LoL Dave,
Hmmmmmm, How did I know that about the panty hose? Well, at one time when I was married, I had about $3,500 worth of plastic model kits, 134 of them total of aircraft, helicopters, and armor. Along with another $1,500 worth of air compressors and air brushes and paint and accessories.
Among my many models were models of the M923A1 BIG FOOT TRUCK, the M548A1 TRACKED CARGO CARRIER and other "covered" vehicles like the M577 FORWARD COMMAND vehicle, all of which had either a "tarp" or camo netting draped over them. Well, Netting and tarps are really hard to make out of plastic, so the models dont come with those.
Being the amazing and highly creative person I am lol, I knew most fabric was too thick to use on the 1:35 scale models and I also knew that fabric "sucks up" paint. So, being resourceful, while drinking my beer and working on a model, I had to take one of the ex wifes knee high hose from the dog who almost always nearly choked to death on them....and looking at the color, a flat sand brown, decided that I would stretch a piece of it over the cargo aea of the "M923 BIG FOOT". After gluing it in place with superglue on two corners I found that I could stretch the fabric so the "ribs" of the cargo area of the trucklooked right, then I glued the rest of it down.
When I found out that I could take some small plastic greenery from wayward christmas decorations and snip them into small "leaves" and insert them into the mesh of the fabric for camo I was happy. But then I found out that this fabric doesnt "suck up" paint either, it takes very little paint to paint this material with an airbrush.....almost so little it aint worth loadin up the airbrush lol. Guaze was another material I found that works for canvas when needed, but it doesnt have that "form fitting" property that allows the ribs of the cargo area to stand out.
So, now you know how I knew lol. One other thing, and I have mentioned it before, bread tie twist wires w/o the paper make great antenna on armor. A drop of white glue or clear fingernail polish dries clear over guages giving the appearance of glass over the guage and red fingernail polish works great for tail lights when you are out of red paint.
have a good evening,
Greg aka GW
ps, sorry to have hijacked this thread miss Lizzy, I return control over to you lol.