaper and rust the covers to form the camo pattern, with just ferric cloride and salt (i find it speeds up things a bit) you can get full black to brown tones, if you want other colors you can use verdigris pigment (which you can make yourself with copper) and you can get from blue to a reddish purple by heat, a blow torch or a very high power soldering iron (at least 100w) can do, hydrogen peroxide is very useful as a reactive for the ferric cloride acid.
if you want to use heat or verdigris to make your covers more colorful use them before the acid, as you want to create the light colors and shade before the dark ones.
to get the battleworn look (covers you posted) you need to make cuts on the cover with a dremmel cut off wheel, also you can use hammers, screwdrivers and chisels to further add texture, if you want something truly gnarly put a blob of solder on the cover then blow torch it red how and dip on water, repeat a couple times and it will turn a very dark gray to black and look full burnt.
just get creative and make those covers sic n nasty
mg: That was a real informative answer!!! Thank you very much!!!