Tuesday 28 December 2010

On Rivets, Nuts and Bolts - The tiny ones (Part 2)

OK, I will be adding to this post, from time-to-time, but let's get this party started ...


A, B and C

(A) Microbeads ...



... as in the excellent An Actual Scale Black Templar Crusade ...
 

... and Friday Quick Tip: Glass Bead Rivets ...

 
(B) Water filter (do not pay those mad prices, mine was £3.50, from the local department store) resin, ion-exchange, beads ...

Loads


Note the wonderful range of sizes (the black specks are charcoal and spikey, giving readers an idea on how to separate it, easily, from the spheres, if needs be - this was after one panning ;) ) ...

 
... as in the inspired and outstanding Baneblade Transformer, From Baneblade to Titan ...


... and "Rivets by the Million"

... and Making Smallscale Rivets

... and Making Rivets

(C) Old, hard drive 'filter' components ...

 

!!! DISAPPOINTMENT WARNING !!!


= Fail ...

 

Others: Steel bearing balls


... and Stainless Steel Balls

 


Others: If you wish to go the whole hog ...
 





Others: Commercial, polystyrene ('styrene'), hexagonal, rod, snipped and treated with 'bolts', as in Old Red Necron.


 

Additions to follow.

On Rivets, Nuts and Bolts - Nut flashback (2008)

Hex Nut Challenge: Clay Molding from CTF

Hex Nut Challenge and Hex Nuts - An Exploration, from The Colonel:

 


Just love those horsies

Vampire Counts Black Coach and Nightmare Horse conversion


Busy, yet beautiful, workbench

Good Morning WIPs

Very nice scratch-build from the past

Tha Ork HeliChoppa!