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Title: Rivets
Post by: Skrapwelder on July 21, 2014, 05:12:39 AM

Don't know if anyone else has tried this but it was new to me.

I drilled some holes in a piece of plastic card about 1.5 mm. Using the flat side of a chisel I pushed some magic sculpt through the hole just enough to make a bump. Once it dries I'll sand the back side smooth. It goes very quickly.

(http://rotanddrivel.com/WIP/rivet_1.jpg)

(http://rotanddrivel.com/WIP/rivet_2.jpg)

Title: Re: Rivets
Post by: Major_Gilbear on July 21, 2014, 08:16:16 AM

So... Like a putty version of of a spray template?

Not done that before, I'll admit. Did fashion a rivet punch for putty rivets that was a little like a spud gun from a piece of tube and a rod when I was younger though; decided in the end that slicing up a hard styrene rod was easier however.

Do you not find that the putty rivets stick to the cut edges of your template?

Title: Re: Rivets
Post by: Skrapwelder on July 21, 2014, 12:36:00 PM

Wasn't thinking about the plastic as a template. I figured I would be doing this right on whatever pieces I was using for construction.

Title: Re: Rivets
Post by: Cubs on July 21, 2014, 01:00:48 PM

I once tried to do something kind of similar, drilling small indentations (not all the way through) and sitting the tiny beads from silica gel bags into it with a blob of glue. It ended up being so damn fiddly I only did a small strip of them.