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. The "canvas" is made as a rectangular tarp and is draped like a real tarp.
Just a thought
Harold

 

[webmaster]

If you use tissue/plain toilet paper, then spray it with water from a plant mister, the tissue goes hard after it has dried & you can paint it.

 

[hminky]

Here is a picture of a "tarp". It is a sandwich of tissue and foil. It is formed over the load.

Harold

 

[hminky]

Sorry to be so scattered today but here is a second tarp over the load. The barrel has been moved to the center. Facial tissue was used this time.

The old tarp is in the foreground
Harold

 

[davidstrains]

neat idea, Harold. I am going to try that or a load on a n-scale flat car.