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Originally Posted by Silverback93
So I'm starting to try and create my first ever legit loadout and I was wondering if somebody could lend me a hand. Right now I only own bits a pieces of different uniforms...I don't have a complete set of anything (long story why but that's irrelevant). Anyways, what I do currently own are ACU pants, DCU pants, OD pants, Flecktarn jacket and a woodland bdu jacket. I didn't want to go for any look in particular either. Just something original and some what different. By the way I will also be playing in a woodland environment. Furthermore, I would like to work around one of the pieces of gear above...it doesn't really matter what it is personally.
Possible ideas so far are...
1) All woodland bdu with either OD or coyote brown gear
2) ACU bdu with OD gear
3) Woodland or Fleck top with tan, DCU or OD bottoms, OD gear and Army of two mask or Shemagh or Balaclava (kind of a baddie look)
4) OD bdu with all coyote brown gear
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Well...you're not really going to end up with something completely original...but the devil's in the details.
If you're looking to get sorted out enough so you don't look like a rummage sale...then consider the following:
- having a set that is predominately brown...and/or a set that is predominately green...is often very helpful as that's how a great many games split up their teams
- having a set that is either all analogue (i.e. DCU, Woodland, DPM, etc...) or all digital (i.e. CADPAT, ACU, etc...) is likewise helpful...for the same reason.
- mixing and matching tends to get you shot by everyone...unless it's a combination that is clearly one side or the other (i.e. DCU top and tan pants...or Woodland top and OD pants).
- having your rig (i.e. vest/chest rig/plate carrier/etc...) match your predominate colour helps eliminate confusion. It doesn't seem to confuse anything to have solid colour rig with camo patterned clothing...as long as they're the same colour. To that end...going with either a Coyote Brown/TAN rig or a OD/Ranger Green rig tends to be a safe bet.
- when picking a pattern consider what side you want to play on...(i.e. NATO vs. Other)...and matching your weapon to that adds to the consistent look of things most times.
- while civilian/contractor tends to be ok....going all black and showing up late at a game will definitely get you shot by everyone.
- while the odd non-matching predominate colour pouch on a rig isn't bad...it's much less confusing to keep the predominate colour of all your rig/pouchs/backpack in line with the predominate colour of your BDUs.
- matching your boots/gloves don't seem to matter much....aside from trying to replicate a specific loadout. The universal black boot/glove is fine no matter which pattern/colour you're going with.
- match hats to BDU top colour/pattern for sure
I've got (and I suspect many others are in the same boat) 5-6 complete sets of BDUs...and 4 rigs...of all that I tend to only use 3 sets of BDUs (DCU, DPM, Multicam) and 3 of the rigs (Khaki RRV, DPM rig, CB Warlord).
And yes...doing so will result in a wack of odds and ends that you'll never use. Sell 'em or store 'em....just like everyone else.