2014年8月9日 · With near boiling water/dye solution, and a decent dye concentration, I have found that most DCU and UCP items are dyed within minutes, given constant agitation. Agitation is the key. When agitated, the item picks up the dye quickly, when the item and the solution are both hot, and dye transference is optimal.

2016年1月11日 · Second issue with ACU UCP is that there's already a color in the material, so by dyeing it you're actually over-dyeing. White works the best, any other color can produce some funky results when dyed. For example using a Tan dye on UCP results in reddish-pink.

2022年4月30日 · recently bought a huge lot of 20+ uniforms of UCP and need to dye it all. i was thinking rit dye. i have a big boiler i can use. just wondering if you guys have any pointers or advice

2023年11月13日 · I tried dying a British desert camo smock a few years ago and had zero dye penetrate the fabric, I think the dwr coating might’ve prevented dye penetration. The smock I tried dying was brand new unissued.

2023年4月15日 · Affiliate Link for Dye: https://amzn.to/3MLSkAtI used the "large" size on all formulasOlive Drab Formula: https://www.ritdye.com/color-formulas/8688-2/?type=...

2021年11月24日 · I’m going to show you how to make UCP into an actual usable design. Here’s how you do it. Step 1: Pick Up Your UCP Clothing: I visited my local military surplus store, where two large bins were full of UCP shirts and pants. (The other surplus camo patterns were selling for $25+/article of clothing. The UCP items were selling for $4.

2023年11月11日 · On a surplus UCP uniform made of nylon/cotton blend, the green apple dye works great, definitely a more useful color scheme for that pattern. However, some stuff made of a polyester/cotton blend came out looking no different from the original pattern colors, and the velcro fields on one shirt turned out lime green.

2019年10月6日 · Green Apple Rit dye. Photos credited to my daughter Violet. A man chooses, a slave obeys. MUCH better. Almost like a lighter shade of CADPAT. Nice work! How did you do it? Thanks, I just followed the instructions on Rit packaging.

RIT Dyeing UCP Olive Drab and Coyote Brown! Howdy Folks! The weather and my schedule finally permitted me to experiment with RIT Dyeing specific color formul...

2022年7月3日 · I used the Rit type dyes. I used mostly the taupe color mixed with a little dark brown, some lemon yellow, kelly green, and a very small amount of black, I also added a very small amount of the "dye more" chocolate brown. I dipped a paper towel before i did my gear to make sure that it was close to the color that i was looking for..