by wefalck » Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:54 am
I could also think of strips of black ladies' stockings tightly rolled up and then soaked in diluted matte browninsh paint and finally dry-brushed moderately with some gunmetal. Rather than dry-brushing, going over it with a very soft pencil might be even better. I would first stick a soft copper wire to the end of the strips as a core for rolling up. This wire also allows the rolls to be bent to the needed shape.
Black ladies' stockings stiffened with brownish paint might also be a solution for displaying spread-out torpedo-nets.
Here is an example showing the 1/50 scale model of L'AMIRAL DUPERR� (1879-1909) in the Mus�e de la Marine in Paris:
http://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/ma ... clads.html
Note the samples of the 'real thing' hanging on the left wall of the showcase.
wefalck
I could also think of strips of black ladies' stockings tightly rolled up and then soaked in diluted matte browninsh paint and finally dry-brushed moderately with some gunmetal. Rather than dry-brushing, going over it with a very soft pencil might be even better. I would first stick a soft copper wire to the end of the strips as a core for rolling up. This wire also allows the rolls to be bent to the needed shape.
Black ladies' stockings stiffened with brownish paint might also be a solution for displaying spread-out torpedo-nets.
Here is an example showing the 1/50 scale model of L'AMIRAL DUPERR� (1879-1909) in the Mus�e de la Marine in Paris:
[img]http://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/Paris/073711-72.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/Paris/frenchironclads.html[/url]
Note the samples of the 'real thing' hanging on the left wall of the showcase.
wefalck