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I want to make gillie suits for my snipers, any tips

hmm... if your sniper already has a cape, maybe prime it black, and glue on tiny strips of alternating colors of cloth in the colors you want for the ghille suit.

like, so small you'd have to use tweezers. I'd use like an elmers (white) glue. If you wanted to make hoods, you could green stuff one on, shouldn't be that hard, as your going to cover it with strips of fabric anyway.

Just my first idea

Strips of very thin plasticard . Cut through to make frills . Then glued on in layers. Could work.

Crepe bandage. Cut into thin strips and glued on, one layer at a time.

Finish with a layer of pva, prime and drybrush. et voila, one head gamekeeper(tm) suit.

I just did some for some 15,, Sci Fi figures. I cut up a gauze bandage and painted the different parts in very diluted paint using various browns and a green. My intent was to make 15mm Ghilli suits. Once dried I cut up portions of the gauze into what ended up being little threads, mixed them all together. I painted a diluted white glue onto the snipers' blankets and then tried to put on the threads. I did not get the effect I was really after, the gauze threads are too big for the scale and were not cut short enough. Having said that, it was 'good enough for Jake' so I kept it. I think in 28mm/40k scale you could do this and make it look great. Remember the washer these are based on is only 3/4 of an inch in diameter.

Jake

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/236261.page

sp: ghillie

Thanks that works really well,

I tried actual dried grass, but a bit big