Finished the wiring on the back of the Warrior and made the strange little bulbous antenna out of a spare Leopard 2 smoke discharger. I’ve also added a faint dust coat using Humbrol dust wash and then sealed it in with Vallejo flat varnish.
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This is how we’re looking so far. Apart from the cam net stowage and antennas pretty much everything is done on the hull and turret. I’ve got one Friul track put together, need to sort the other and then paint and weather them. I didn’t manage to get any barracuda style cam net so will have to look further afield or possibly make some.
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If you’re happy with a more generic type of stowed - as opposed to draped - cam net, then you might wish to make your own using used tea leaves as per my, now, ancient Leopard:
Admittedly, what you see is mainly draped, but the materials are the same.
For say. portraying a net rammed into a stowage rack, use a chunk of Milliput or similar; swathe in gauze bandage using diluted PVA glue - not strictly necessary as stowed net hardly ever reveals the net bit - and using more white glue, coat, sprinkle/add, used fresh tea leaves - not the stuff from tea bags, but proper tea. You might have to touch up a bit here and there as some may well escape; once dry, cover with diluted PVA glue, then prime, and paint as necessary. The pieces of scrim in my day were brown one side and olive green the other, so paint accordingly if that’s the effect you’re after.
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Reference my last: for a more recent effort see the back of this Land Rover from the “get Hitched” campaign:
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Looks outstanding!
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Outstanding
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That’s looking like it could be the way forward. Take it that is just tea leaves glued straight to the underlying piece without the gauze? The majority of the “net” will be under the basket cover anyway as per the picture below so wouldn’t even need to do that much.
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Yeah, the Land Rover piece hasn’t any gauze; as I’m sure we agree stowed nets hardly ever display any netting - depending say, how they’re rolled up etc.
Of course, it doesn’t have to be tea leaves, but I identified a brew from Tesco’s whereby all the leaves were more or less, a constant size. I imagine model railway flock would do if you can identify a decent size.
Tea of course, is likely to be cheaper, and one gets to enjoy a really good cuppa(!)
I forgot to mention, the tea leaves must be used; what I do is spread them out on a piece of kitchen towel which drains them, then transfer to the airing cupboard overnight, job done.
Good luck whatever you decide.
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I think I’ll go the tea leaves route, I think it would look better than flock and loose tea is cheap as chips. Though saying that chips aren’t that cheap anymore!
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Now mate, that is exceptional. I think its the nicest Warrior I have seen done. Detailing is top dog and the TES cables look so good and tie it all together.
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Cheers Johnny, coming from the master of detail that means a lot. The tracks will be the end of me though, I dislike indi link tracks at the best of times but have a newfound animosity for Friul tracks. Granted they look good and for this kit due to it’s woeful included tracks they’re a must, however they take so much prep and they’re so heavy. Once they’re on i’ll be gluing the idler and sprockets otherwise I fear them coming off over time.