Does anyone know a good method of making camo nets to suit WW2 german AFVs

I remember a while back people said you could make them using tea bags or something?
thanks

There were a couple of forums posted a few months back about this... Do a forums search and they should come up for you......HTH

Try using "cheese-cloth " it work's very well with good result's.
You get a large quanity for only a couple of buck's.
- ralph

Cheese cloth works really good for cammo. netting. I dono if this is explained in ScreaminEagles post, but you can use pencil shavings. So what you do is get a bunch of pencil shavings, the cammo netting, glass of water mixed with glue, and a sponge. Dip the sponge in the water/glue and then dip it in the pencil shavings, and then dap it onto the cheese cloth. They may start to come off so you may want to do a little bit at a time.

hope this helps,

Mike

ah ok thanks

i couldn't find the old post about the same topic...anyone know what it was called?

Wait until Ken signs on he is the article wizard.

Hi,

One of them:

• camo netting

HTH

thanks Tuga

I will probably use Cheese cloth and tea leaves.

In that old post a bloke called "Cheif", said that he cooked the tea leaves in a cup before letting them to dry before putting them on the net....do u need to cook them first, or just put them on straight from the tea bag?

Benno,

Steep the tea in a large cup of hot/boiling water in a tea-ball. They are generally too hard and shrivelled up before being steeped. You "Commonwealth" chaps should have good tea in leaf form. Remove the ball after you get a good brew. Put the cheesecloth or gauze in the cup for an hour or so and this will dye it a nice khaki-brown color. Do not use green tea for this, the gauze will look like the neighbor's cat pottied on it when it dries. Empty the ball onto a paper towel and squeeze out excess water. Spread the leaves on a cookie sheet and bake dry in a warm oven. You can also mix in Parsley flakes or Dried Crushed Basil for different colors. Spray diluted glue on the stretched out net and sprinkle the "scrim" on, and drape it on the vehicle to dry. Finish off with dullcoat to seal it all. HTH :-)

wow sounds good, can i paint the net afterwards?

I just bought some wedding veil. I´ll try it out with spray glue and tea leaves and spray it with some cheapo dark green car paint.
It may need some CA glue to fit it properly and make realistic drapery but the car paint may do the trick as well...we shall see!



Toni

Here's an addition to what Armor135 posted.

Use parsley as the add-on. Raid the spice cabinet!

In what scale?

Hi Mihai,

At 1/32 - 1/35 it works nice.

HTH

Hi Tuga!

This means I have i different ideea on what cheese cloth means...
How large are the spaces btw the cloth's threads?

About 1.5 mm to 2 mm so it's equivalent to 5 cm to 7 cm in real. Some is more wider.

Gauze from medical stuff also can do the trick.

HTH

Well, that's more like it. Thanks Tuga!

You can use 4" 0r 6" roll gauze as well. for tighter weave try crevats(triangular bandages).

Josh Weingarten
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