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Hey guys I'm scratch building a drop pod ( see my other post) but I'm struggling to find something suitable for rivets any ideas would be much appreciated
Thanks in advance

One thing I have done in the past when I wanted some easy rivets (Orks) were to just buy some plasticard rods that were maybe 1mm thick or whatever size you want and just cut them up into tiny pieces and it looks pretty good.

I am sure there are more complicated ways but I just wanted to add a little something extra, nothing to crazy.

If you want to go the forgeworld route, open up a used water filter like a britta, there will be tiny plastic beads inside.

drill a tiny dent into the spot you want a rivet with a tiny drill then glue it in place.

Few things here:

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/wargaming-materials-tools/augmentables-nuts-rivets-bolts.html?p=1

Finely cutting plastic rod is the best in my opinion, you can also use drops of viscious glue if you're careful. best bet is to go the the Lord of Rivets threads.....

Dave is the King of Rivets http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/399826.page

I use the same approach as UnCool Villain with 0.75mm rods. It's a little fiddly, and you have to mind the glue lest the rivet disappear in a blob of it, but it comes out pretty nice. I put a small pool of glue on a piece of laminated cardboard that won't absorb it and use a paper clip to transfer a bit of glue to the spot I want the rivet in.

I use a 1/16" craft punch i bought of eBay for about £4. Just use it on an old yogurt pot or one of those plastic disposable drinks cup and you will have a lot of very uniform rivets in a very short time.

Cheers guys some great ideas here like the britta water filter idea but as I don't have one to hand probably gonna go down the rod route

IMO: "Britta pieces" are uneven and very difficult to handle. Rods are much better.

Try to find some suppliers on ebay. Look for styrene/plastic rods, and it should solve any problems.

Other thing is: hole punch pliers. You can find these with attachments that are just fine for our level of precision. Just make sure that cutting part is accessible from "behind", because you need to push out your rivets using small metal wire or something similar. I know the guy who made 1mm rivets of the paper, and hardened with superglue (personally - I wasn't impressed).

Or - just roll the greenstuf as thin as you want, let it dry... and you know the rest

Cheers.

/edit: link to that guy from ebay, I recently used:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/48-x-Styrene-ABS-Rod-Pipes-and-Square-Sections-ABS00-/160550503742?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item25618e453e

Thanks guys gonna go down the rod route.
Bored beard check these guys out for plasticard / rods they are who I'm using and a bit cheaper than ebay:
www.slatersplastikard.co.uk

Might not be any good for you but they are a 2 min drive from mine so its perfect for me

I've started using microbeads for smaller scale rivets. Basically the Brita filter method, but guaranteed to be perfectly shaped and without the trouble of cracking one open and harvesting them. Picked up a 3.2oz jar of them at a craft store (scrapbooking section, with the glitter, flock, embossing powder, etc.) for a few bucks and I have thousands of tiny dome head rivets ready to go.

I've done both the sliced rod and punched card methods (the punch is better, IMO - much more consistent results at the cost of slightly more material waste), but the look just doesn't cut it, for me. If I wanted flat head rivets peened on the inside, they'd be perfect, but that's not a common look (if trying to emulate current/historical methods) nor a particularly attractive one, compared to pan or dome heads (at least in my opinion). I'll still use the disks for some parts on intentionally clunky builds (i.e. Ork vehicles/terrain), but cleaner Imperial or historical parts get round heads, all the way.

http://tichytraingroup.com/

HO rivets are especially good for 40K.

That's genius saved me £3 my wife runs an embroidery shop she has thousands of those micro beads!!!

Here's a shot of my work in progress Ragnarok



The black rivets on the track guards are made from microbeads (used in caviar nail art), the larger armour studs are steel pin heads with a bit of the pin snipped off and glued into a rivet hole (just like the real thing). Microbeads are much better to work with than the beads from a water filter jug in my opinion (i've used both methods) as they can be glued with superglue whereas filter jug beads tend to dissolve. Like others have said, Antenocitis Workshop sell actual scale rivets which although are cool and easy to work with they are quite pricey. You can sometimes get a good bargain on ebay for model train rivets. It really depends on what style you want: flat or half round.

The rivet strip on the side of my rag's driver's compartment was made simply by drilling nearly but not the whole way through the strip so that it raises a bump on one side, the resulting cavity on the other side was then filled in with a smidge of GS to keep it from collapsing from an accidental knock or some over enthusiastic handling.

Good luck with your drop pod!

Might be abit big but you could always get a sheet of plasticard and use a whole punch to make lots of circular rivets. Good luck