[Mr. Ping]

Originally Posted by Gamerxz

Planning on producing those decals? im sure there are people that would be interested !

Anyone who is interested can contact me by PM


Small step forward.

The Scaglietti has two panels that cover the underside of the engine and the transmission. In the 1/1 I guess these are to improve aerodynamics and airflow under the car but in 1/24 the effect is to completely cover any detailing you do to them!

The panels themselves have quite a lot of bolts and rivets molded in which could be detail painted or p/e and or turned parts could be used.

The price of aftermarket turned rivets shriveled my chopsticks!
I decided to do some turned metal parts of my own. Don’t get too excited though, in this case “turned” just means that I “turned” on my Dremel motor tool.

Apart form my Dremel, I used my pin vice and a packet of around 50 sewing pins I picked up for $1.





The under plate was drilled to accept the sewing pins





To hold the pin securely and safely during cutting with my Dremel I made a jig out of styrene sheet the approximate thickness of my target length of pin shaft. I drilled a hole in the middle to feed the pin through.





A second disc was placed over the pin head to hold it in place and the sandwich was held together with pliers during cutting – secure and safe.





Next stage was to trim the pin to length using my Dremel with a cutting disc. First I cut it more or less to length (I hope you like the pyrotechnics in the photography)…





… and then ground it down to the desired length.




Useful/important tips at this stage:

The pin heats up very quickly from the friction and this heat in turn softens the plastic disc. Therefore I found it much better to apply the Dremel to the pin in short bursts so as to keep the temperature down and allow any heat to dissipate. also. I replaced the top, “holding” plastic disc with a piece of metal. This acted as a heat sink and greatly reduced the problem (but did not completely eliminate it).



With very little time and effort you should end up with a nice little pile of “turned” real metal rivets for under a dollar.





In the last picture you can see the rivets in place on the under plate. They were fixed in place with a dab of thick CA glue from behind set quickly with dab of Zapper.
(BEWARE of using thin CA, I did first time round and glued my finger to the front of the piece and had to strip and repaint LOL)