How do you make broken glass

You can use clear sheet styrene from Plastruct or Evergreen.
Or
I've experimented with small glass christmas lights, break them and use the pieces. Careful its real glass and it's a smidge on the thick side so if you will see a lot of the edge you should got with styrene.

You could buy Microscope cover slips from a Lab supply company. By far the best solution. Very thin, in neat squares. A lot in abox.

Vinnie

it can be a little work, but I use 3M Overhead Foils for my glass, I use it for broken windows in buildings and on the ground, you can get nice jagged edges simply by taking your hobby knife and cut all sorts of shapes.

I'd go with Vinnie's suggestion on the glass slides if you can get access to them. They are thin enough and they are glass. Short of buying them from lab suppliers you're next best bet to get some would be from friends in microbial labs at universities or hospitals.
Another alternative though not as good would be to use overhead transparencies sold at most stationery shops. Its the stuff used for presentations although I guess now everyone uses powerpoint.

If you go with Vinnie's suggestion here is a link and they are pretty inexpensive
Glass slides

redleg

Dear Matt
PM me your adress i will send you microscope cover slips.
I got tons of it and i use them even for the glass of my vehicles.

Cheers
Seb

what about ermm.....real glass? :-) buy a thin glass and hammer it into tiny bits (++)

Far too thick Christian. Even the thinnest glass you could buy commercially. :-)

Vinnie

Okay I am going to point out that a 1/8th inch thick sheet of glass would only be .003" (or .09 mm) in 1/35th scale. Those microscope slides are 1 mm or .033" inches thick. Thats 10 times thicker than they should be. That would equate to glass 1.37" thick!!! I think Kelly' idea of overhead plastic sheets sounds a little better and you can control the "breaking" of the pane better. Not that I have ever done glass in this scale, though, so it is a humble opinion.

I have used the overhead transparancy sheets (called acetate here) and they are great. You can also score them with the point of a knife to simulate cracks.

But what I'd really like to know is what can be used as broken glass that would be scattered across streets and rubble. If you've seen the aftermath of urban combat, it's everywhere. I've tried finely ground sugar, but it looked too white and powdery. Same with rock salt. Anyone tried real ground glass?

Rob.........sorry mate, but you're mistaken. We mean Microscope Cover slips. These are actually 0.3 mm thick, which actually scales out to 10mm, still a little thick, but the thinnest you're going to get. Microscope slides themselves are far too thick! Cover slips are the small squares of very fine glass used to flatten specimens on the slide. :-)

Actually the ones on Ebay measure 0.13mm - 0.16mm Thick, which is even thinner than .3 mm, and are probably the better way..... even recommended way back in the land of real teeth, and natural hair days of Shep Paine.......
The only downsize is the small size of 22mm square, but perfect for broken sections of larger windows.

They do break easy, and with practice you can basically break them when or how you want, to a certain degree, using two small pliers. Just be careful, since they are real glass, and will cause real cuts with real blood.

.....Which in turn...means real bandaids and real pain!

use a 'dead' light bulb and smash it with a hammer and lay it on a thin layer of PVA

i know its crazy but it might work :-) and light bulb's glass break easily




for fun.... why not put a intact 'thin' glass on your windows etc, and shoot it with a BB gun? it will recreate real shatters like when a tank shell passed through the windows?? :-)