If I ever have to paint in windscreens or glass areas because these areas have been moulded solid, I tend to use a somewhat stylised method. To start with, I use a black undercoat. Then I mix up on my palette a mid blue with a tiny amount of silver, or a silver/black [or gunmetal] mix, justenough to make the blue sort of shiney & metallic looking. I paint this on to the glass area, leaving a thinnish black edge. Next, using silver I lightly brush over the window surface (almost in a drybrush manner), starting in the centre & working out, but leaving a blue edge. The silver looks better if it is applied in an irregular way as oppose to a solid block. I now tend to apply it in a series of diagonal "stripes", angled from say top right corner to bottom left, avoiding a neat symmetrical pattern & often merging & blurring the stripes. This is harder to describe than actually do! [{\\\\}] [ = black, { = blue/silver, \ = silver (but not as regular as this!) There are black & blue/silver areas at top & bottom also. This is for 15mm models, but I think would work equally well for 1/300th, as it looks quite good on small 15mm cars etc. I have seen photos of other people's models who use a similar technique but substitute grey for blue. Back to Frontline Vol. 1 Iss. 3 Table of Contents Back to Frontline List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Rolfe Hedges This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com