Rivets

[Skrapwelder]

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.

[Major_Gilbear]

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?

[Skrapwelder]

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.

[Cubs]

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.