Landships II

Firefly · Sergeant

Rivets

Lafettenheini · Colonel

hi Marcus ,

Which scale do you use ? If 1:16 for example there are original rivets in steel ,and every
other sort of metal. Cheap to get from the industrial grocery and not from this modell
neck cut offs !

Best regards

Gerd

Firefly · Sergeant

Hi Gerd,

Braille scale I'm afraid,I don't have the space for larger scales.

I wasn't looking forward to using the guts of a water filter cartridge;so if it's good enough for Domi,I guess it will do for me!

TTFN,
Marcus

Peter Kempf · Field Marshal

Getting a solution to this age-old problem (for Braille-Scalers that is) would entitle Domi J. a place in the Braille Scale Hall of Fame!

Hope someone can give more details!

fabe · Corporal

BTW another good solution are the rivets of Archer Fine Transfers. They consist of black, three dimensional resin rivets on decal film. The ease of appliance is incredible, they are a little pricey however (I'm in no way connected with the producer)

-- Edited by fabe at 17:50, 2008-02-10

Roger Todd · Legend

A technique I've used in braille scale is as follows...

Mark up on your styrene sheet or part where you want your rivets. Drill a hole for each rivet using the thinnest drill you can find.

Take thin styrene rod (I think it's 0.25mm and reddish brown). Light a tea candle, and approach the flame with the tip of the rod. It will melt and 'blob'. As soon as it does this, withdraw from the flame - you want the smallest blob, and the longer it stays in, the more rod melts and the bigger the blob.

You now have a sort of 'mushroom' head to the rod. Cut it off with a couple of millimetres of 'tail'.

Insert into pre-drilled�hole, and apply liquid cement to the other side of your styrene sheet or part; capillary action will draw the cement in and fasten the rivet.

Practise achieves fairly consistently sized rivets.

Below is the result on an Airfix Mk I I 'accurised' (God, what an ugly word...):

A variation would be to buy Grandt Line styrene rivets; the smallest (for HO trains) are 0.5mm in diameter and they come in packs of 200 for $2.13:

http://www.internettrains.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=IT&Product_Code=TTG-8017&Category_Code=SBSNBWTTG&Featured=

I've not tried them yet, but I plan to order a few packs.

Firefly · Sergeant

Wow!

Thanks for that chaps.

What a can of worms has been opened!I've got a craft shop just by me,so I'm planning to get some of this paint tomorrow & I'll let you know how it goes.

TTFN,

Marcus

rjbartrop · Sergeant

I've been getting pretty decent results using epoxy and a toothpick.

compound eye · Colonel

fabe wrote:

BTW another good solution are the rivets of Archer Fine Transfers. They consist of black, three dimensional resin rivets on decal film. The ease of appliance is incredible, they are a little pricey however (I'm in no way connected with the producer)

-- Edited by fabe at 17:50, 2008-02-10

A dream come true - especially when I'm going to have to rivet a pair of Mk1 male sponsons at some point in the near future.

Do you have the web address of any UK dealer that sells them?

Paul Bonnett · Hero

Historex agents sell them I think
Paul