Need some advice

Here's something that might help cormac it's called sailcloth it's at

http://modelexpo-online.com/
This is in catolog #3 early summer 2004 there are a lot of other useful things too.

I´d stay clear of the cloth. Have you considered regular kitchen aluminium foil?

Thank you all for the responses . The whole thing is still in the planning phase, and apparently it's designed to make sure that between my two hobbies I never, ever , have any spare cash.
Renarts, I won't be at Pensic, but I'll look for you at GulfWars next March.

Cormac

Cormac,

For 1/35 you could use a very tight woven muslin. Since most SCA pavillions are made form a 10oz. cotton duck you should be ok with the muslin once its been painted or treated. The tissue might work, since companies like panther and tentmasters use a very fine canvas duck in the production of their tents, but in all honesty I'd think it would be more trouble than the muslin. As it can be more fragile and at 1/35 you're going to be working with large sections of it. Especially if your encampment has large pavillions like marqees or even the rented tents. The tissue is more suited to more stable subjects like rolled tarps and covers on tanks or smaller tents like pup tents or shelters.

See ya at Pennsic?

Mike

Welcome aboard

I think you'd be wise to stay clear of using tissue paper for canvas at that scale, simply because it wouldn't have enough texture to it. Something like paper towel or napkins might work better, assuming you can find a suitable texture pattern.

There is a cloth used for model ship sails but, unfortunately, I can't remember what it is called right now.
The other thing I would check out would be cheap paper towel, the stuff that isn't "quilted" or otherwise textured. I wasn't around in 1066 but I imagine the canvas was pretty heavy and regular tissue would be too light.