Wow, I did not expect such an amazing responds on my USP-S Confusk. All the submissions were really well received by the community and one of them even got up to 68% positive votes which is an incredible achievement in my opinion!! Thank you so much for this. Since these rather simple skins did so incredible I decided to continue the series and today I'm glad to publish the first 2 hydrographic colour variants of the M249 Confusk! All the images except the inventory ones are in 4K so be sure to open up those images in a different tab and zoom in and see the little details I added :)

Also please rate the skin for the skin. Please consider not downvoting it eventhough you hate the M249


Once again I decided to challenge myself by making a good looking static hydrographic finish. The M249 is, for me atleast, the hardest gun to texture together with the Negev since it consists out of so many little bolts, parts and it's a huge composition in general. To make it even harder the hydrographic finish will only allow me to use 4 colours in total. I jumped into the workbench and loaded up the M249 in hydrographic form and set the colours respectively to Black, Red, Green and Blue. The grip and buttstock of the M249 will become a solid Blue colour which tells me that colour 3 (Blue) will be my shading colour. At first I had the idea to make the buttstock and grip completely white on the alpha channel so I could work with 4 colours and not be bothered by the solid part but then I noticed those solid coloured parts are not editable in terms of wear. I decided to lick my wounds and used blue as my shading colour since there was no other colour that would look visually pleasing.

After coming to an end in terms of composition there was this little thing that bugged me and that was the fact that most of the edges on the dark grey parts of weapon were barely visible. This especially occurred on the side of the top lid. By using a very very very low opacity shade of red (on the composition light grey) I was able to add small little scratches that define the geometry there and will make sure that this is well represented. I also added these small details on the main body and front grip of the gun.


Just as with the USP-S Confusk the coloured parts make the weapon valuable. Also small details such as the little star on the lid and text adds value to the M249 Confusk. I wanted to primarily focus on the Factory New condition. The floatvalue ranges from 0.00 to 0.07 in FN and I wanted that the 0.00x variant would be more valuable than the 0.06x. I did so by making the sight, rail on the back side and front grip wear on these values. At 0.06 the sight and rail have a lot of scratches while at 0.00 they're as good as clean. I added a specific wear GIF where you can see what I mean :)


Once again I'm really happy that I made this skin. The satisfaction that I get out of finishing such a difficult hydrographic skin is really nice. I'm trying to find a fine line between studying and making skins that's why I'm not uploading as frequently as I used to. I will however keep uploading weapon skins but not as often as I'd like. I hope you guys enjoy this skin as much as I do and I'll hope you can leave me a positive yes vote! :)

Hollandje