discussion malcolm hart

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Hi! I am scratch-building a 1930s London Transport bus in 1/16th scale, about 20" long overall, and I'm having great difficulty in finding window glazing material of between 0,5-0,7mm thickness. There are lots of materials about, but I am after something which does not scratch easily, so if anyone has any ideas or suggestions for material and supplier, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

 

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Hi and a warm welcome to the forum. I hope you find something useful here and get some answers to your questions regardig the bus. You'll have to send some pictures, it certainly sounds a bit different and interesting.

As for your windows I would look at the sort of material you find used as clear wrappings and boxes for goods in shops, particulalry of the fancy goods variety and more around christmas. Think of the type of clear lids you find on christmas card boxes, that's the type of stuff.

You find it a lot nowadays in various thicknesses used as packaging and there might be some of that around for you to cut up. I always seem to be throwing the stuff away so there is plenty of it around.

It is flexible though so you might have problems if your windows are too large. I used the very stuff for the windows on my steam coaster bridge but don't forget, do not use superglue or it will cloud. You have to use a water based glue such as PVA.

 

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Just a thought, not sure on it's actual thickness, but what about transparency paper. The stuff used for overhead projectors. I have used it for quite a while for scratch covers for Palm Pilots and other hand held tiny computers. These use a stylus on the screen and last quite well. It is also quite popular for use in Dolls houses.

Being cheap and easily available it should be worth looking at. Or should that be through!