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sheet styrene?...Rivets?

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sheet styrene?...Rivets?
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 6, 2006 1:53 AM
Does evergreen or anyone else make a sheet plastic with rivet detail?
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Posted by berny13 on Monday, March 6, 2006 9:45 AM
I have never seen it.  It would be rather hard to do considering the different scales and type of rivets.  They would have to make sheets to be used with different scales plus some with flush rivets, others with raised rivets.  There wouldn't be much of a market for them.

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Posted by MontanaCowboy on Monday, March 6, 2006 1:41 PM

It would cost way too much, as Berny said.

Use a special tool like the nutter to make the rivet detail.

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Posted by wayne baker on Monday, March 6, 2006 2:47 PM
I have heard of people using a ponce wheel to make impressions in plastic.  don't know what the scale effect is.  They sell them at Micro Mark, if you want to check them out.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 6, 2006 6:17 PM
 MontanaCowboy wrote:


Use a special tool like the nutter to make the rivet detail.



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Posted by gringe88 on Monday, March 6, 2006 6:26 PM
grandt line makes rivets for RR models in various sizes and types.  I've got some at competitions, but you could probably get them online too at a hobby site.
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Posted by HeavyArty on Monday, March 6, 2006 11:14 PM
Grandt Line makes all different sizes of plastic nuts, bolts, screws, etc.  They are marketed for model railroaders, but work great for armor, helos. etc.  Amother option is to get Hex-rod from Plastruct.  It comes in about 4 different sizes.  Simply slice a thin piece off the end for a hex-head bolt.  Works great and is cheap.  Lasts forever too.

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