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11-21-2008, 04:11 PM
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| One of Gods own prototypes.   Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oak Ridge, North Carolina Age: 38
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Raised rivits can be made with tiny drops of glue (usually plain white glue works best). This is done before the last coat of primer is applied. Although you can apply after primer as well. Flush rivits are made by cutting little circles in the primer with a small piece of brass tubing. This is done after primer and before paint. Good luck with it. What are you building?
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11-21-2008, 07:31 PM
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| If you can't HUCK it BLING IT!  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Whidbey Island, WA Age: 34
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The first method typically uses a template of evenly spaced holes on some type of plastic material so the dots are uniform. The 2nd method uses brass tubing which you can press into the surface or attach it to a soder gun that is heat adjustable so you can burn the rivets in. I did the 2nd method on my P-47.........it does take time but looks really good. DSC00554.JPG There are also several other methods out there, find what you like.
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12-01-2008, 04:30 AM
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| Radials Rock   Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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Thanks for the posts guys, was looking to do this as well! Always good to see what others do. Cheers
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10-24-2009, 05:12 PM
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| Uber Contributer  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Cowra NSW Australia
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For added detail like Sweetpea's effect, you could push a pin (with the point filed off) into some balsa and push the balsa into the brass tube so the pin is flush and centered. This will give you that center dimple as often seen. As far as raised rivets, I've found that tubes or bottles of fabric paint work well as it it controllable, doesn't drip and you can get it in silver, so if a bit of paint flakes off, you have a silver rivet visible. This stuff doesn't flatten out as glue can sometimes do and can be made very small or large as your needs require. It also dries within an hour or so. 
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10-24-2009, 07:28 PM
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| If you can't HUCK it BLING IT! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Whidbey Island, WA Age: 34
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Thanks. The detail on my plane is very good for my first try at scale appearance.
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