B-25 Mitchell

[Mothman]

Barry, I find Perspex (Lucite, Plexiglas) is one of those things that I just have kicking around. I still have bits that I knicked from my apprenticeship with John B. Thorp's in London. They used it almost exclusively for architectural models. Then I worked for Mike Karslake Scale Models and he always used it for cases, so I got my "fix" there, too.
I usually find off cuts of any materials in specialist shops and workers of whatever it is. I must say though, that it is five times more expensive than glass, if bought straight from a shop.

The beauty of scratchbuilding is that it costs almost nothing.  Despite what the fools on scalemotorcars forum are claiming.  Just because they were dumb enough to pay thousands for a poor quality Pocher kit, they feel they must project the cost to those of us who can do much the same for a few quid.  My old bank manager could never understand how there were virtually no costs to what I did for a living, so I took him a drawing pad, a clicky pencil, a fuel bill and a chunk of brass offcut from the local engraver.  "There," said I, "value that lot". A 10lb. propane cylinder would last me over a year for £13.  In those days £20 of fuel would get me almost anywhere to measure a subject and I'd charge that to the customer anyway..  If I'd had me wits about me, I'd have done posh versions of the drawings and sold them to the Public, too.  Or "done a Winnie" and written books and flogged them for years.

Cheers,
Martin