M3A1 HALFTRACK - 1/16 - from Andy's Hobby HR

[Ron2]

I thought it was in this thread that someone gave instructions guidance on the clean part of the windshield made by the wipers. I just looked through it and did not see it.

Do you remember where that was given?

I stated on another thread that I cut tape out in the pattern of the wiper arms placed that on the windshield and then applied grime to the rest.

 

[Rockin' Rob]

Yep. That's what I would do. Although hindsight is 20/20. But looking back it's still a bit fuzzy. (Dave Mustaine). Next time maybe before you glue the windshield on if it's possible to trace the window out on a piece of paper or something and then you can make tape to fit.

 

[Edbert]

Ron/Rob, I appreciate the help but my dumb ass (apologies, we're all adults right) needs more step by step.

I can hold the wiper in the low spot, and the high spot, make a mark with a fine-tip pencil. But how do you get a smooth curve? I hear my 2nd grade teacher yelling "that is why you had to buy a protractor every bleeping year", but is that really the answer?

 

[Rockin' Rob]

Ron/Rob, I appreciate the help but my dumb ass (apologies, we're all adults right) needs more step by step.

That's what I'm saying. Get a piece of paper and draw the windshield on a piece of paper. Now you don't have to dink around trying to mess around with a windshield that's already installed on the truck. Cuz all you really need is a piece of tape in the shape of the clean glass the windshield wiper would make. Now measure the windshield wiper and make a stick that long put your pencil on the end of the stick and use it as a compass. So now you draw it out on a piece of paper and you scissors to cut it out and transfer it to a big piece of tape and cut that out and then stick that piece of tape onto the truck windshield

 

[Ron2]

Ron/Rob, I appreciate the help but my dumb ass (apologies, we're all adults right) needs more step by step.

I can hold the wiper in the low spot, and the high spot, make a mark with a fine-tip pencil. But how do you get a smooth curve? I hear my 2nd grade teacher yelling "that is why you had to buy a protractor every bleeping year", but is that really the answer?

Haha I used a protractor! You cut try cutting a piece of thread or something to use as a guide.

 

[GCB]

I thought it was in this thread that someone gave instructions guidance on the clean part of the windshield made by the wipers. I just looked through it and did not see it.

Do you remember where that was given?

What I do: cut the approximate shape using a piece of paper and adjust as required, cut some masking tape using a compass cutter, stick to the windshield and then spray diluted paint or wash, ...

 

[Jakko]

I can hold the wiper in the low spot, and the high spot, make a mark with a fine-tip pencil. But how do you get a smooth curve?

You don't need to use the kit part to make marks — measure it instead. All you need to do is measure from the pivot point to the lower and upper tips of the wiper blade, and then draw two concentric circles with those radii.

If the wiper blade is in line with the shaft it's on, then just draw two lines from the centre to the outer circle — where you put the first one doesn't matter, while the second goes at the distance from the first that corresponds to how far the blade can move over the windscreen.

OTOH, if the blade is at an angle to the shaft, you're probably best off taking the kit part and putting its pivot point on the centre of the circles. This should put the blade against both inner and outer circles, and will let you mark where the blade is, for both ends of the area it can wipe.

You can do all of this with compasses, a ruler and a pencil, straight onto a large enough piece of tape that you stuck to a pane of glass or something. Then cut along the lines with a sharp knife.

 

[BarleyBop]

I thought it was in this thread that someone gave instructions guidance on the clean part of the windshield made by the wipers. I just looked through it and did not see it.

Do you remember where that was given?

Maybe here?