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I am lucky to have two boxed Plasticville Cathedrals. While the structure is too small to be a real cathedral, it's big enough to be a small church in a crowded urban setting, where the city grew up around it like one would see in downtown areas.

My question is whether the window inserts available from reproduction dealers. I do not remember seeing the item previously (frankly, I've never looked for it before) nor can I find info online.

I guess it is something to look for at York.

I want to paint the structure a light gray and the roof flat black before weathering......but I will have to sacrifice the inserts to be able to paint the walls. Previously, I have used colorful, patterned birthday or Christmas wrapping paper in the smaller Plasticville church.

Alternatively, I can scrap it off as best I can and glue it back in pieces, knowing that it probably won't be seen well anyway when surrounded by taller buildings.

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As you can see, lots of pieces that I can try to salvage. Many are very worn and at the disintegration phase (unlike the complete piece I have above).

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As an aside, the bell assembly is pretty neat.....I never really appreciated it before.

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Thank you in advance for any help.

Have a great weekend for celebrating Easter or Passover.

Peter

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@Edward G posted:

Maybe I’m not understanding the question but can’t you just download an image of Stain glass off the Internet and print it on card stock or photo paper?

Or print the stained glass image to clear film.

Which is what I did for my cathedral...

Full FrontLit inside (Sorry for the poor focus!)

Search on Stained Glass Church Windows...lots of choices.  Don't worry about the exact fit...the images are too small to be nit-picked...IMHO, of course.

FWIW...

KD  (a.k.a. Lucas Gudinov)

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Peter,

If you look back at my project thread on the church, you will see that I printed out stained glass on clear Mylar sheet rather than paper. I felt that I had good results.

Thank you, Alan!

Oh my, in the early half of my career I used to print out the lectures I was giving to residents on transparencies to use with an overhead protector……I’m sure I still have some.

Peter

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Peter, I did the same as Alan on my Church, stained glass image printed on the clear transparency on a color printer. It worked very well.

The one consideration is that you will need more lighting to show through the colored glass than you do with clear or opaque window covering (ie the buildings will look dark even when you light it) You will probably need about double the lighting you normally put in a structure to get similar light out the windows and to be able to see the impact of the stained glass.

I've downloaded stained glass images; you can print them to transparent film like clear label stock.  This will give you a softer image that's closer to what you'd see from outside.

You can take 2 cathedrals and make a two towered church.  You'd need to trim the piece at the top of the roof to fit.

Churches usually didn't have black roofs.  They'd be copper (a brighter olive green), slate (dark gray) or reddish.

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