OLUJ D-tails Zeltbahn 31 Tent is the second product from this small company from Serbia I''m reviewing.

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Nice but remerber me a Tamyia's set produced few years ago !

Well, I visited Alexander while this product was still not for "market sale" and i had a chance to see it in original, im surely planing to get few of theese becouse their colour is very nice and assembly is not a big problem!

this is also nice as the propaganda posters. it really looks like as Pierre mentioned but if i remember well Tamiya paper sheet is harder to make a tent .
and brother Mirko's reference is trustable to pay for it.

The tent is too straight. Zeltbahn tents (I own a 1:1 4 man and 8 man zelt tent) have a tendancy to sag towards the middle of each triangular panel.

Also, one side is usually opened up somewhat, so that the occupants can get in and out without having to unbutton every button. When you do this, you risk collapsing the whole tent because being bent over unbuttoning the damned thing with your gear attached has a tendancy to leave you a bit off balance. In most cases, the 4 man tent has one flap completely open (kind of like an overhang), using 2 or 3 poles in each of the base grommets to prop it up and rope and pegs to keep the poles from falling.

I do believe that you are right. The tent is a little too "featureless." With some wrinkles and sagging, it would probably look very nice.
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Rob

I have to coorect u both on this one, i was present on "test assembly" when Alexander "sprinkled" a mix of white glue-water over the almost finished tent, that helped him to make a sag (a very nice one) and about one side beeing open... u can always cut off (or bent) one side.....

anyways, beeing in Serbia, and only beeing able to get Italeris plastic tent, Alexander's one and for this price is always a better choice for me.

I believe I wrote in the review that what you see on photos is just a copy of real product, printed of thick paper. The real OLUJ D-tails product is printed on very thin paper and you get instructions how to add wrinkles to it. I'm also sure that you can easily add a little sag to tent sides once the paper is soaked in PVA glue and water. It was just not possible on the copy I made, because the ink from my printer would just dissolve in water.




Sure, you can do that. But then you will need to paint interior as it is not printed and you will loose the edge of one of the Zeltbahns, as they overlap on each other and by cutting them you can only have edge on one of overlapping triangles - the other will miss it.

Pawel