I have a long-term project to be finished - the Downtown Deco Grimm's Funeral Home. I'm not doing it exactly like the box shows, but making some mods to it as I go, like any good kit-basher would. The reason it's taking me a long time is the tick-off factor of some of the assembly. Some days it's all I can do to not hurl it against the wall and be done with it, but I persevere on. My absolute biggest headache right now (besides the junky quality of the castings) is the windows, specifically, how do I do glazing for them? Standard square-cornered windows would not have been a problem, but the ones in this kit have that half-round at the top, and some of the small windows are totally round. I tried doing something on the backs of the windows but that didn't really work out due to the window openings in the castings being tapered from front to back and with glazing on the back the windows sat out too far from the surface of the casting. And I can't seem to cut things down cleanly to sit inside the plastic window castings.
Any other type of construction (wood, plastic, card stock) I could put the window casting in the wall and adhere the glazing on the back of the wall and not have to cut it down to exact size of the window.
Any options? I saw in the Micro Mark catalog a liquid that purports to be able to make window glazing that would theoretically cover the window size I have (HO scale and a max overall length of 2 inches but no open space in the plastic window casting bigger than .25 x .25 inch). Anybody use this stuff? You would think after all these years in the hobby (Eisenhower was in the White House when I started) I'd have a solution.
Any other type of construction (wood, plastic, card stock) I could put the window casting in the wall and adhere the glazing on the back of the wall and not have to cut it down to exact size of the window.
Any options? I saw in the Micro Mark catalog a liquid that purports to be able to make window glazing that would theoretically cover the window size I have (HO scale and a max overall length of 2 inches but no open space in the plastic window casting bigger than .25 x .25 inch). Anybody use this stuff? You would think after all these years in the hobby (Eisenhower was in the White House when I started) I'd have a solution.