Riveting fun for a wet Friday morning:-
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I have a Plateway Narrow Milk Van in construction (it's in the paint shop now!) which has lots of hinges. Taking comfort from the fact that I have glued rivets to a couple of engines I decided to have a go at the hinges. I ordered some 3mm nail art to do rivets on the ends of the van, they have not arrived yet, and in my searches saw that a chinagraph pencil is sometimes supplied with them. I tried using one to pick up a rivet to dip in some PVA, very successful but it would not deposit the rivet again. Next I tried using the point of a scalpel, dipping the rivet in glue and placing in situ. This worked well for a few rivets then I started leaving them in the puddle of glue, ho hum, small paintbrush used to dot the glue in the printed circles and place with scalpel. That was reliable.
Phil
I have not documented the building of this van, it was my first attempt at such, perhaps when I build another one I'll be braver!