advice on styrene wraps to add rivet detail

[UP2CSX]

Looks and now sounds good. Looking forward to the video.

 

[bob_suruncle]

Sigh....... why do things never seem to go quite right? I was finishing off some final details Saturday night and had a major blunder as well as finding a missed detail...

Missed detail first: somewhere somehow the front corner of the raised coal bunker on the tender has been broken off. I have looked at my pictures to date and it seems to have happened fairly early on and although its tough to see in the images... I now know its there... sooooo I ordered a new tender. I can't believe I missed this out of all the pics I took and the time spent working on and lettering the tender.... Ah well... next one will look even better right??

Blunder was one many of us have made but it still hurts.... was working with CA and managed to get a wee bit on my thumb... just enough to leave a mark on the side of the tener when I picked it up DOH

At least the sound install wont have to be re-done. Just have to paint, letter and weather the top of the new tender when it arrives....

Aint life just grand.

 

[UP2CSX]

That's too bad. I know it would probably eat at you knowing that piece was missing but I would have added a piece of styrene and made it look like a damage repair. When it's filled with coal and weatherd, I doubt anyone but you would have noticed.

 

[bob_suruncle]

When it's filled with coal and weatherd, I doubt anyone but you would have noticed.

And there in lies the problem..... I am my own worst critic. I am running it as is right now until the new tender arrives... hopefully post the semi finished pictures shortly

 

[bob_suruncle]

pics as promised. the cab seems to be slightly askew... will have to look into that

 

[UP2CSX]

Yeah, it seems like it's tilted back towards the tender a little. It may be an optical illusion bcause the rivet line on the bottom of the cab doesn't quite line up with the wakway line on the engine.

 

[jwhitten]

I've used .005" styrene as an overlay to show rivet details without any problems. I paint the area where the overlay is to go with a small paintbrush and not too much Testors liquid cement. Just enough to make the surface tacky, and not wet. All rivert details on this HO scale double ended plow were done this way:

I'm a beginner in the arts of building and scratchbuilding. Is there anyplace that demonstrates any of these techniques? I'm particularly interested in the 0.050 styrene rivet detail strip that you all are talking about. I think I understand the gist though-- emboss 'rivet heads' on a strip of styrene and then glue it to the model. What kind of tool do you use for that? How do you get everything to line up? What sort of glue / solvent should you use?

Does anybody have a pre-paint close-up of a rivet detail strip? How much of a ridge does it leave between the detail strip and the model? Is this sanded smooth or just left as it is? (Is it noticeable?)