Hello everybody!

How can I do to reproduce rivets, nuts and bolts in 1/35 scale?

It's the hardest part for me....

Bye and thanks in advance,

Marcelo

Ciao Urutu,
You can buy them, or......

Option one: This way is best for just a few nuts and bolts. Use stretched sprue. You make it to what ever size you wish, then drag it over very fine sand paper till it has flat sides (sort of) and then cut them to fit. The good thing is that you can get many different sizes out of one stretched sprue. The bad thing is that getting them exactly the same size is difficult.

Option two: Take a block of wood and punch a hole into the wood to simulate the nut and or bolt. You can fashion a nail to the correct size, and then punch it into the wood. Then take sprue, heat it up, and stick the blob of sprue into the hole. Then you will have a nut/bolt of the same size.

Hope it helps
Ciao for now
Rob

I use a hole punch set. It has different size punches that I use in different size plastic stock. I make everything from bolt heads to small lights and side deflector markers.

You could also try using plastic hex rod from Plastruct or Evergreen and cut this in thin slivers for bolt heads.
Kyle

Thank you guys!

I'll try the tips! They realy help me a lot .

Bye,

Marcelo