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hi guys this is for anyone who wants to know how to make space marine studded shoulder pads, or mk 5 armour hope others will put there ideas and pics on how they achieved these fiddly things


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this really works of me.but if any of you guys would like to add please feel free

I've seen sliced GS balls used as rivets, as well. Honestly, the difficulty in maintaining uniform size and shape makes this method less than ideal. It's easy enough to come across small round beads, ball bearings, pin heads, etc. that countersinking near-perfectly round objects seems the obvious choice. I would only use this method if time were somehow a crucial factor and I couldn't source the parts

[edit: Came across a perfect example in the next thread I looked at.]

Red_Starrise wrote:Ok, here's pre-paint pics of studded shoulder pads made using 1mm microbeads

Looks cool, recently ive been doing this with the liquid green stuff. Just put it on a small tipped brush and dot on the LGS where you want it. Looks awesome and theres no seem at the base of the rivets/knobs. havent had any problems with durability.

nice one guys thanks for the posts

Another way to make the studs more stable and stop any risk of them falling off is to make small drill holes with a model drill and glue wire into the holes before adding the green stuff balls over the wire.

nice, i am going to use this idea! thanks