Hello everyone. I have a question about making tarps for 1/48 & 1/35 scale DIOs. I have seen how to make them with tissue laying over things. What I need is help with how to make the tarp rooled up on a tank. Any help would be appreicated…Tony/Hamming
Same technique as the flat ones. Take the tissue and roll and shape it how you want it. Tie it off with some scrap string to hold the shape. Wet it down liberally with diluted white glue and carefully reshape if needed. Let dry. Remove tthe string and paint the tarp as desired. Add straps and you are done.
Good luck.
I agree with HeavyArty, you want to roll it and then put the glue on, not the other way around. If you put glue on it while its flat and then roll it up, it will be like trying to roll a piece of very stick very thin paper and will rip many times. Also, after the first coat of glue it may not be strong enough. You can just do coat after coat of glue until you get what you want, mine ended up feeling like a peace of plastic when I was done. Also to show the texture of the bumps and creases in it, some heavy washing and drybrushing looks great in my opinio, but many of the more experienced modellers would probably tell you drybrushing gives it a “cartoony” or “not realistic” look. Either way works fine, just my preference. Good luck!
For the tissue method, use the tissue paper that comes with mens’ dress shirt packaging or gift box tissue – not Kleenex. Kleenex has a texture that would be completely out of scale for 1/35 or 1/48 scale. You want the end result to be dull and flat but certainly not looking like scale chain-mail or tree bark!
You can also roll up thin sheets of epoxy putty. That’s what S Zaloga does. I love his storage on his models