How to Frost clear windows and ports .

Tanker - Builder

Now for those wheelhouses in larger scale . Sheet plastic , again .010 clear styrene strips . Frost the strips with model cement ( the liquid type ) ( I find Testors or plain old lacquer thinner to work best ) .One swipe in one direction with a wide brush is all that's needed .

Hey T.B. - good info, look forward to trying one day!!  Just to clarify - are you saying you can use the laquer thinner to attach the strips to the plastic window or to use the thinner to coat the window to frost it? tks!!

Don ;

 That's when you have to get inventive . I haven't bought a Binnacle or other wheelhouse hardware in years . Problem is , in miniature , the new style bridges don't look right . T.B.

I definitely think this is a good thread.  I hate seeing a war weary bomber, heavily weathered, but with canopy or windows futured to look pristine.  Same thing with heavily withered ships.  I have sometimes airbrushed a thin coat of dullcoat on windows.  One thing I do for areas with windows but no interior detail is paint the inside area flat black.  I have even, in a few cases, actually painted back side of windows black, but only for very small windows.

Fortunately, for some of those larger scale models, if you do decide to furnish interior of bridge, you can still get binnacles, wheels, and chadburns, though such ship accessories are fading from the scene- fewer vendors of ship accessories these days.