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  • Member since
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  • From: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Camouflage netting
Posted by Recon89 on Friday, October 11, 2013 5:45 PM

Have an M7 Priest diorama in mind.  What can I use for camouflage netting?  Will be working in 1/35 scale.

Thanks.

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Friday, October 11, 2013 5:52 PM

You can buy camo netting, Verlinden does some. But I have heard of people using gauze dipped in thinned white glue and painted.

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, October 11, 2013 9:26 PM

Yeah, WWII netting is kind of difficult to replicate where it has the burlap strips woven into the mesh. For a rolled stowed net, gauze or cheesecloth works well enough.

 

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  • From: Wichita, Kansas, USA
Posted by Recon89 on Saturday, October 12, 2013 7:29 AM

Thanks everyone.  I was wanting to use netting over the M7 to replicate a picture from a book.  Just thought this morning that with stage prop experience, they use small hairnets over wigs for storage.  Maybe that might be the right size.

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Posted by Raualduke on Saturday, October 12, 2013 12:34 PM

As stikpusher suggested cheese cloth/ tack cloth works well.tack cloth is usually in three or four layers but is easily pulled apart

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  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Monday, October 14, 2013 9:46 AM

i picked up a yard of bridal veil. stretch it out and paint it. like everything else once it's painted you have to "mould" it to make it look like it's draped; can't just pit it on the vehicle and let gravity do it. for rolled up or as a deployed net on poles works well.

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Posted by Recon89 on Sunday, December 8, 2013 9:10 AM

I picked up some bridal tulle and it works well for 1/35 scale.  Spiraled some narrow lengths and thin thickness of putty on the tulle to replicate designs on the netting.  Used 1/16" wide tape around the perimeter to "seal" the sides and painted.  Worked OK.  Thanks for the help.

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  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Friday, December 20, 2013 9:46 PM

you can also spry it and sprinkle oregano or diied parsley for some additional texture. if i have an awful seam on a modern tank gun barrel i'll wrap it in camo like the europeans do.

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Posted by Bocks Suv on Friday, January 17, 2014 2:40 PM

Dried parsley. Riiiiiight. From Colorado??

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, January 17, 2014 2:58 PM

Recon89

I picked up some bridal tulle and it works well for 1/35 scale.  Spiraled some narrow lengths and thin thickness of putty on the tulle to replicate designs on the netting.  Used 1/16" wide tape around the perimeter to "seal" the sides and painted.  Worked OK.  Thanks for the help.

I like that idea.

 

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