I had another thread asking for advice on how to create window screening. I decided to start a new thread since that one was cluttered and this one shows what I did.
I used a medium gray material from JoAnn Fabric's called CREPON SHEER. I bought different shades and picked the one that gave a good color rendering and "semi" see-thru effect, comparing all the time to my son's actual windows. I used a tip supplied in that other thread and sprayed it with clear coat finish to stiffen it up some (thanks for that tip "shoal creek railroad", it did make a difference!!!)
Trying to build the windows was as much a problem as finding a material to use for the screening. The screens on the actual house are flush with the outside of the siding, not indented at all. I wanted/needed to do that on the model and that took many, many experiments to come up with a reliable way. One of the biggest obstacles is that the screens don't have a frame to speak of. If I modeled the frame to scale, I would have needed something in the 1/132" thick range! A bit too thin to be helpful.
Also, the windows, obviously, are behind the screening and indented so I wanted to create that too. I pushed the 'screen' from behind using properly sized 'L' bracket styrene stripping so that the screen was flush with the front of the clapboard siding. I glued the brackets in place from behind and capillary action carried some of it to where the 'L' touched the side of the opening (had to be careful not to use a lot so that it didn't sift down and show on the screen). The 'L' holds the screening in place.
Here are some pictures.
This shows how I had to trim the material so that when I pushed it into the opening from behind it didn't bulge up in the corners:
This shows the screening held in place after glueing the 'L' brackets to the back and , somewhat, to the sides too of the opening:
From the front (I don't what that shadow is near the top that looks like a window frame. There's nothing there. Must have been because I was holding the piece at an angle to the surface and got some sort of reflection or shadow effect):
After glueing the glazing/window on the back:
Remaining to do is to build the outer frame and mid-vertical frame from the front as shown in this actual picture. Add shutters anytime:
This shows clearly the frame:
