Blue Glazing for Bachmann Tram

[tramcar trev]

Blue moon, I saw you standing alone, without a song in your heart....
I did it the hard way.....
The pink glazing just looks so, so well so camp, like something out of Prisicilla - Queen of the Desert....
I tried the printed blue Overhead film and it just would not sit right for me so I unclipped the pink, made a mold from it and cast my own blue glazing....
Traps for new players: the dye is expensive, the resin shrinks lengthwise and the resin is best poured into a warm mold as it will thin it and let any air bubbles escape. I tried polyester resin but went in the end with clear epoxy craft resin used for embedding spiders etc..... Its finished off by running a small propane torch over it to release any air..
I was going to make up a few sets in different colours, cut them up into single windows with a razor saw and glaze each window with a different colour, ie red, green and blue - the cost of the dye nipped that in the bud so I've just gone cobalt blue. hard to show in a pic but it looks good with the resprayed roof done a dirty dark sand colour....
The project is coming along nicely, if slowly.... I may be well into my second retirement before its completed

 

[MR SPOCK]

The stackable desk tidy trays used in offices are hard perspex and in a range of colors, they are easy sawed and glued, would that work?​

 

[pugwash]

The gel sheets Ross mentions are also used in disco lighting as coloured filters in front of clear lamps.

 

[tramcar trev]

The stackable desk tidy trays used in offices are hard perspex and in a range of colors, they are easy sawed and glued, would that work?​

They probably would Spock but if you ever need offcuts of different coloured perspex go to a perspex sign place and ask if you can rummage around in the offcuts....

These are made to fit from the mold.....

I'm thinking of selling all the mods to this tram on ebay go into production making destination boxes, detailed controllers, standard life gards etc etc.... market a conversion kit ......

 

[tramcar trev]

The gel sheets Ross mentions are also used in disco lighting as coloured filters in front of clear lamps.

Oh yes Pugwash those where the days....Disco.... there actually was a tram in Melbourne for hire "Disco Tram", don't know what colour the glazing was though....

 

[KeithT]

Craft shops stock coloured 'gels' usually with the leaded light materials.