Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Adventures with Gauze


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 ...



4 comments:

  1. 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. :)

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    1. Yes, 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

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  2. I share the same thought as FEM. That Hydra looks good with camo netting.

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    1. Thanks. Which is a good thing, because in my Armored Company-themed Battle-forged list, the thing actually has camo-netting :)

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