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Because of the amount of supposedly "easy to make" ghillie suit instructables which actually require lots of time and patience I decided to post my way of making a cheap and easy ghillie suit. This type is more suited for leafy vegetation rather than say wheat fields. This type of ghillie suit looks a lot like the picture; unfortunately I have no camera at the moment so we'll have to make do with that for now. Here we go. This is my first instructable so go easy on me ;)
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First youre going to need some stuff. What you need is strong needle and thread, some camo netting (get some thats pre-treated with fire retardant) and flight suit or some DPMs for the base material to make your ghillie suit. The flight suit/DPMs are an important part of the ghillie suit but you may also want to get some boots and headgear as well. If this is the case get a boonie hat for head gear and some jungle boots (add gloves to that list). The gear is relatively cheap if you get it from an army surplus store so I suggest you get it there. Before we start attaching netting to it remember to sew some pockets on the inside and pad the knees and elbows if youre going to do a lot of crawling around. If not dont worry about it. Its also a smart idea to get a camelback and sew in a pouch for it on your back and if you dont want a boonie hat attach a hood to your suit before covering.
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Did you actually read it? He SAID this was a way to make a cheap one that WASN'T time consuming. Although I applaud your creativity, I'm afraid you should've read what he said. PLUS, well, if you think about it, 1 type of ghillie suit isn't going to blend in *everywhere*. A ghillie suit made in the type you described would blend in mostly in wheat fields(Or forests of weeping willows, *IF* those exist). One as Valdravulfr is teaching us to make would blend in better with live foliage(or dead foliage, depending on the color of the camo netting).
That's the great thing about this Instructables; these nets come pre-made in a LARGE variety of colors, so as long as you match it to your BDUs, you can match any environment you choose vs YOUR idea, which requires either dying large quantities of twine(or burlap, as I've seen people do), or buying a LARGE amount of different colors.
I'm going to sew a hood onto a BDU, because I'm looking for something that looks like the Russian Ghillie suit from Battlefield Bad Company 2, but I'm just hoping its gonna camouflage me well enough for paintball sniping.
On a side recommendation, If you're gonna sew pockets inside the BDU(Being that you won't be able to use the outside ones, not only because there will be netting over them, but because whatever's in them might hurt you when you crawl), you could just unsew the outside pockets and reuse them inside, so at least the fabric will match, and you won't need extra fabric.
PS: I might include O.D. paracord into this design, possibly to cover a drag handle which I will add on the back of the collar, since the stuff is useful and looks damn awesome.
cool instructable by the way!
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