MegaCamo Blog
Stories, guides and news from the world of camouflage — from the history of iconic patterns to practical buying advice. New articles are published regularly.
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Arbuz “Flora”: The Watermelon Pattern of the Russian Army
Russian soldiers called VSR-98 camouflage “watermelon”, a nickname older than the pattern: it described a stripe-dominated print of the early 1990s, and a qualifier told…
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Italian Camouflage: From Telo Mimetico to Vegetato
One of the most widely copied camouflage designs in Italian service was not designed as clothing at all. The pattern adopted in 1929 was printed…
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MARPAT: The Camouflage the U.S. Marine Corps Patented
Between 2001 and 2004 the United States Marine Corps did something that, as far as the record shows, no other service had done with a…
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Strichtarn: East Germany’s One-Colour Rain Camouflage
Strichtarn is the most minimal camouflage pattern ever to dress a European army for a quarter of a century. It has no blotches, no leaf…
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Izlom, Skol and Skol-M: Three Names, One Family?
Three names for one piece of printed cloth, and a trap built into the question: the names are not three synonyms, they are not three…
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Bulgarian Splinter: From German Splittermuster to National Standard
Bulgarian splinter is a foreign label. It is what collectors, illustrators and surplus dealers outside Bulgaria call a family of angular camouflage prints…
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Leibermuster: Germany’s Last Wartime Camouflage Pattern (1945)
There is a version of the Leibermuster story that circulates comfortably: a brilliant late-war design, issued to the Waffen-SS, worn across the collapsing…
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Slovak vz 2007 “Kocky” and vz 25: The Cube Pattern and Its Successor
In December 2025 the Slovak Ministry of Defence presented a new combat uniform for the professional armed forces, designated Personal Clothing System –…
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AOR1 and AOR2: A Field Guide to the Two U.S. Navy Patterns
Two U.S. Navy camouflage patterns dominate search results, marketplace listings and forum arguments, and almost every argument starts with the same mistake…
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Chocolate Chip: The Six-Colour Desert Pattern of the Gulf War
The six-colour desert pattern, “chocolate chip”, was a decade-old specialist uniform when the 1990-91 Gulf War turned it into the most photographed camouflage on earth.…
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Frog Skin and Duck Hunter: America’s First Camouflage Combat Uniforms (1942)
Frog skin and duck hunter: what the 1942 US camouflage uniform’s record does and does not show, and how to tell wartime cloth from later…
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Erbsenmuster: The Waffen-SS Pea Dot Pattern That Was Printed, Not Drawn
The Waffen-SS pea dot was printed, not drawn: its round grains are the raster of a five-colour fabric press. The first non-reversible SS camouflage, 1944.
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- Camouflage History — the stories behind the world’s military camouflage patterns, from German WWII and Soviet leaf to ERDL, UCP, MTP and today’s digital prints.
- Pattern Guides — identify and compare camouflage patterns at a glance: colourways, variants, look-alikes and how to tell them apart.
- Myths & Facts — camouflage myths, debunked: we separate legend from fact.
- Buying Guides — practical buying advice from MegaCamo: made to order explained, choosing your camouflage, sizing, production times and what to expect.
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