A brief update on my Land Rover project for this campaign; I’ve been adding stowage in the form of a rolled camouflage net. The policy amongst the Joint Transport Company when I was at Army Group HQ appeared to be the same as the Brit methodology of Hessian for draped cam with a layer of netting and scrim on top of that, the whole being rolled up together when in transit, which enabled a speedy concealment when the vehicles were stopped or in harbour.
Long suffering members of Kitmaker will recall my use of tea leaves for obtaining a scrim effect. If not see here in this rather protracted thread covering their use on a Leopard MBT:
For a further explanation on the use of Hessian see another project of mine here:
That’s if you wish for the extended versions and are bored.
I needed to replicate the effect of a rolled net so first fashioned a lump of Milliput and located it on the floor of the cargo bed up against the bulkhead. Such nets (and poles) may have been carried on the roof as per Brit practice but on this particular vehicle when we drove to Maastricht, I don’t think it was. The components:
I had mislaid the woven-type adhesive sniper-tape I thought I still had somewhere, to use for the Hessian, so utilised one of those adhesive plasters - they type used for say, covering up kiddies’ skinned knees and the like. It’s overscale but adds some texture. I applied this to nearly half the Milliput. The other half I covered in glue and applied the dried used tea leaves.
I’ll need to touch up some parts and add a few more.
I then checked that it would all work by adding some of the boxes I planned to install:
Not much of the net will probably be seen - I taped a side panel in place to check - but more will be visible from the rear as the canvas flap will be raised as the vehicle is unloaded:
