Scatter Terrain - 2 Playing with Tarps

Nothing new on the 3D modelling side but I have had a play with doing some tarps. In the past I have used tissue and thinned PVA glue to do tarps but I have never been a huge fan of them, so I had a search on ling and found this article and thought I would give it a go.

So these are my first attempts. It is still a work in progress as I am trying different sealants and thickness of tissue. These two are three ply tissues and I have not taken any of the sheets out, I currently have drying a two and a one sheet to see how they compare.

The banding is just some 0.5mm styrene strip.

I also did a second but didn't take pictures of it at the same stage.

I decided to give the two of them a very quick paint job to see what the tarps look like once painted.

Keep in mind these are just test pieces and very rough. I didn't even bother painting the underside or the back of the stowage.

The banding on the second pallet was some 0.25 sheet I cut into strips. I won't have the banding like this on the final pieces however, I just added them for effect and to see what they look like over the tarps. The final ones will probably have a horizontal band (to hold all the stores together) then a couple of vertical ones to hold the stores down on the pallet.

Overall I am happier with these tarps than the earlier PVA based ones. I will continue to experiment though to see if I can get them better. I will be using the pallet & stores from the ZM test games to play around with so I've got plenty of scope to try things out.