Part 7 - Final Touches

Now that you have your basic Ghillie suit there are a few things you can do to make it that extra bit more comfortable and a few things that are essential.

The first thing to do is to use those elastic fabric strips from earlier

These are really good because I find that when I am crawling around my suit hitches up around my legs and arms. To counter this all you have to do is cut two of these into about 10cm strips and the sew them to the inside of your sleeves. When you put the suit on your thumb should go on one side and your fingers on the other. Now whenever the suit pulls these pull it back, stopping it from riding up!

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The legs are  basically the same apart from the fact that you want to sew the straps higher up so that when you put your boots on the hem of your trousers can go over the boot. So just make the legs straps longer and sew them on as well!

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 Now another thing to do is camouflage your boots because they have a tendency to stick out like a sore thumb because they are all black. So all I did was use the remaining scrim net and hang it over my boots. Used the elastic strips from above to hold it in place then glue it on. Tied some twine to it an ta-da! Here is the result:

Another great thing to do is to get the Ghillie suit dirty. This helps roughen the suit up and get it looking like the natural world, nothing in nature is clean and tidy so neither should your suit be! Just lye on the floor and roll around in some dirt and mud until you get the right effect.

The last thing you could do is get your black spray paint and go over the front of your suit with it in lines. This will help break up the solid green patches on your front. Just be careful not to over do it (also do it outside, you don't want to choke on the paint)

As you can see the black paint breaks up the green