Scratch built DAK camo net. Any thoughts?

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I’m building the revised Tamiya Sd.Kfz 223 with the photo etched antigrenade canopy. I like it a lot and look forward to completing it, but I don’t like the camo net (plastic lump) provided with the kit. I asked my mother to crochet something and well, it didn’t work out.[;)]

Does anyone have any thought on how to scratch build an actual 1/35 scale camo net?

Thanks,

David

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[#welcome][#welcome]
Get yourself some gauze. Soak it in a mixture of white glue and water. Then form it to the shape you want and let it set. If you want, you can add tea leaves to it as well. Then paint it the colors you want. Airbrushing works really well. Finish with drybrushing. You can also use tole. HTH

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If you can find gauze at a med. suppy store that works great IMO. Make sure it’s just gauze and not the stuff that has the xtra fabric in it for wounds. You can fold it and roll it up just like the real thing.Wet it down with some dilluted white glue, fold and roll,I take fishing line or fine thead and tie around where the straps will go. Once it’s dry I use either masking taking tape folded over and cut thin for straps or lead foil works great too. You can paint and weather it with either acryls or enams. The stuff works great for unfolded or draped camo too. Wedding vail also works good but is harder to find,at least around here.This may give you an idea.Have fun

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Awesome! Thanks for the response. I’ll post the finish product.

Thanks again,

David

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[#welcome] jifor
Hey STUG61 great build. Sorry just had to say that.

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If you can’t get gauze, try a haberdashery (where you buy material to make clothes and curatins and stuff) for cheese cloth. Get the loose kind, you can pull the loose threads through to make the netting holes any size you want. The beauty of this is that you can also make large open canopy netting if you want, whereas gauze is limited by it’s width.

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Habadawhat??? Here in hicksville where I live that sounds like a methlab!!![;)]

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I use gauze , like most of the members who replied . To simulate " scrim " , ( bits of cloth , hessian , etc.) on the camnet , I use thin strips of masking tape , or tissue paper . On my M-60’s ( A1, A2 , and A3 ) , I used gauze , with the contents of a tea bag added on , and it looks great , for modern camnets .
Frank
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And who said modelling wasn’t educational… here we are expanding vocabularies.

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Vocabuwhat???[;)][swg]