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I bought some plasticard for some orky conversions. But many of the materials used to make ork veichles have loads of nuts and bolts how do I make them.

The simpliest way is to find plastic rods of various thicknesses (usually very thin) and cut them up into sections. Other methods include using a single drop of glue (applied with a thin needle) and allow that to dry, the surface tension holding the glue in a bolt-like shape. Finally, you could just cut off existing rivets from other vehicles and carefully glue those on.

I use art decco beads, sometimes called glass micro beads, they are small beads of glass that are spherical but without holes, they come in a few different sizes, all you do is drill a hole the diameter of the bead wide and hald the diameter deep put a blob of glue in and drop the bead on top hey presto you got a rivet.

I also use em for mkV astartes legplates but thats more of a self punishment ritual as its so damn frustrating and fidly.

And here I thought he was asking for 28mm scale nuts and bolts, lol.

These guys have the right idea, though if you were looking for scale-size, unattached bolts or rivets, get an eyeglass repair kit and use the screws in there.

The thing I always use for rivets is just normal plasticard (1mm thickness in this case) I bought a leather punch for like 5 bucks at a garage sale, and then got a new punch for it. Now when I need rivets I just grab some scrap plasticard and punch em out

Or if you are a stickler for detail you can buy plastic nuts, bolts and rivets from Grandt Line:

http://www.grandtline.com/model_railroad/augmentables_pages.htm

Like Orkboy I use 1mm thick plasticard and a "button" hole punch that punches 2 at a time.

Plastruct makes hexagonal styrene rod in multiple diameters. You could also try a local hobby store that carries nuts and bolts for HO scale trains. And you might check out Detail Master, they make photoetch for model cars.