I have been making Tarps and bedrolls from tissue papaer in a white glue mixture. i am really not happy with the results. Does anyone have a beeter way of doing it?

I have worked with a few materials and I agree with the tissue paper. Mine always looked like glued tissue paper!
I started working with a product called Magic Sculpt (MS). Comes in 2 parts. there are a lot of 2 part epoxies out there so you will need to try all before you like one over another. The reason I like the MS is the way it can be rolled out super thin and the way it takes on "tarp" like characteristics. You can take two 1/4 inch balls, roll them together and make 10 or more really cool tarps, bags, bed rolls, etc! The ONLY thing you have to do is (1) work on a piece of glass or clean plexiglass and (2) coat everything in corn starch. Lite coat. I use an acrylic handle paint brush, 1/2 inch diameter, coat in starch, coat the surface (and keep putting small amounts down and moving the MS around so it won't stick, and roll it out. make it as thin as you want. starts to harden in about 30 minutes and total done in 8 hours. Brush off the extra starch and you are ready to paint!!!
Email me if you have any questions.

Bob

The beauty is that once you have worked with the putty long enough to get a feel for it, and how to trim it, etc, you can do things with it that you can't do with tissue. For example, put grommet holes in, or long lines of stitching, or seams, etc. This goes a long way in making the "fabric" look softer than tissue and white glue, except that in reality it is far stronger. And also, you can use the two part putty to make variations in, say, Blast's great product line by using the two part putty to do rolls and tarps which fit into the same lay and look as the Blast product, and you can make a kit that was designed to fit one specific vehicle, fit another.

Also, when I needed to do a figure of a wounded US tanker getting a plasma drip on the battlefield, I needed a torn jacket sleeve and a bare arm, so I used a bare arm from another figure and rolled out a very think layer of two part putty, then gave it a torn or cut look to expose the arm above the elbow, and then at the sleeve cuff, I pressed in the distinctive knitted cuff. Looks good, and best of all, it is really 3D, not just one piece of plastic.

It's great stuff, don't be afraid of it, experiment with it. Have fun. Make a mess. Make your mom come out of retirement to get you on the right path again!