Everyone knows how bad it is to keep your weapon unpainted and umcamoed.
Painting the weapon is sometime the most practical way to keep is consealed, as adding vegetation or any other 3d camoflage to it is a pain in the ass.
For snipers, it's a real necessity, even in urban erea.
Let me demonstrate what 11$ worth of camo fabric and 2 hours of spair time can produce.
Notice how I cutted the fabric under the barrel. The idea behind that is to break the general outline of the rifle. I also like to keep the top portion of the barrel clean of any camo to prevent optruction to my scope line of sight. Natural vegetation will be aplied over it if necessary.
When the bipod is folded, the rifle really look like nothing. I made the "barrel skirt" in a way to hide the bipod legs and further inhense the odd shape of the rifle. It's hard to see when the rifle is laying on it's side. When held, it really look like.... nothing.
Front view. Scope is still highly visible from the front. Especially when the covers are open. Natural vegetation or a net is mendatory to hide the big black hole of the scope. On this picture, you can see that I attached some triangular ish peices of fabric on the side. Further breaking the general shape of the rifle. Idealy, I'd cover the whole thing with thoses 3D peices.
For the stock, I made a small pocket to keep some ammo or a map or whatever I like. It's the first time I do pockets, as I'm a noob at using a sewing machine. Camoing the stock is secondary, as it's always hidden under my ghillie suit.
My rifle will soon be painted. But I'm going to an urban game soon, and I need it camoed real quick. I think that type of ghillie suit will do.
I used woodland camo, so I can use it in the field, but for pure urban work, I would have used something in grey, black, and some beige colors.