Would someone tell me where one would buy stain glass in 1/35 scale as for customs dioramaics no longer produces this item. Any idea's and care to share of scatch building some stain windows for a church building?

I believe that Shep Paine once wrote in an article that he used clear overhead projector "view graph" paper (which is actually a clear plastic) and photo-copied some stained glass patterns from a child's coloring book.

He then colored the "glass" brush painting with clear / transparent paints (like car guys use for tail lights, etc). After he colored the windows, he cut 'em out complete with bomb damage.

Never done this myself, but as I recall, that was the nuts-and-bolts of the process he used. IIRC, the dio was for a 88mm Flak placed in a partially demolished church, and it was, of course, a masterpiece.

If it worked for him, I don't see why it wouldn't work for us mere mortal model builders!

I suppose you could trace the designs using a permanent marker (black Sharpie?) instead photocopying.

HTH,

Thank's Mike for the idea,and i'am off to work on this and this has got me think'in.

Hi,

You can get acetate sheets for ink jet printer and print the image you want from your PC using Word, PowerPoint or any other program you normally use; it's only to resize the image to the size you need.

Then if you prefer you can glue some strips of thin plastic over to give some depth to the armature.


HTH

Thank you Jose,you all'guys are swell thanks for the how too's.

A third option, tinting with Future.

http://www.swannysmodels.com/Tinting.html

Thanks Christopher,I must say I have the best of Bud's. Brock

I thnk Reality in Scale do 1/35th stained glass.

Unicorn Models (Belgium):

http://www.unicornmodels.be/shop/index.php?cPath=36_27

yes, unicorn does a nice job if you want stained windows.

they even have a special set for the miniart church.