Painting green windows on single piece canopies using Tamiya Clear Green?

You might be able to tint some Future with acrylic paint and dip them.  I had pretty good luck tinting a canopy pale blue.

Gary

Yeah but if I dip the whole canopy I'm liable to get the clear green all over the canopy.  The canopy is looking a bit second hand already (due to my ineptitude in gluing a piece of plastic at the bottom to use as a tab to keep it in place).

I think I'll try what I'm thinking of doing, masking off the parts I don't need to paint clear green and then airbrush it, if I mess it up I can at least remove it with fairy powerspray if I need to.

According to a thread on Swannys model site I came across after posting here someone has had good results with un-thinned Tamiya clear green airbrushed in layers onto windows, so hopefully I'll be able to get the same results.

Yes, masking off the rest and then airbrushing the inner surface of the greenhouse windows works just fine. You will need to thin the Tamiya paint as you do any other Tamiya paint for airbrushing.

Thanks, I'm going to give it a go tomorrow so I'll see how it goes.

I nearly had a disaster on my hands today whilst spraying some parts of the Academy 1/35 Bell 47 HTL-4 USCG I've been working on.  

I was taking the gravity feed pot off my airbrush to rinse it out and I didn't keep it over my work mat and at an angle so it wouldn't drip...

...and I dripped a couple of drops of Vallejo Model Air black on the tablecloth on the table I paint at (our dining room table)... 

...luckily it came out in the wash!!

I have found that future tinted with food color works out fine..

i will have to try this.