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kris gorham
United States
albuquerque
New Mexico
I wasn't born ! I sprang from the forhead of God , as he contemplated a particularly vile joke !
I wasn't born , I was hatched in the deepest darkest part of the ocean , and raised by sharks !
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Back in February , a month after FFG contacted me about being part of their community contributors , I came up with the idea of "Tricks and Tips" , and later when I was finally able to reach him , suggested it to Anton at FFG , as stated elsewhere , didn’t hear back from them , so their loss is your gain . The idea to "Tricks and Tips" was a series of simple posts , with big implications . Giving a simple idea that could make something cheaper or simpler than previously established methods . The cardboard terrain post was originally born from that idea , but as I went , it got much bigger , and became an post all its own .
Here is one of the "Tricks and Tips" that I have been holding onto , enjoy ........
In miniatures gaming , there are certain trends or aesthetics that have a big visual wow factor . On such trend is the use of bolts/rivets on armor and war machines . Now there are 3 generally accepted ways to do them .
The old school way is to use white glue , dabbing a tiny dot onto the item and letting it dry . The effect can look nice , but its hard to get uniform sized dots all the way across the project .
The second is to take a piece of plastic rod and an exacto knife and slice the rod into disks and glue them in place , which takes a lot of practice and patience to get the slices uniform in length , and its boring as hell and will drive you nuts when you need a million bolt for one project .
The third method is newer , and even I only discovered it recently . There is a company that makes raised decals of bolts , very small and when painted over have a 3d effect , but they are all small , meant to be used on rail road cars , so unless your pattern matches their decal strips , you have to cut them all apart and apply them individually .
So here is MY idea , and its super simple , and the only tools you need is a hole punch , preferably one with a catch guard to catch the holes as you punch them out .
Now sure , the holes are much to big for the projects we use them for , unless you punch them out of SHRINKY DINK sheets . The standard sized hole punch shinks down to about 2mm wide , which is just less than 3/32 inch .
Now just follow the instructions for baking them , and wha la , you have as many UNIFORM bolts as you need , and you can even use the punched shrinky dink scrap , bake it down and add it to bases or scrap piles for terrain .
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