Cheers Tim ,great adviceThere are several other things you can do Tyron. The first is pick a brush with a good sharp point. This needs to be big enough to do the job. OOOO type brushes simply do not hold enough paint. For a 1/35 figure like this I would use a number 1 sized brush.
The second thing is to dilute the paint until it flows well off the brush. Don’t use your sharp brush to mix the paint......you will quickly wreck the point. Use an older second quality brush.
When you get the paint to the right consistency, check it before painting on the model...... dip your good brush into the paint up to one third of the bristle depth. Once you’ve done this, unload the brush on a sheet of cartridge paper and test the flow. This step is important, it will stop the paint flooding off of the brush onto the model and give you control, only allowing paint to flow when you want it to.
Doing all of this may sound long winded, but it will give you much better brush control. it becomes second nature very quickly.
Once you have this off pat there are other things you can do to make the webbing “pop” off of the figure....outlining and highlighting being two of them. Get the brush control down first though, it is useful in so many ways.
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You're getting there - keep aiming high, don't knock yourself out if you can't do it within a week.My reality
I was actually looking for a photo of the inner face of the pouch to illustrate your description of how they attach to the belt and the shoulder strap, but came across this insteaddidn't realize that there was a video of it out there!
I’ve got some US Army ALICE canteen carriers that have what US troops call “fish fur” (polyester pile) on the inside. I’ve not tried wetting that, but it does work fairly well to keep aluminium drinks cans cool in hot weather And, oddly enough, an Israeli once told me their canteen carriers didn’t have that when she was a conscript — you would kind of expect them to have the climate where you’d want this sort of stuff.Water bottles are good on a hot day, soak the felt, and it keeps the water cooler, though they're a lot heavier than they look!
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