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Hey people, my people.
I want to know what all you modelers and converters out there use when it comes to rivets, studs and bolts.

At the moment I am resorting to slicing off pieces of a long cylindrical bit of plastic.
This is okay for small studs or rivets but are lacking that distinctly rounded appearance.

At this point I guess I'm hoping there is something out there that comes in various sizes and individual pieces that I do not have to cut myself.

Cheers

Small nails from my hobby shop, thin plastic tube, and drops of glue.

As an aside, this forum is only for finished models, not questions mate.

 greg0985 wrote:
Small nails from my hobby shop, thin plastic tube, and drops of glue.

As an aside, this forum is only for finished models, not questions mate.

Yikes!! This meant to go in the P&M forum
If there are any Mods out there, would you kindly move this thread to the appropriate place for me please.

Heh, we've all made that mistake before man

Just thought I'd add: if there's any shops around you that cater to model ship builders, that's where you can get TONS of scale bolts, nails, and other do-dads.

Doomthumbs's tutorial on coins works equally well for rivets.

Long story short: roll a 'snake' of Green Stuff. Cut thin 'coins' off of it. Use as studs. Use a shaping tool (or wet toothpick) to bevel the edges if you fancy.

Hope that helps.

Or buy a small hole punch. They come in many different sizes and can get really tiny. Then all you do is just sit down and watch a movie or show while you punch rivets out if plastic sheets. I find yard sale signs works rather well.

The lack of round heads is what largely has turned me off of using punched disks and sliced rod, for most studding/riveting tasks. Now, I drill a shallow depression and glue in a microbead (tiny plastic spheres, available at craft stores - a few bucks gets you literally thousands of them) or small ball bearing (don't have a source for these, but I've accumulated enough over the years for the odd larger stud), instead. Since the depression required is shallow, only requiring a twist or two of a pin vice (I actually have one of those spiral twist drills, which works perfectly with a single stroke), the time and effort required isn't much greater than punching/slicing and attaching equivalent styrene rivets.