Canvas over loads

[hminky]

On one of the forums someone suggested aluminum foil for canvas over loads. Aluminum foil doesn't paint well and tissue falls apart. What about painting the tissue onto the aluminum foil?

A quick put together with packing tissue and heavy duty aluminum foil over an HO wagon. The tissue painted to the foil with Kilz2 primer.

Just a thought
Harold

 

[dthurman]

Nice tip Harold. I wonder how that will scale to N scale.

You have some great stuff!

 

[hminky]

I forgot to add that the "canvas" is made as a rectangular tarp and draped on the object like it were cloth. Here is a picture of the "tarp". It is a sandwich of foil and tissue. It is formed over the load.

It should scale to N scale

Harold

 

[RCH]

Very nice, and a much better effect than the method I used in the past (drizzling 50:50 water white glue over toilet paper). I'll have to give this a try for my grain hopper trailers. Thanks for the tip.

 

[hminky]

Here is the second tarp applied over the load. The barrel was moved to the middle. This is the facial tissue.

I have done drizzling over tissue and it really doesn't work well especially if there are any water soluble areas on the model.

Harold

 

[PNKFLOYD]

I have used old fabric softner sheets from the dryer that had ALL the chemical softner gone. I paint the sheet with craft (acrylic) paints in a pastel color to similate weather canvas. I scatchbuilt a couple boyscout tents this way and the sheets hold their shape to be glued down.
VERY cheap!