Quanah, Acme and Pacific (QA&P) - West Texas - Fictitious Model Railroad Layout Agriculture Industry

Paul,
You might look at microscope slide covers. They are thin glass, about 0.13mm thickness. Being glass they won't "cloud up" when glue is applied. Available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/LAKWAR-Micro...prefix=glass+slide+covers,aps,142&sr=8-8&th=1

Dave

 

Thanks, David. I've used them before, but they're tons of work.

The current plan is to carefully measure the window opening and make a digital file of the window opening plus about four scale inches all around. I will print 40 individual windows on a clear sheet of acetate. The extra 4" will be printed on a laser printer. Then just cut out each window, paint the surrounding 4" green or brown, and glue it in place. It won't look perfect, but it will be better than it is now.

 

It's amazing how long it takes to paint individual window frames. But it's getting there.

The other attached image is the window glass template. It worked out pretty good. After carefully measuring and building rectangles in photoshop, I printed them on a sheet of clear acetate and am now cutting them out. Actually, I built one and duplicated it 35 times. Hopefully, they will give the appearance of real, individual windows on the inside. The edges and the black perimeter strip will be touched with dark green.

 

Yes, but I count 24 windows on those two sides that show. (Plus more on the sides that don't show.) That's a LOT of windows to hand paint!

 

Andre, you are absolutely correct. 24 done, 17 to go!!! But at least I'm past the halfway point. There are a few that need some touchup...

Tonight I cut out a couple of the window glass inserts. It looks like they may actually work fairly well. The printed edges give them the appearance of an interior frame around the glass.

 

With the wind WSW at 50 G 70, there's not much to do outside, so the building got a little attention today. The elevator now has poles and cable for a guardrail on the sides. This is pre OSHA, so there won't be any gate on the front.

Nearly all of the windows are installed. They need a tiny bit of touch on the green trim. That is something I hope to never do again...Talk about time consuming. Between painting all 41 exterior windows, cutting out each individual window for the interior, and doing the interior window frame, there's no telling how many hours it took.

The lower and upper floors now have a little bit of weathering, and will get a little more.

Now to figure out how to do the overhead pulley and cable system for the elevator...

 

Built and painted a floor safe for the corner office next to the stairway; added handrails around the stairwell opening; scratch built some work tables, installed the conduit for electrical power from the box on the wall to the winch for the elevator.

Does anyone know if electric meters on the exterior of a building looked like they do now back in the 1950's? I've got a soft metal casting of an electric meter that could go on the outside, but I can't find much online regarding 1940 / 1950 vintage electric meters.