73 J-3 Cub
Windshield Trim
I got an interesting e-mail from Richard Adams last evening about trimming the windows on the Cub. He said to cut out single long thin yellow tissue strips and brush them onto the edges of the styrene windows and windshield with a glue mixture of 50% Titebond and 50% water.
To test this approach out, I cut some long thin
yellow tissue strips and proceeded to brush the strips on a scrap of clear
flat styrene. The first couple of attempts it didn't work because the tissue
kept sliding around and tearing when it got wet. I finally overcame this
problem and successfully got two strips glued on smooth. After letting the
mixture dry, I use a damp rag to lightly clean off the excess glue mixture
on the styrene. Well, this didn't work either because the yellow tissue
strips came right off! The glue mixture just does not stick to the styrene.
After giving up on this approach, I decide to
look into some yellow striping tape. All I had on hand was some Great Planes
1/8" width, which would not pull around a curve without puckering on the
inside radius. So I took a fresh piece of this striping tape and carefully
sliced it down the middle to get two 1/16" strips. I took one of these 1/16"
strips and very successfully stretched it around the windshield/cowl
juncture. This yellow strip tape completely sealed off the windshield around
the cowl as the picture below shows.
This shows a right side view of the striping tape
termination.
At this point, I am almost ready to quit while I
am ahead with this window/windshield trim thing and proceed
with installing the wing panels. However, the one thing I will not have
accomplished, is learning how to properly trim windows/windshields on FAC
models. What do you guys think?........................Tandy