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STEP 3: Adding Rivets, rivets, and More Rivets
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Having 4 car sides to work on gives you plenty to do while
the recently placed decals dry. As with any other of my
decal project, I use Walthers Solvaset to snug down the
decals. This stuff lasts forever. I have had the same bottle for
over 15 years and it still works like the first time I used it.
Next I began the vertical rivets. I cut strips to match the
lengths needed. The areas under the door and at the door-
stop are shorter than the rest of the car. Again I used the
closely spaced rivets. The rivets are placed 2” from the right
hand side of the scribed line. It's important to take time to
make sure that the rivets were straight and parallel with the
scribe seams.
Once some of the rivets have had time to set, I began decal-
ing on the wide spaced rivets that come with the set. These
represent rivets that are spaced at two times the distance of
the first lines of rivets. These were placed 6” away from the
rivets along the scribed line and on the outboard side of the
car, the side away from the door.
I discovered that it is easy to dislodge the rivet decals from
the raw styrene. It appears that there is very little for the
decal to bite into to and hold on. So before I went any fur-
ther, I sealed the sides with Floquil Crystal-Cote.
