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"I did a larger container (40 ounce plastic peanut butter jar) that has survived 7 months in a pack rat nest. \n  \nIt was first thoroughly cleaned to remove all \"food\" odor traces as well as the label - used gasoline, acetone, xylene, and denatured alcohol in several stages. \n  \nNext was to roughen the outer surface including the lid with 320 grit sandpaper in a crosshatch pattern until the whole thing looked like frosted or etched glass. This then got a thin coat of Rustoleum grey automotive primer, followed by a 2nd thin coat, followed with ultra flat khaki camouflage paint. \n  \nThen I took some leaves and twigs and grass native to the hiding area and spread these lightly (about 20% coverage) on the container, and then sprayed a coat of brown camo, using the plant matter as a mask. Next was more leaves, twigs, and grass to increase the coverage (about 60%) and a coat of green camo sprayed throught he gaps.  Final step was more leaves, twigs, etc. to cover about 90% of the container, and spray flat black. \n  \nOnce the \"mask\" was pulled away, the container had a 3 dimensional look to it, with \"foreground\" lighter colored \"leaves\" and \"sticks\" and other shaded darker \"vegetation\" that seemed further behind, and then patches of darker green, and finally very small patches of black. When stuck in real vegetation at the hide, the container just seemed to vanish to the casual eye. \n  \nOf course within hours of placing the cache the pack rat went to work helping to more \"naturally\" conceal it, and every time someone finds it the rat helps re-hide it. Evidently it doesn't like the paint, and it hasn't flaked or peeled or chipped despite a lot of handling. \n  \nBy contrast, I was FTF a new cache near another pack rat nest (81 miles away from mine) which had been wrapped with camouflage tape. The rat had gnawed huge holes in the container in the roughly 72 hours since it was placed and the brand new log had been half eaten with plenty of rodent teeth marks.  \n  \nAnother cool micro was simply an M&amp;M's tube roughened with sandpaper, masked for some glue spots, then painted ultra-flat dark green. The spots masked for glue then had pine needles from an old artificial Christmas tree glued on, plus a piece of stiff wire to hang the thing with, just like an ornament. Yes, the micro was hung about 5 feet off the ground and 3 feet inside a small pine tree. \n"
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