Hi everyone I've been working on a load of different Miniatures lately, and even some more commissions! and Decided to share with Everyone how I'm doing my rivets! There is in fact many ways to accomplish this, both with green stuff and plastic card rods,but I'd figure I'd share this technique with others hoping to learn Pin riveting!
In this tutorial I'll be adding rivets to a basic Tactical Spacemarine to create a Carcharodon "space shark"
There is many ways to do rivets, however very few honour the BLOOD GOD!
haha make sure you wear gloves for this one! it can get a little bloody if not: Case in point:
No pun intended...
- Pins of any size that best suits your need
- 2 Large craft Magnets
- Clippers
- Hobby Knife/pin drill
- |Washable Sharpie
- super glue
- thick gloves
- random piece of sprue
- a Miniature
Heres some of what you'll need in photos:
Now that you've done all your shopping and dragged out your hobby tools (you should begin on a test piece of sprue and then move on to the actual miniature once your comfortable with the technique)
Begin with using the washable sharpie by marking your miniature where you'd like to add the rivets:
(note the three existing rivets! one extra then the heresy armor but I wanted it to have more)
I use the washable sharpie jut in case you over draw your hole
once holes are all drawn and alignment decided begin by taking your fine tipped hobby knife, or pin drill and creating a whole! a pin drill is the easiest, but I've been using my hobby knife!:
Start with putting the pin in the clippers at the very end of the pin head, this is very straight forward:
put one of the magnets over the pin at he sharp end of the pin (I only figured to do this after a few pin blow backs to the clipping hand, that resulted in stabbings, and the second magnet to the front of the pin, do avoid launching!
cover the second second magnet in the palm of your non clipping hand and...
Squeeze and cut the pin!
Then make sure the magnet tip is facing down and the cut end up! and move it to place at the end of the magnet!
now add super glue, either glue the cut hole or the end of the pin tip on the magnet, but sparingly, a needle tipped super glue tube is best used for this! as you don't want to adhere the rivet to the magnet, or spread glue across your miniature!
Once Super glue is added to the pin head using the magnet quickly push the end tip in place using the magnet, wait a few minutes to dry and repeat the process!
Now use your hobby knife to clean up the plastic/resin flashing around the rivet!
oh and a tip if you make the holes to big you can add a little bit of greenstuff/liquid green stuff to fill the hole!
if doing this on plastic card pin drill right through and clip the pin off on the other side for a sturdier bond! and then glue it to the object!
This whole process can be a lot of work, but I absolutely love the result, and enjoy doing it so its definitely worth it!
Heres a Few miniatures that have had this process successfully done to it:
I sincerely hope this helps anyone who is planning on doing any pin riveting work in the future!
Any questions, comments, concerns, or Conversion/Painting inquiries leave us a comment or email:
chimera-miniatures@hotmail.com
Thank-You
Tyler Read
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