Huey cabin roof windows - how to paint them green?

Pledge Klear or Johnson Pledge Multi Surface Wax Cleaner 750ml Formerly known as Johnsons KLEAR

From £4.95 on a well known auction site, or a lot less than that from your favourite supermarket!

Google " Swannys Complete Future for all you need to know about it, inc. techniques like dipping & tinting.

Some people swear by it, some at it! your mileage may vary...

To Glue your canopy, try Microscale Kristal Clear, Deluxe Materials Glue And Glaze, Gatorglue,  PVA-like glues that don't mark transparencies.

Even LOW-ODOUR super glue, provided you have dipped the canopy in Future/Klear/Pledge!  

Edit: with regard to Decals, they go down best on gloss surfaces, some people gloss where the decal is to go, then apply decal, & then mat/semi/or gloss varnish the whole aircraft (excluding the canopies!)

Some people separate decal from sheet in a bowl in the traditional way & then dip in Future to help it snuggle down, read Swannys site for more info.

The Blue tint on the Wasp is excellent, BTW!  

Cool thanks, that Swannys site seems very useful.

Thanks for the info on clear cements for windows.  I have noticed in the past (when I was a kid, some 20 years ago) that when I glued a cockpits windows they always looked a bit rubbish because I could see the glue.  Especially with superglue because you can see where it's crystallised between the surfaces.  Of the ones you've mentioned I will probably go with the Microscale product, I found it on ebay and looking for the others it seems they cost just about as much.

Still, it's another £5ish I'm spending on stuff that I really shouldn't be - when I started this project I planned on keeping the costs to rock bottom as I'm short on cash, each time I come to do something now I seem to need to buy something new. 

Humbrol clear Green(1325)

Or Tamiya Gloss Clear Green (EX25)

KEEP CALM

     and

CARRY ON

MODELLING!

Any consumables such as Tamiya Clears, MicroScale, glues, brushes, if looked after, will last years!

(unless knocked over, but let's not go there right now....)

I have brushes & paints older than my children!

You don't say where you live, but google model shops in your location, you will often find that the staff are very knowledgeable, full of err.... advice,  & prices are often the same as the web, minus postage

I live in the UK, Essex, North Essex to be precise, 16 miles from Colchester and 11 miles from Chelmsford.

To my knowledge there aren't any half decent model shops I can get to (I don't drive).

Anyway, it's Fairy Power Spray and Tamiya Clear Green for the win!!

I sprayed some Fairy Power Spray (I bought some last year for an Airsoft pistol project and never used it) on the cabin roof windows I painted and left it for an hour, and hey presto off came the paint, no marks or anything.  Excellent.

I've now dipped the pieces in neat Tamiya Clear Green (basically I dipped the pieces in the pot), which might have been a bit of an error but I thought I'd give it a go - one window appears to have turned out reasonably well, the other window seems to have had a darker area pool on one side, unfortunately, but I'm reasonably happy with how they've turned out, considering I'm a noob at doing tinted windows.  Without a lot of practise I doubt I'll get it right any time soon, without an airbrush at least.

Also...

..it turns out that in 1997ish my mother bought some Johnsons Wax floor polish, guess what it's called?

Yep - Klear!

Bonus.  She's got a whole 500ml bottle of it and she's never used it, so that saves me £5ish.

I tried it on a spare piece of sprue and whilst it did make the piece more shiny I'm not 100% convinced I like how it looks but I'll see how it goes on the actual windows...

Hi ;

Heres a tip for that right out of CHRISTMAS ! .

    You know all about those craft kits of " suncatchers " that proliferate the stores at this time of years .The GREEN paint is very translucent and works well on transparent model pieces either sprayed from an airbrush (spray it wet ) or a fine makup fan brush .

" I sprayed some Fairy Power Spray.... on the cabin roof windows I painted and left it for an hour, and hey presto off came the paint, no marks or anything.  Excellent."

Good to know Raven...

Wonder what it means when I got a household job to do & I raid my modelling supplies for cleaners, acrylic floor shine, or medical supplies..... 

Don't ever contact Italeri regarding spare parts.  It's a nightmare...

I've been going round and round asking if they can sell me spare cabin roof windows for the ESCI UH-1D I'm building.  First off they emailed me back with instructions for a 1/72 UH-1.  Now they've emailed me back, after I indicated the part numbers of the parts required, to tell me the kit is a 1/72 kit - which I had already pointed out to them twice and advised them I need the parts in 1/48.

I also asked if they take Visa Debit cards.  They're response, twice, is that they take only Visa and Mastercard.  Call me pedantic but that could mean they do take Visa Debit cards, or they only take Visa Credit cards.

I don't know if something is getting lost in translation, the guys who have been emailing aren't the best at using English, to be expected of course as they are Italian, but they don't seem to quite get the simple questions I've asked.

Anyhoo, I've emailed them back again today, again asking for clarification of whether they take Visa Debit cards, and I've also found their AB-205/UH-1D kit in 1/48 number 2621 and asked them to send me the instructions the same as they did for the 1/72 kit they sent me instructions for.  Hopefully they can and I can get somewhere with them.

I'm glad I'm buying the XM-23 weapons kit x2 from Cobra Company in a few weeks, otherwise I'd be going round in circles trying to get the door gun mount parts from Italeri as well.

I wish I was fluent in Italian, things might be a little easier, and I've thought about using Google Translate but I don't trust the accuracy and don't want to come across as moron trying to type a language I am not fluent in.

On the bright side, as previously mentioned (somewhere around here) I contacted Revell of America regarding spare cabin roof windows for their 1/48 Huey Hog kit that I have...

...and they're sending out the parts free of charge.  Don't quite know what they're sending yet as the notification email doesn't state exactly what the parts are, hopefully they'll send the entire windows sprue, but they're sending something.

Now that's what I call customer service. 

I've also placed a request for the same parts, but from their 1/48 UH-1D SAR Heeresflieger #04452 kit as they look as though they might fit the ESCI UH-1D, but I suspect that's a Revell of Germany kit, and it's been taken up by Italeri but is oop as Scalemates indicates as much...

I don't really need the parts as the one's I have are adequately painted in my opinion but it can never hurt to have spares, especially given my record so far with the kit...