The title is quite self-explanatory. Basically i have got my Challenger 2 and i want to make a good looking camo net to go over the top of the turret. i am not talking about a camo tent whoch the tank sits under, this net will be drapped over the turret. My best idea so far is using medical gours, cutting it to shape dipping in in PVS glue and water than sprinkling large tea leaves over the top ofit, then airbrushing it with relavant colours. If someone has got a better less complicated way then i would be glad to hear it. I have not yet made my camo net in the way i have suggested so i dont know if it would work or not.

thanks again

I don't think gauze and tea leaves would be the best method for modern camo nets... I have tried it and wasn't satisfied with the result. Modern camo nets are plastic and have regular pattern:



I still don't know the way to replicate that in scale, so if you think of something good, please let me know...

Mario M.

Since I can't find modern style camo netting for scale models sold
anywhere I've accepted that I'm just going to have to make it myself.

I took a piece of plastic from a white plastic trash bag and cut it up
like a modern camo net.

Then I super glued it onto course mesh guaze and then stretched it out
a bit. I just made a small strip, (making the tiny cuts is tedius) to
see how it looks. I'm pretty pleased.

For woodland camo pattern I can try two things. Use pieces from brown,
green and black trashbags, or use permenant markers and draw the camo
patern on a white trashbag.

Shagnifico,

Welcome to the site!! I must say your username is quite descriptive!! I wonder what you like doing?? Hint, hint, nudge, nudge

I like your idea!! My wife is into scrapbooking and stamping. If I am not incorrect I think she has a patterned scissors that would take the tediousness out of cutting the pattern.... I'll take a look and see...

Cheers!