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| Subject: | Re: Ghillie Suits |  |
| Date: | Aug 24, 2002 |
| From: | Rob Plas | |
I,ve been thinking about this for a long time now because I plan to
(scratch)build a modern British sniper in 120mm scale.
This is what I've figured out so far: I want to use bandage as a base for
the suit, as they are often home made by the troops from old (camo)nets.
Next they weave all sorts of canvas strips and burlap into the nets and add
fresh camo material during the action. I've seen footage from sniper
trainingschool where the wannabee snipers need to advance trough half open
terrain towards 2 instructors who are scanning the terrain with binoculars.
The trainees adjust the foliage sometimes every 2 yards they advance to
blend in with the foliage surrounding them.
Now back to your question:
I plan to paint the whole figure and then ad the netting, draped loosely
around the fig, making some kind of overcoat. Next I want to add white glue
dilluted with water to stiffen the netting. Once dry you can use washes in
green and grey brown to paint the bandage, this worrks remarkely well
without spoiling the camojob underneath.
Next step will be the hard part: add loads of tiny pieces of rope, strips of
bandage and other very fine woven cloth. Repeat the glue/wash step and then
add some foliage. Make sure you will leave "open" spots where you can see
trought the netting, this should give a good result.
It might work in 1/35th as well, but with even finer woven cloth.
hth
Rob |
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