How to Make Rivets

On one aluminum plate of 1mm of thickness we make some groups of holes of the various dimensions that we need for the rivets we need. We should obtain a plate like this one you could see on the photo.



Now we could heat up a piece of sprue (tha chassis that takes togheter all the parts of the model to be build) amd move quickly near tho group of hole of the dimension needed



Here push until the fused plastic comes out the other part of the holes .



We should have obtained the rivets as shown on the photo. At this time we need only to cut away the rivets paying attention to not cut ourselves .



You could put a little drop of liquid glue ont point you want the rivet to stay. With the wet brush you could take the rivet and position it at the right place .



With a lot of calm and attention you could fill up you model of rivets but pay attention to not overdo .
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On some Japanese newspapers like gundam WEAPONS and Hobby Japan I found an other way to make rivets, that is making some holes of the dimension of the spheres we have and we put them in leveled to the plate .



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