Military dioramas often have lots of interesting supplies and stuff like that. And of course they are often covered by a tarpaulin. So, how do you make a nice group of supplies covered by a tarp? Well, Glen has done just this and you can learn how to do it in this tutorial on making tarp.

You can have a lot of fun with this project by putting all kinds of supplies under the tarp. It can be a few things or a lot of things.

And you can improvise a lot of these materials.

Here is the completed project

• Materials required.
• Dowel
• Polystyrene (thin sheet)
• Toilet Tissue
• PVA
• Paint  Brushes
• I used crates and oil Barrel that i had at 1/72 scale, cut up polystrene and dowel to size

You then arrange the polystrene and dowel how you like. And remember you can use all kinds of raw supplies to make these crate and barrel shapes. You could even do mortar shells shapes and well... all kinds of things that need to be covered by a tarp.

mix up 50%PVA with 50%water

Here is the mixture.

You need to dip the toilet tissue into the PVA and the let it fall over the crates and barrels, using a stirring stick drape the paper over.

This picture shows placing the wet tarp over the barrels and crates

You can add bits of paper if it splits or tears with out a problem, you need to let it then dry overnight.

You then need to paint them, i used a light and dark colour, put on some black for oil stains and then a light black wash

Once you have done this you need to trim of what you dont require and there you have the finished product.

Here's the Tarp in action!

And here is the truck and tarp in a diorama. You can see more about this diorama right here.

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