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to sand or not to sand (rivet detail)

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to sand or not to sand (rivet detail)
Posted by Putsie on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 9:04 AM

HI folks!

Many of us have a stash of older kits.......Airfix comes to mind in my case.....just out of curiosity.......do you sand the oversized rivets or build as is???????  And if you sand....do you go flush and scribe panel lines or just reduce the rivit height??????

Thx

Have fun

 

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, July 12, 2016 12:56 PM

I am in the minority that like some of the older kits with raised rivet detail. Many aircraft had quite numerous pronounced raised rivets on their construction. Some even still do today. Where appropriate I leave them be. Now on 1/72 kits of course they are going to be way over scale, and I would sand those down to where they were present, but just "barely there".

 

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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 8:58 AM

Depends on size of rivets, and type.  Some rivets on kits are so big they look like rivets to assemble heavy steel boiler plates. If they are too big, I get rid of them

There are two types of rivets, conventional and flush.  Flush are used where streamlining is important and surface bumps would cause boundary layer seperation.  They were used mostly on wings and forward-most areas of fuselage.  These were almost invisible on painted surfaces, and were small, slight discolorations on bmf.

You need to do research to find which kind of rivets were where on each aircraft.  For rivets that may be too large, compare with photos of real plane.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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