Bolt Action

CLINIC: Hex Bolts for Re-inforced

Sticky Business

License Plate DIY - Part 4 of 4
License Plate DIY - Part 3 of 4
License Plate DIY - Part 2 of 4
License Plate DIY - Part 1 of 4

Transference

Applying dry transfers - Part 1
Applying dry transfers - Part 2
Working with dry transfers - Part 3
Working with dry transfers - Part 4
Part 5 - Working with resin Surface Details

Washing And Nuts

Nuts and Washer Tool
PH Designs - Adding more detail
PHD

Got the urge to paint and base an old Necron (Part 6)

Just wanted a quick, reference, image, now he has been base-coated and washed, before I rebuild the red metallic on the 'plates' and start to tidy and detail ...

Got the urge to paint and base an old Necron (Part 5)

Primed with my black, hand-primer, mix, then base-coated with Vallejo Liquid Gold silver and gold ...

Red test started, using my Vallejo/MP Paints mix ...

I have worked as hard as I intend to work (oh how I have worked), to get darker, metallic, red ...

Lesson learned: Darker, metallic, red is difficult to create and probably why we cannot buy it.

Got the urge to paint and base an old Necron (Part 4)

... and so it begins ...

Got the urge to paint and base an old Necron (Part 3)

Time for him to be b(l)ack ...

Got the urge to paint and base an old Necron (Part 2)

Base nearly ready for priming (once he is cleaned and attached) and 'Iron Man Red' recipe nearly sorted ...

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: Abrasive ceramic balls - silicon nitride - zirconia - silicon carbide

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

Miniature Rivets, Bolts and Nuts

 

... and Augmentables (Nuts, Rivets & Bolts)

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:

 

On Rivets, Nuts and Bolts - The tiny ones (Part 1)

Pop quiz on the third image ... any ideas on the sources?