 Helo 53 wrote: |
| I also really like the Tarp over the cockpit . How did you make it ??? |
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John,
The "tarp" is the only way that I could think of to cover up the gaping hole where the "door" should be. Really a very simple process, I cut a piece of kleenex to the approx size, wet it down to form it to the shape that i needed and then once it was mostly dry painted it OD Green. Once that dryed I drybrushed it with some dark earth color and used white glue to secure it. I think that I also took a q-tip and rolled it along the flat areas to ensure that it was laying flat where it should be. The method that I used differed slightly from what I have read before of adding the white glue to the water when you are first forming the tarp.
As was stated earlier I will be adding some straps to make it look secured to the bird. Think that I am going to use some masking tape cut very thin and then painted the same color.
The camo is all Tamiya acrylic colors. Base coat is the tan (been so long that I cannot remember the exact color) then on to the green with the final and most trying part the dark earth outlines. Sealed it all with future and then used artists oil paints to weather it up. In my experience Helicopters (at least military ones) arent that clean all the time, so I had some fun weathering this one. After decals were done I went back and drybrushed some wear marks here and there. All airbrushing was done with my Badger 250 and freehand.
To all - Thanks for all the comments! Again thanks for looking.
Merry Christmas,
Matt