1:35 Printed Accessories: Factory glass windows No.10

Factory window fillings No.10 in 1:35 scale from RT-Diorama

This item is a printed diorama accessory, not a kit and not a model of a vehicle. It comes from the RT-Diorama range devoted to the equipment of a scene and falls into its group of window subjects for industrial architecture - halls, workshops, warehouses and working buildings. The 1:35 scale given in the name is the proportion usual for military figures and vehicles, so the accessory matches them in size and nothing has to be converted.

What the accessory is for

On an industrial structure the windows make up a substantial part of a wall, so it is they that decide how a building reads in a scene. An open opening lets light through and gives away to the viewer that there is nothing inside; a piece of the structure thereby collapses into a set piece. A window subject closes the opening and at the same time keeps the regular grid that is otherwise very laborious to maintain on a long facade. Besides that it helps the readability of scale - a window of known size gives the viewer a guide to how large the vehicle standing beside it is.

Tips for placing it in the scene

It pays to start from the whole: first lay out the mass of the building and the spacing of the windows, and only then deal with the detail. The grid should have the same step on all the walls and carry on around the corners, or the structure will look disorderly. Watch the height of the sill against the figures and think about where the viewer will be looking from. A group of buildings holds together best when you use the same type of window fillings throughout the complex.

Who the set is for

• modelers who build industrial scenes in 1:35
• builders of complexes made up of several buildings
• anyone interested in city and factory fighting
• those who want to close empty window openings