Camo netting?

Dan

You can buy cheesecloth at any grocery store or WalMart or a craft shop. Cheesecloth comes in a large package that will give you enough material to camouflage 60 or more 1/35 scale models for the price of a set of Verlinden or similar camouflage nets.

It is actually quite comical that if you look back to the SPRING 1983 issue of Fine Scale Modeler Francois Verlinden wrote the article Modeling Camouflage Netting - Or Bandaging Your Tanks. The ingredients as listed in his article for constructing camouflage nets are surgical gauze (or Cheesecloth), White Glue diluted in Water (50/50 mix), coarse model railroad sawdust "grass", and paint.

That is how I have made my camouflage nets for any project.

Cheers;

Gregory

You guys are brilliant! Thanks for all the help. This is so exciting...

when you say the thin paper that comes with the gauze do you mean the bag itself? just wondering, sounds like a good tip. i'll hafta layer my humvee with sandbags now haha.

oh just a note, make sure when you go out to buy the gauze pads, you dont get something like a dressing sponge, the dressing sponges i found in my closet have a very very fine net pattern, but if your working in a scale smaller than 1/35 they'd probably work better, like 1/48 or maybe even 1/72, not sure. just seam too small for 1/35

Use the gauze from from standard sterile pads, they come in squares and expand out to about 5-6 inches, I soak them in a base color and then paint camo patterns on them depending on the terrain. They also have a second use, the layer of solid material can be used to make the bags on sandbags.

I use the sticky green floral putty that comes in rolls, cut a piece about two inches long, double it over and compress using your fingers until it looks like a sandbag.

Next, wrap the putty in the thin paper that comes with the gauge and shape to resemble the tied end of a sandbag. Then paint the whole thing in whatever color is used by the army vehicle you are placing sandbags on. 

This method can be accelerated by an assembly line approach, start with the floral putty and cut all the basic shapes first and go on from that point to complete each sandbag.

The sandbags can be places in any configuration as the putty is flexible. I use all hobby/craft acyrlic paints and they go on with ease to color the sandbags. 

Refer to photos of your armor/bunker, what- have- you to see how they were used. A note from Iraq; just as in Vietnam sandbags were placed on the floors of the Humvees to keep the concusion level down if mines were run over, the sandbags were double-layered, just as with the M-113s in 'Nam. My step-son was a section leader and his Humvee was equiped in this manner, lessons learned from 'Nam.

Good luck ! and hope this helped,

johncpo     

that's what i hear, cheesecloth that is. ive never made one though, but if you're lookin for more like an out of the box kinda thing, im pretty sure verlinden makes one. but the cheesecloth sounds easy enough, where would you get that btw? is that like a gauze wrap? or...

Cheesecloth soaked in diluted white glue, draped onto the tank and dusted with oregano or another dried spice works well.  Once dry, paint the net in the colors you desire.