I believe this qualifies as off-topic, unless it needs to be moved to tartan.


A project I am working on is a Tartan Army, Tartan Navy, and Tartan Air Force. Essentially, it is tanks, armoured vehicles, helicopters, ships, and planes painted in various tartans. The idea come to me in discussions with a WW2 war gamer (they build model armies and refight battles from WW2), who was building the Italians.

Now, HOW IN THE HECK DO I PAINT TARTAN ON A COMPLEX SMALL SURFACE????????? (like a tank or a plane)



ANY IDEAS?????


If possible, I would like to have real tartans. The plan is one tartan per unit (of which I will probably build models of only one of 2 of any given unit for a diorama or 2).

Visualize:
a diorama of 2 planes in matching tartan and a third of another tartan and type, while on the edge is a tank in tartan. All the men are in tartan kilts, in 1/48 scale. For the kilts, I will use putty (or the white glue and tissue paper trick) and tartan decals wrapped around a "normal" military figure.

I have not yet decided on an era, though an early WW2 seems logical (ala Blackhawk and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), though a 50s or 60s one may work too. I might even do a modern one, imagine a tartan AV-8B Harrier and an A-10 (or Tornado) alongside a tartan Abrams (or Brit tank)!!!

OR is this idea just STUPID???