Any idears on windows?

[Anonymous]

I was wondering if there is any way thats easy to make windos from scrach because I'm up to the chalange and don't want to buy them.

[Anonymous]

I was wondering if there is any way thats easy to make windos from scrach because I'm up to the chalange and don't want to buy them.

[Anonymous]

Glaze with overhead transparency films or the clear plastic that comes as packaging material for so many different items. Some used dryer fabric softener sheets inside simulates lace curtains. Paper can simulate blinds half drawn. Strip styrene for window frames.

[Anonymous]

Glaze with overhead transparency films or the clear plastic that comes as packaging material for so many different items. Some used dryer fabric softener sheets inside simulates lace curtains. Paper can simulate blinds half drawn. Strip styrene for window frames.

[der5997]

gchenier's got it ! I'll just add that masking tape cut into fine strips and laid in a cross pattern on the film or plastic sheets gives you large areas of industrial building window quickly.
1) Snags with this are control in laying the strips.
2) You have to paint the tape to match the colour of the window frame you're using (as you do with gchenier's styrene sttrips). The paint has a tendency to flake off if you've put it on a bit thick (less is more again [:)]
3) In N the strips of tape would be thin. I've ony tried this in HO

Don't forget to add a bottom sill to the window frame. It's a small detail that makes a big difference.

[der5997]

gchenier's got it ! I'll just add that masking tape cut into fine strips and laid in a cross pattern on the film or plastic sheets gives you large areas of industrial building window quickly.
1) Snags with this are control in laying the strips.
2) You have to paint the tape to match the colour of the window frame you're using (as you do with gchenier's styrene sttrips). The paint has a tendency to flake off if you've put it on a bit thick (less is more again [:)]
3) In N the strips of tape would be thin. I've ony tried this in HO

Don't forget to add a bottom sill to the window frame. It's a small detail that makes a big difference.

[Javern]

Krystal Klear

http://www.bare-metal.com/microscale.htm

[Javern]

Krystal Klear

http://www.bare-metal.com/microscale.htm

[Anonymous]

I use among other things overhead projector transparancy film for inkjet printers. I scan the wall and export the print to paintshop. This gives me the exact window sizes. I then draw in cross frames and curtains or binds or have even pasted in pictures of people. I then print, cut, n glue. For dirty dusty windows use plastic milk cartons. They look great in factories and feedmills with clear xmas tree bulbs run at low voltage to give yellow cast to light. Also a really cheap source of windows is the plastic of display packages from store. All these plastics work best glue with gel superglue (ca). I am building a really big building now (10 story hotel) out of acrylic window glase from the hardware store and then adding scribed lines for panes. I am adding facia and balconies out of styrene and floors and walls inside from foamcore.

[Anonymous]

I use among other things overhead projector transparancy film for inkjet printers. I scan the wall and export the print to paintshop. This gives me the exact window sizes. I then draw in cross frames and curtains or binds or have even pasted in pictures of people. I then print, cut, n glue. For dirty dusty windows use plastic milk cartons. They look great in factories and feedmills with clear xmas tree bulbs run at low voltage to give yellow cast to light. Also a really cheap source of windows is the plastic of display packages from store. All these plastics work best glue with gel superglue (ca). I am building a really big building now (10 story hotel) out of acrylic window glase from the hardware store and then adding scribed lines for panes. I am adding facia and balconies out of styrene and floors and walls inside from foamcore.

[Anonymous]

You could try thin strips of balsa wood for the frames and clear film for the windows. Scratch a window or two up with a sharp pointed x-acto knife to simulate a broken window or if in a larger scale a spider web. Even try cutting out a couple little chunks of a broken window and lay them on the ground outside the building like they fell out after the window was broken by some punks on a rampage! [}:)]

[Anonymous]

You could try thin strips of balsa wood for the frames and clear film for the windows. Scratch a window or two up with a sharp pointed x-acto knife to simulate a broken window or if in a larger scale a spider web. Even try cutting out a couple little chunks of a broken window and lay them on the ground outside the building like they fell out after the window was broken by some punks on a rampage! [}:)]

[der5997]

Javern: What is the largest window you have been able to produce from Kristal Klear? I find it OK for things like Loco and vehicle windows, but for buildings??? Also, I find Kristal Klear dries with an uneven look, being thicker at the frame than in the centre. Thisis because it is a liquid going on, and has a meniscus that dries thicker.

flea307: " All these plastics work best glue with gel superglue (ca)."
Don't you find the ca causes the plastic to fog up? If so, have you found a way to de-fog it?

[der5997]

Javern: What is the largest window you have been able to produce from Kristal Klear? I find it OK for things like Loco and vehicle windows, but for buildings??? Also, I find Kristal Klear dries with an uneven look, being thicker at the frame than in the centre. Thisis because it is a liquid going on, and has a meniscus that dries thicker.

flea307: " All these plastics work best glue with gel superglue (ca)."
Don't you find the ca causes the plastic to fog up? If so, have you found a way to de-fog it?

[Anonymous]

The jel doesn't fog if you cut the windows oversize and use a dot in 2 diagonal corners and don't use accelerator. I use Ross ultra superglue gel which is 2 tubes for a $1 at Dollar General Stores. I have only had fog problems with the thin stuff, using accelerator, or too much jel. Also, apply the gel to the building helps.

[Anonymous]

The jel doesn't fog if you cut the windows oversize and use a dot in 2 diagonal corners and don't use accelerator. I use Ross ultra superglue gel which is 2 tubes for a $1 at Dollar General Stores. I have only had fog problems with the thin stuff, using accelerator, or too much jel. Also, apply the gel to the building helps.

[Javern]

Originally posted by der5997

Javern: What is the largest window you have been able to produce from Kristal Klear? I find it OK for things like Loco and vehicle windows, but for buildings??? Also, I find Kristal Klear dries with an uneven look, being thicker at the frame than in the centre. Thisis because it is a liquid going on, and has a meniscus that dries thicker.
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with some practice I have used it on Walthers building kits such as the backshop. I think some of the uneveness that occurs looks good in my real old buildings, like in my house ( old house ) the old windows are kinda wavy and uneven. However if one has a lot of building windows to make perhaps the Kristal Klear is not the best

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