Our Story

I BELIEVE THAT CUSTOMIZATION IS A MEANS OF SELF EXPRESSION.

And RossCo Coating is my way of sharing that belief with others.

I’ve used the expression “If it’s not modified, it’s not mine” for as long as I can remember. Accepting things that are stock straight out of the box as good enough isn’t in my DNA. Honing, improving and enhancing how things work and how they look is part of who I am and is a trait I share with the people that engage my services.

Things kind of took off when I began the hobby/sport of Airsoft. I enjoyed it because it let me revisit some aspects of my youth in the military. The kit was cool and building up your “loadout” is a staple for many players including me. Painstakingly creating or recreating combinations of camouflage is part of the fun and players take it with varied levels of seriousness. It always seemed peculiar to me that one would find, buy, mix and match a myriad of articles when creating the look or effect that was desired, only to spoil it by having a hunk of black metal in your hands to top it off.

My first attempt at painting a gun involved spray paint and a laundry bag which I used to create a snakeskin effect and resemble the colour and tones of my uniform. It was rudimentary but it worked and as it was just a second-hand starter rifle, it did the job. Then along came YouTube and I stumbled upon a how-to video done by James at Montactical who was painting Multicam using an airbrush and Duracoat. Coating, not painting, was now the direction I was heading in and things would never be the same. My technique improved and I began to embrace stencils as a means of taking control of the output allowing me to pull off ever increasingly complex and intricate jobs. I created RossCo Coating after I noticed a trend of people positively reacting to items I’ve coated and asking me if I could do something similar for them.

Fast forward several years and I was able to fund my hobby by picking up jobs to coat other players kit. Multicam was always popular and after laying down that look over and over, I began think about doing my own pattern. I started by looking for irregular shapes and tracing them using a software program to create stencil sheets that I had teammates cut for me.

Then one day, as I was thinking about irregular shapes, I had an epiphany and I made the connection between bodies of water and the look of shapes for stencils that I wanted. I combed google maps taking screen grabs of the images of lakes and rivers and traced them into shapes with the program. Naturally eroded bodies of water are everywhere and the supply of them is nearly endless but one in particular stood out from the rest when I found it. The Manicuogan reservoir in northern Quebec, Canada is one of the largest meteor craters on the planet and the shape of the lake is truly unique. It was this annular lake that triggered the name Erosion for me and it is the signature shape of the pattern and is part of the logo of the pattern itself.