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Originally Posted by Radio Control Trucker
Welcome to the forum, Darwin. There are a lot of great people here to make friends with and a wealth of knowledge on the site. 
I like what you did with the whole unit. That is a Master Build. 
If you have any tips about how to make the curb window, I'd appreciate it. 
I've wanted to install one in to a couple of my trucks, but I'm at a loss as to how to make it come out that nice. 
The trailer suspension is also very nice. If you have more photo's, please post them. 
- RCT |
Thanks for the nice comments and that also goes for everyone else! I appreciate all of them. If it wasn't for these type of forums I would never have gotten involved with this hobby if there weren't like minded people. I love reading all the posts and looking at all the awesome pictures and builds. Gives me inspiration!
As far as the curb window goes, I think for the window itself I used a piece from an r/c aircraft window, but any thin piece of clear or tinted window from a toy truck or even the old Lego house windows, they were clear or tinted I think, just pop out the lense and that would work for the glass.
The rubber molding is a thin rubber o-ring , the grommet kind that has the groove in it, that I cut to the right length and glued in around window opening in the door. I just used a tiny amount of glue in the groove so none of it squished out on to the outside of the door. Once the glue dried I think I took a razor blade and shaved the part of the o-ring off that protruded to the inside of the door giving me a mostly flat area on the inside. Then I cut a piece of plastic glass a little larger than the opening so no glue would squish into view and glued it flat against door and o-ring.
That was 6 years ago but I believe that is how I did it. I had spent many many hours already lengthening hood, cutting the front fenders off and reshaping them, filling in the hood etc. and THEN I think "oh lets put in a curb window". Luckily it went fine, but I would definitely cut the hole first before spending lots of time elsewhere in case it goes wrong and you ruin or crack the cab when cutting hole. I was very nervous cutting a hole in the door after I had spent so much time on the body work as I worried something bad would happen and I would crack the whole cab or ruin something.
Thanks again for the compliments!
Darwin