I am looking for a single roof light for a police car. I had scratchbuilt a light bar for a 1970's Ontario Provincial Police cruiser but can't find anything to use for the small centre "bubble gum" light.
I went to POLICECARMODELS.COM but theirs are 1/2" diameter. I need something 1/4" diameter. Has anybody seen anything out there???

Darren, the old rotary lights were on the big side so they'd get noticed...usually had twin bulbs. A 1/2" assembly scales out to a 12" wide light...I'd figure them in for roughly 10". The best I could do for you would be one of the amt semi truck red lights from the red lense sprue....it's squared off and is 1/4" by a 1/4".
I made a light bar once by using a transparent red tooth brush {really} , I cut it to rough size and then wet sanded it down to where I wanted it then polished it till it was shiney...turned out pretty nice. You could make a round top rotary the same way and I think I paid only $2 for the tooth brush from walgreens.

For that size.............a piece of clear sprue from a windshield or canopy would work........sanded down, and painted with clear Tamiya red or blue with a silver base.


Hermon

Thanks for the input guys. I'll have to NOT throw out the clear sprues next time!

Since you need something that is about half the size of the larger light, would a 1/43 scale light work? Just a though.......