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I have been experimenting with the use of netting on tanks and guns. I have been looking for a reasonable priced source for Silfor Leafing systems, but so far no luck. I want to get feedback on what you are using and how. Here are some of my attempts at camouflage , please tell me what you think and share your ideas.

I don't see why you would need to do anything else - those look fantastic!

They're realistically draped over the surfaces of the vehicle/gun, and the color scheme makes sense.

Tea leaves.

Use bandage, soak in PVA glue, drap over vehicle and then drop tea leaves over it.

Instant camo nets.

But dont forget they dont tend to drap nets over where gun sights are... Your 88mm crew would have a hard time sighting the gun through that net...

valid points, I am still trying to get it exactly right, thanks for that tea leaf idea...hopefully they will smell and look good. Love the weathering on that tank? Challenger or Chieftain?

Your work looks good. One thing to pay attention to though is where you put the cammo.

Folks who live and fight from armored vehicles tend to not want to obscure things like vision blocks/slits and hatches they need to get in/out of, places where it prevents turret/gun motion. I've seen a lot of great cammo netting and stoage applied places where no real crewman would put it.

I've spent a tiny bit of time on armored vehicles (M1A2s, Bradleys and recon hummers).

Jake

I understand but at this scale its hard to be exact...Its a pain to get that netting to lay down just right. I have been using a white glue and water on a brush and brushing it out on a flat surface to get the net stretched out. then drape it over the tank and adjust from there. I would love to add tent poles and spreaders but i think that would be too fragile


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Has anyone been using green stuff to do a netting bundle on their armor, how is that working? What techniques or styles are you using to apply it?

Those are brill nets mate.

Camo netting helps to hide all manner of issues with the original model as well. Buggered up a paint-job and don't want to re-do the whole thing? Cam-net. Hoover/Pet/Child eaten some vital part of an AT gun? Cam-net. Missed a flash-mark in clean-up or bought an older casting that looked better on Ebay in the pics than it does in your hand? Split that last Division transfer? Yup, Cam-net. Melted a plastic part in a strip-job by accident? Yeah...

Tatty castings love a bit of scrim.

Other than that did you like the net jobs

They do look good. I'm trying to formulate a way of making them drape "to scale". So far (and this is wholly theoretical) I figured it might be possible to place them then sow a fine thread through the net, out of the opposite side and use it to draw the netting in directions it doesn't want to go naturally, creating sharper indentations and giving greater control. If I can figure out how to get that done, I'll let you know. (Or how to explain it properly even.)