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Post by desertrat on Jun 20, 2016 15:32:50 GMT -5
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Post by desertrat on Jun 20, 2016 15:34:51 GMT -5
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Post by Leon on Jun 20, 2016 18:22:59 GMT -5
Off to a good start DR!  |
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Post by wbill76 on Jun 20, 2016 20:54:22 GMT -5
Looking good! Pulling up a chair.
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Post by vindicareassassin on Jun 21, 2016 6:46:27 GMT -5
Awesome start mate!!
Gota love a bit of scratch work!
Sean
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Post by dierk on Jun 21, 2016 7:51:52 GMT -5
Nice bit of scratching! Good start.  |
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Post by desertrat on Jun 21, 2016 13:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by Leon on Jun 21, 2016 15:50:42 GMT -5
Interior is looking really good! |
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Post by Deano on Jun 21, 2016 15:53:37 GMT -5
Ooooooo mate ! stunning work and inspiration !
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Post by vindicareassassin on Jun 21, 2016 17:02:33 GMT -5
Absolutely spankey mate!!!
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Post by wbill76 on Jun 21, 2016 17:18:35 GMT -5
Very impressive work, nice!
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Post by tobias5555 on Jun 22, 2016 1:32:43 GMT -5
Very cool scratchwork
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Post by dierk on Jun 22, 2016 2:38:33 GMT -5
Scratchilicious! |
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Post by desertrat on Jun 22, 2016 13:45:02 GMT -5
we have paint,  |
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Post by Deano on Jun 22, 2016 14:23:58 GMT -5
Buddy can you please show me how you did the rivets? , it looks very different from other ways I have seen .
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Post by desertrat on Jun 22, 2016 15:38:22 GMT -5
Buddy can you please show me how you did the rivets? , it looks very different from other ways I have seen . i'll try and take pics, might need jools to hold the camera, ok, |
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Post by Deano on Jun 22, 2016 16:19:00 GMT -5
Buddy can you please show me how you did the rivets? , it looks very different from other ways I have seen . i'll try and take pics, might need jools to hold the camera, ok, Thanks mate appreciate it ! |
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Post by deafpanzer on Jun 22, 2016 23:24:16 GMT -5
I am back! Catching up! Always wanted to build this one because of one certain camp pattern that always catch my attention.
Fantastic work so far!
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Post by desertrat on Jun 23, 2016 12:29:45 GMT -5
fist drill your holes,  then your rivets,   then trim, you don't have to use nail clippers,  then heat..   |
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Post by desertrat on Jun 23, 2016 12:34:36 GMT -5
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Post by desertrat on Jun 23, 2016 12:38:22 GMT -5
 hope this helps,  |
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Post by desertrat on Jun 23, 2016 12:44:12 GMT -5
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Post by Deano on Jun 23, 2016 13:22:19 GMT -5
Thanks buddy loving the camo ! .... gonna have to try this method !
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Post by wbill76 on Jun 23, 2016 21:40:06 GMT -5
Nice work on the camo pattern!
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Post by vindicareassassin on Jun 24, 2016 2:30:29 GMT -5
Thats the way I have to do it as sticking individual heads on in braille scale is nye on impossible.
Looks real sweet under paint mate!!
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Post by Leon on Jun 24, 2016 5:55:28 GMT -5
Nice work on the camo and great SBS on the rivets.
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Post by moramarth on Jun 24, 2016 19:19:49 GMT -5
Just a brief note (I'm a bit pushed for time just now) but I've done something similar in the past to manufacture rivets before you actually need them - I did it years ago (or rather, over-did it) and still have some left somewhere...
Basically, you just need to present the end of a length of plastic rod to a radiant heat source (e.g. bar-type electric fire, the ring on the top of an electric cooker, the side of a soldering iron - I've used all of these) until it starts to melt and roll back on itself to form a mushroom-headed rivet. Cut it off leaving a short length of rod to insert into your pre-drilled hole, and repeat ad infinitum, or at least until your fingertips get too hot. As I recall I used to hold the rod as close to the hot end as I could stand and twirl it between my fingers as that seemed to help the blobby end form more symmetrically. It might be more finger-friendly to hold the rod in a pin vise; You may wish to pop individual rivets into one of these and file the head down if you want them flattened rather than domed. The biggest bit of rod I used was a bit of fairly thick round sprue, but it wasn't for a rivet, it was to make a drum for a musician conversion when the Games Workshop Skeleton Army box came out (back in the early '80's?), I think I made his drumsticks the same way as rivets but with longer stems and more rounded ends.
Regards,
M
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Post by Tojo72 on Jun 24, 2016 20:27:36 GMT -5
That looks really good so far.
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Post by desertrat on Jun 27, 2016 13:47:36 GMT -5
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Post by desertrat on Jun 27, 2016 13:49:12 GMT -5
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