Taking a quick diversion from my Catachans, I went back to the ancient rites of gauze camo netting. I wanted a portable camo net that I can remove and place onto vehicles as I wish. In the past, when I used gauze, it was usually a permanent paint job on the model.
So I tried dying some, but the green was not very nice. I ended up painting some gauze in successive thin layers of Vallejo German Dark Camo, then cut a few pieces. Ended up with 3 different sizes.
The challenge with doing this non-permanent thing is that it's easy for the gauze camo-net to end up looking too light and unrealistic. Real life camo nets are heavy. I don't know if I achieved that with these ones, but what I did was that when I draped them over my vehicles, I did a bit of primming and arranging so that it doesn't look like it will fly off (though if the table has a fan too near, it will probably fly off).
Anyways, I'll try these out the next time I play my armored company. And now, back to the Catachans ...
The camo netting effect looks better and more natural on the hydra than the sentinel. But that could be just that I would expect it more on a hyrda than a sentinel. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, it looks way more natural on the Hydra. I think it's got something to do with the size of the model. The piece of gauze for the Sentinel is too big for it
DeleteI share the same thought as FEM. That Hydra looks good with camo netting.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Which is a good thing, because in my Armored Company-themed Battle-forged list, the thing actually has camo-netting :)
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