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Good afternoon.

Some of you maybe aware of this. I needed to put some windows in my recently made train shed and did not know what to use! The other day I laminated a notice and as it happened it did not fill the pouch. Looking at the area not containing the paper it struck me it would make good "window glass" So I laminated a pouch, without paper, and low and behold window glass. It is not too thick and is clear.

Hope this is of use?

John

I take it you are referring to a model shed.

Yes. It is double engine shed built from scratch using picture mountboard. New to this model lark, but learning a lot and making mistakes so at the moment it is a steep learning curve.

John

The laminate pouches are a good idea.

I've never used them as they are too delicate, but when clearing out my mother-in-laws garage a few years ago, I found two packs of glass slides, that I assume were to be used with a microscope. They are glass, and about 00 gauge window sized. So if you wanted to be absolutely authentic with a model building you could have real glass windows. Oh! needless to say they are now in my model box - they didn't get thrown away

I just use the clear plastic trays that many food stuffs come in, sticks fine with stupid glue.

Both are good ideas

I'm not sure if it's even still available, but quite a few years ago I bought a pack of printable transparencies to make some OHP slides for a work presentation (told you it was a while ago).
I have used some of those for windows on my loco shed.
Has the advantage that if you want to represent glazing bars you can draw them out on a sheet of paper and then copy it onto the slides using a printer / scanner.

cheshire lines wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:36 pm Both are good ideas

I'm not sure if it's even still available, but quite a few years ago I bought a pack of printable transparencies to make some OHP slides for a work presentation (told you it was a while ago).
I have used some of those for windows on my loco shed.
Has the advantage that if you want to represent glazing bars you can draw them out on a sheet of paper and then copy it onto the slides using a printer / scanner.

I have 3 boxes of those in a cupboard, I have used that technique for windows on scratch built items.

Will be interested to see/hear about your windows. As I’ve said on another thread - I hate doing windows so any tips for success will be much appreciated.