>Digitized Beaded Camo Print

The other day, Allison commented on my last military post. She said (when I am finished creating this M1 Abrams main battle tank), my beadwork will "unfortunately look like the new digitized camo print... " I hope she's right- I want it to look like that! You can see a sample of the digitized camo HERE. Now look at a close up of my beadwork - do you think it looks similar?

If I were going for one of the old style camouflage prints, I would stitch in completely different directions, but since I want it to look like the new camo, I am stitching in straight lines. The one thing that is making it difficult is that I am using 2 different size seed beads - 15/o and 11/o. So, the beaded lines aren't exactly perfect... :o

Semi-beaded M1 Abrams main battle tank.

17" wide x 5.5" tall (40 x 13cm)

I still don't know what I'm going to do for the wheels & undercarriage of the tank, so I put a set of metal washers there to give you an idea of how it might look. They seem to fit perfectly, though! How do you think it looks so far? And, what do you think I should use for the wheels??