Mark2000
Active Member
Hi all. Looking for fresh takes on something I've been working on the last week. I'm going to be building a 1/350 TOS Enterprise as well as Nice-N's 1/350 D7 soon. I'm creating in individual rooms for transparency film that will be seen through the windows. I'm looking for a way to create a glass clear insert for those windows that will be flush, edge to edge. So far my experiments have been limited to epoxy resin. I've been trying to find a material that with hold the resin in the window and peal away once it's dry leaving a smooth surface with no luck. The tape's adhesive leaves a matte finish. Anything else, like a smooth piece of plastic taped over the window, sticks. I've tried 3-in-1 oil and Vaseline on the plastic, but the resin still sticks. I've tried micro kristal klear in the past, but it doesn't seem like it's possible to make it dry flat. It's always concave leading to lensing. I've considered cut clear styrene or even glass, but that would be hard to cut just right for every window and would have problems like lit edges, visible glue holding it in, and wouldn't work for round holes at all. If this works out I'm hoping to share the room backings with others building the kit.