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Stowage, baskets, bedrolls and tarps

Stowage Brigade have some of their new stowage available which makes a change from the usual pre-painted vinyl Hobbymaster stuff I usually use. Having snipped them from the sprues, I sprayed then green and sand colour and, while that was drying, hand painted the baskets I had put onto the Slammers vehicles (which were - inconveniently - already painted) in Army Painter gun metal. I also sprayed the Brits from Brigade in Desert Yellow. Green Stuff Tarps and Bedrolls Although I have no ‘work in progress’ shots of the Blowers, I do have some of the Brits so I’ll show the process using those examples. Green stuff Kneadaite is mixed and flattened out and allowed some time to go off and lose a little stickiness. Then it’s rolled and stretched into flat sheets and cut into squares the square are rolled into ‘sausages’ but not tightly, so that the loose, rolled ends are still visible. Those bedroll type shapes are then forced into position with the edge of a scalpel, using any cuts and indents made in the soft putty as the start of a strap detail. While still wet, other items are forced into the putty so that it conforms around them where possible. This can be stowage items (like the ones on the Slammers shots further in) or, like the shots on this page, items from the ‘brick-a- brack’ box: in this case bits of pre-painted under-carriage from an aircraft diecast, but they could be anything that looks convincingly anonymous but technical...

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