"Painting Windows on up-armored soft skin vehicles" Topic

How do folks paint windows on vehicles such as HMMWVs or MTVR? I was thinking black and then adding a high gloss coating. I'd appreciate any advice.

Gloss black.

I used to do black, now I do them all dark blue with some white highlights.

Dark blue for me

Black undercoat, dark blue main colour followed by a few streaks of a dark metal colour.

Dark blue, gradually fading to much, much, much lighter blue in one corner, the same corner on each pane.

Then, multiple coats of clear gloss lacquer brushed on after all clear protective spraying of the vehicle.

Tom

I usually do pretty much as-above, but I can't forget my High School Technical Drawing class, where we did colored pencil renderings of car glamor shots. The way they really look is a dark horizon-line with reflected sky above and a darker reflection below. It's a challenging paint job, but I've seen it done very impressively.

I just found an example of what I'm talking about: link

Gloss Black and a little Medium Gray highlights/streaks …

Vallejo Luftwaffe Uniform with a thin wash of silver.