I found some on a website that was out of stock. I wouls like to make my own for a 1/35 tank (rolled up with leather/rope/wire) as well as for a cammo tent over a howitzer position (held up with tent poles). Any ideas?

I make my own. For rolled up vehicle mounting try using medical gauze sprayed in whatever colour needed, you can pick it up from any first aid supplier. For open nets, use the same gauze, painted and add terrain flock/leaf matter glued in patches. It looks quite realistic, is cheaper than paying a small fortune for a verlinden cam net and you get quite a few pieces of gauze per pack.

Gunner-Steve is right. Why pay 10-15 bucks for something that you can easily make yourself for an investment of $2.00 for materials and twenty or so minutes of your time?

Too right... medical gauze works very well and is the right size and scale. If you want something bigger ie. a larger square pattern, then you can try wedding tulle fabric or look in a craft store for decorative fabrics and veil netting.




Bob

In 1/35th you could also try fishnet stockings with holes a suitable size. For the hessian strips you could use tissue paper cut to shape and applied with diluted white clue then spray the lot. haven't actually tried this but have given it some thought and think it might work.?

On the same subject (sorry for the thread hijack...): How would you create the modern type nets which are not just nets but have that structure on it to make them look like leaves? Like this one. Or are they available somewhere?

Cheerio!

Another cheap alternative and one that I think looks better than gauze is cheesecloth. You find it in the grocery store. The fibers aren't nearly as tight as gauze and I think that makes it more realistic.

Steve

Hello Shannon,

following article by Ingvar Sylegård should help you.

thats an awesome technique, thanks for sharing. .

Try this:



Ignore the primitive rendering. It was a 5 minute Photoshop job.

All that needs to be done, after painting, is to glue the strips in random patterns onto gauze or cheesecloth. I've gotten good results from this.

The stocking plus strip method.