Posted by Roger Dawson
on March 1, 2009, 6:21 pm, in reply to "Ships Windows"
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I'm not convinced that there is a single best way. It depends on the materials that you are working with, whether you are making a single model or making a production run and the price or the time that you are willing to set aside. Triang Minic ignored them, Hansa cast them in relief, Carat glazed them, Lloyd used paper strips, Revell seem to have used tampo printing, Navis Neptun & Len Jordan drilled small holes and Degen drilled larger holes. The way in which a maufacturer has chosen to represent windows & portholes is often like the signature on a work of art. In the case of portholes, it is in most cases convention that rules because grey ships in action would have covered them and they would not be visible on other dark coloured hulls on the real thing at 1km (equivalent to normal viewing distance of a model on a table). On light coloured hulls, I would use a black Edding 0.1mm precision drawing pen over a matt paint finish (NB Pilot pens are not as light fast as Edding pens) and on kits with rectangular moulded windows I paint the windows in a dark grey gloss paint and then cut the over-painted window back to sharp corners with a coat of body paint using the edge of a table to steady my hand.
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