Saturday, October 25, 2008

Adding Glass to Windows

Plastic kits offer excellent detail, especially these days. However many of the kits still only offer basic windows, a plastic window with a clear piece of plastic for glass, this also goes for vehicle making.

Many modellers try and add the glass last or at least towards the end, I found this rather hard especially having large hands. So I adopted a different approach.

Instead of building most of the kit and attempting to slide the clear plastic in place, prepare the window area on the outside, undercoating and even painting if necessary.

Cut the clear plastic so it overlaps the window by some margin.

Hold the unconstructed side with tweezers and apply the glue to the underside of the kit, mainly on the overlap areas, now lay the unconstructed model on top of the clear plastic and leave to set.

The end result should give you clear windows, instead of the smudged glue on the panes.