is there a good tutorial on how to make helmet rivets and air vents in 1/35?
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Even the smallest plastic HO rivets are going to be oversize. Your best bet is the decal style rivets made by Micro Scale or Archer. The Micro Scale rivets look particularly good. You may not want to shell out $20 for this project. Perhaps someone on here can spare a few if you’re only doing a few helmets.
The air vent is trickier. If I were doing it, and thankfully I’m not, my solution would be to insert a tiny bit of hypodermic needle through a number 80 drilled hole, and cut it off just proud of the helmet surface. I’m pretty sure that would look like stir fried do do. So have you looked into these? (which can be scaled down)
Or these?
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I appreciate your help , kind of surprised there isn’t more of a home diy solution…dont most figure modelers add these details?
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My very quick research suggests the rivet head was 13mm. In 1/35 this would be 0.37mm. I’m a fairly lazy non-competitive modeller so don’t bother for that size of detail on a helmet, especially as the amount it’s raised from the surrounding metal in that scale would be even less.
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