Overnighting-while-Urban, or OU
BKA has raised some salient points about 'stealth camping' (or overnighting, or camo camping, or overnighting under the radar..). In thinking about this, I want to ask the question of you seasoned (or...
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A lot of fun, interesting answers here. I'm not trying to get away with anything. Everything we do in an urban setting is above board and under the law. I'm afraid many of you miss the point entirely, but I guess I asked for your perspective and got it.
I have studied the influences of color and hue to the eye for doing model railroad scenery with terms like, trompe l'oeil, (fools the eye) and darker colors making things look smaller and less impressive, and the art of perspective. My idea is to just make the rig less WHITE so it attracts a little less attention overnight. That's all. It's a subtle thing. Of course, the most disappearing at night paint job is flat black. It is not where you want to be in the daytime, however.
Here is a class B we saw in death valley, perfect color match for the surroundings:
and an Earthroamer we saw at Badwater: They were in there having a stealth lunch and didn't want to talk to us stealth-free folk.
actually, BKA's F-550 is painted an earth tone. It's just the other 35 feet that looks like a couple ice bergs with solar panels hung everywhere. 8<)
Maybe I should have used a descriptive term like,
'downplaying your overnight presence',
instead of the socio-loaded terms, 'stealth', and 'camouflage'. So far, I see no clear consensus on any term that describes 'melting into the surroundings' on an overnighter.
jefe
I have studied the influences of color and hue to the eye for doing model railroad scenery with terms like, trompe l'oeil, (fools the eye) and darker colors making things look smaller and less impressive, and the art of perspective. My idea is to just make the rig less WHITE so it attracts a little less attention overnight. That's all. It's a subtle thing. Of course, the most disappearing at night paint job is flat black. It is not where you want to be in the daytime, however.
Here is a class B we saw in death valley, perfect color match for the surroundings:
and an Earthroamer we saw at Badwater: They were in there having a stealth lunch and didn't want to talk to us stealth-free folk.
actually, BKA's F-550 is painted an earth tone. It's just the other 35 feet that looks like a couple ice bergs with solar panels hung everywhere. 8<)
Maybe I should have used a descriptive term like,
'downplaying your overnight presence',
instead of the socio-loaded terms, 'stealth', and 'camouflage'. So far, I see no clear consensus on any term that describes 'melting into the surroundings' on an overnighter.
jefe
