isn’t a do hickey one of them things a girls gives you on the neck?
The last time I was at Home Despot I seen some do hickeys in aisle 13 along with the thingamajigs and the whatchamacallits I think.
never been able to find an aroundtooit at home depot
I will provide a picture of said do hickie when I get home. It is a plastic do hickie that I glued to a brass thingamajig. or maybe I used the brass thingamajig and a brass pull knob and opted not to use the do hickie at all. Either way they came out nice.
Now it is not my problem if your inadequate box store does not carry a supply of said hardware. That is a personal problem and I would suggest moving to a place that does have a store that sells them.
As promised here is the plastic do hickie and the brass thingamajig and the steam dome and sanding domes they made. There are some brass door pulls in there as well. The sand dome on the right is PVC conduit and a PVC coupling the stream dome on the left is pipe and fit on the Bachmann 2-6-0 base.
Randy McDonald said:
The last time I was at Home Despot I seen some do hickeys in aisle 13 along with the thingamajigs and the whatchamacallits I think.
Randy, yea but right now I need a thig-a-ma-bob.
I have some small lotion bottles somewhere. I saved them because the caps look like the fluted sand dome covers on Rogers locomotives. Now where do I put those things?
Graeme Price said:
To dilute my artists acrylics I use methylated spirits (I’m in Australia and I am not sure what it is overseas) instead of water. This decreases the drying time dramatically.
I just painted 6 ore cars in an just over an hour I could handle the paint after a few minutes.
I can even use them in my airbrush, got this tip from the plastic modellers at work.
To make smoke stacks for my locos I use probiotic containers (Yakult), I cut the top parts off of 2, then glue them together big end together I then use a cheap plastic click type hose joiner as my mounting onto the smoke box. The bottom part I use as paint cups.
This is a link to another site that I posted pictures of my probiotics smoke stacks.
I couldn’t find the pictures they must be on my old computer in storage.
Apologies for posting the link if that is against the rules, but hey I live in the colonies and we do stuff differently down here and that is my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Graeme Price said:
This is a link to another site that I posted pictures of my probiotics smoke stacks.
I couldn’t find the pictures they must be on my old computer in storage.
Apologies for posting the link if that is against the rules, but hey I live in the colonies and we do stuff differently down here and that is my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Nope …not against the rules and welcome Graeme
Devon Sinsley said:
I use the metal straight sewing pins for rivets. They come in various head sizes. I have a steam and sand dome made from PVC coupling for the base, pipe for the body, and various drawer pulls or other do hickies from the hardware store for the tops. Gives a old style Baldwin or grant look. Any king of pipe or tuning gets saved. same with wire. The stupid plastic stuff everything comes in today that is hard to open works great for windows. My wife used to have these fancy little lotion bottles with cool tops that I have saved for sand domes or smoke stacks or whatever.
My wife’s hobby is making greeting cards.
I was dragged along to a shop one day and while there I noticed some “embellishments” that looked exactly like a sting of rivet heads. They were self adhesive and when I used then on some gravel tubs that I made out of PVC pipe end caps they hid the joints well especially after a bit of paint simulating weathering.
I am now going to have to dig out that old computer to post some pictures.
My wife’s hobby is making greeting cards.
I was dragged along to a shop one day and while there I noticed some “embellishments” that looked exactly like a sting of rivet heads. They were self adhesive and when I used then on some gravel tubs that I made out of PVC pipe end caps they hid the joints well especially after a bit of paint simulating weathering.I am now going to have to dig out that old computer to post some pictures.
Well I hope you do dig it out. The pro biotic stack is awesome and I would love to see what your using for the rivets. it is amazing how people in all sorts of places have thought about large scale modelers when designing their products for unrelated purposes.
Devon Sinsley said:
My wife’s hobby is making greeting cards.
I was dragged along to a shop one day and while there I noticed some “embellishments” that looked exactly like a sting of rivet heads. They were self adhesive and when I used then on some gravel tubs that I made out of PVC pipe end caps they hid the joints well especially after a bit of paint simulating weathering.I am now going to have to dig out that old computer to post some pictures.
Well I hope you do dig it out. The pro biotic stack is awesome and I would love to see what your using for the rivets. it is amazing how people in all sorts of places have thought about large scale modelers when designing their products for unrelated purposes.
I have a couple of pictures but cannot figure out how to post them on here.
Hope this works
and i hope, it works next time…
and wellcome!
Korm Kormsen said:
and i hope, it works next time…
and wellcome!
Obviously my attempt to post a picture did not work so any suggestions on how I can post a picture on here?
Graeme,
You’ll need to load it on a server such as LSC Freight Shed, or Photobucket or one the other’s that are out there. Once you do that it’ll have an http:// address. Then you can copy that address and paste it in the window that pops up when you click on the “Tree” icon at the top of the “Reply” window.
OK here goes
As requested pictures of my gravel tubs with rivets made from greeting card embellishments.
Evidently they are known as pearls and come in a large range of sizes I use the smallest ones.
The tubs house the batteries and motor control board for an old Roundhouse “Big Hustler”.
The motor control is an LED dimmer with with picaxe reverse as described on Dabe Bodnar’s
site
The tubs are from an article in an NZ online newsletter called the " Garden Whistle".
http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/gap/Gravel%20tub.JPG
http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/gap/2%20Gravel%20tubs.JPG
Here is those pictures. Those are nice rivets. The cars are nice also. I will have to look for them at Michael’s
They have a taller dome shape than pins could be usefull when a beefy rivet is needed.
OK how did you get that to work?
When I tried all I got was “Not Found” message.
About the rivets in the middle they are covering a join where the end caps and a piece of PVC pipe join.
The tubs are 3.5" long.
I have also use PVC pipe and end caps to make tank cars.
All were bought from the plumbing section of my local hardware warehouse.
Another source of plastic rivets is a seller on ebay called “pasidump” who has 4 wheel wooden flat car kits really cheap which make agood base for kit bashing wagons.
Graeme,
Those are great looking rivets and this is timely for a project.
As I understand, these are called “embellishments”? And you found them in the Greeting Card creations area? Has anyone found these in stores in the USA?