 Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we are back painting stuff, and so we're gonna paint this Safari Land holster This is a Safari Land 6360-832. It's for a Glock 17 slash 22 with a TLR1 light or a ITM3 light. I honestly don't know what that light is, so if you do educate me. Anyways, this started life as a Level 3 holster, so it had the the button here, and then it had a hood over top and it had this like plastic guard that protected the Hood and the button. I took the hood off and I took the guard thing off because the guard thing gets in the way I don't need that. I took the hood off because I don't need level 3 and I added a the nub here an extended nub from OT Defense. This was a $30 upgrade that in my opinion is a must on any Safari Land holster. They do make one that fits under the hood as well. This one is too big to fit under the hood, but they do make one that fits under the hood. However, I just wanted ALS. I didn't need a hood. I don't need a level 3, a level 2 is gonna be just fine for my purposes. This is gonna be the new holster that goes on my battle belt, so I am adding some retention to that just because this is Minneapolis and they're gonna defund the police now and all kinds of fun things. So I want retention on my battle belt setup now. So that's what I'm doing, I'm adding that. So this is kind of a blackish color. We're gonna paint it right because black doesn't blend in at night and I just it's gonna match my battle belt which is already multi-cam, so I want some more color matching. It's got to look pretty. If you don't look cool, I don't know what you're doing. So here's what we're gonna do. Here's I'm gonna paint this one. I got a variety of colors. I'm gonna start out with a brown. Okay, I'm gonna try to give these about 24 hours to dry in between. Maybe not that long, 12, 24, something like that. The point is that I want the coat to kind of fully, fully cure. So I'm going to start with a brown. I'm gonna hit it with a brown and then I have three other colors here. I have a dark green, kind of a dark army green. I have a khaki and then I kind of have this army green which is kind of like a puke green. I don't think this is gonna look very good at all. I'm really curious to see what that looks like. But I'm gonna do them in layers. I think I'm probably gonna go dark brown, puke green, tan, and then and then the dark green. And basically the idea there is that as I wear on this and as I beat it up and I wear it and it gets necked and cut and scratched and all that stuff, the paint, the top layers of paint will wear off and show the under layers of paint. And so it'll kind of, one, give it that cool vintage look, but two, it'll add to the camouflage pattern, right? So that as it gets beat up, it'll get more camouflaged and not less. So that's my theory. We're gonna see if it works. I honestly have no idea. I haven't painted anything like that before. Usually I just kind of try to do it in all one coat. So I'll be really curious to see how this how this turns out on this holster. That's my plan. We're gonna paint it now. Okay, just wanted to show you how I decided to tape this. So basically I put sticky side out right here, around here so that it will, I can match up to the edge of the holster like that. And then I just put a piece over the top. I did tape off of the nub right here completely because I wanted to keep that clear. I want to make sure that's gonna still function. I don't want to interfere with the mechanism of that at all. It's super smooth right now. I love it. So this is how I decided to tape it. Okay, we're gonna start with the brown. We'll let that dry. Okay, so it's late at night here. I can kind of see it. The brown has dried a little bit there. So I'm gonna hit it with kind of this ugly puke green color. Not sure if it's gonna show up too well, but that's what I'm gonna hit it with. Okay, we're on day 3. We're gonna go with this kind of tan-ish color. This is a really good base coat I found in a lot of camouflage patterns, so I really like it as a as a good base coat. Okay, so here we are on day 4, and I'm gonna do a coat of the dark green, which is this one here. And So what we're gonna do here is we're gonna put some netting over it to try to get a little bit of a pattern. I don't know. I've had mixed results with this netting in the past, so we'll see how it turns out. But I'm gonna hit it once like this. It actually turned out better than I thought, so we'll let it dry and we'll take it from there. Okay, so here it is. It ended up blending in pretty well. I'm actually pretty happy with how that pattern turned out. You know, it looks like it belongs on this belt, so that's that's good. One thing to note about this safari land holster here is that it does have a natural camp built into it, so I put these stoppers here that I had on my T-Rex arms holster on here originally. I don't think they quite fit, but I made them fit and kind of forced the camp in the holster there as you can see that so that it straightens it out. So it's a straight draw. I'm a big fan of straight draw. That's a big deal. Sorry if I muffled the mic earlier. But that's what I did there in order to get it to be a straight draw. But the color scheme itself, I think turned out. I'll be curious to see how it holds up and once I start to get scratches and nicks and wares on it. I'm hoping that the individual layers and allowing them to fully cure and dry in between will give me the effect that I want and it won't just scratch off back to black or whatever, but it'll kind of reveal those other layers as it gets scratched. We'll see. We'll do a check-in on that. But that's it. It's my new holster from my new BattleBelt. That's how I decided to paint it. Let me know what you think. If you've painted holsters before, I would love you to show me all the stuff you know that I don't know. That's always helpful. Do brave deeds and endure.