How to Simulate tonneau snaps?

[Vince311]

I’d like to add snaps around a truck bed. As if tonneau is off.
1:25 scale. 

How are others creating these? Dabs of silver paint? 

Edited February 13 by Vince311

[stitchdup]

i'd chop up some small evergreen rod and drill holes to stick them in. if your fussy you can always drill the centres when they are glued to the body

[johnyrotten]

I agree with Les. I just did something similar to make carriage bolts for a wood bed. 

 

 

Edited February 13 by johnyrotten

[Pierre Rivard]

Hi Vince, for this model I used weld balls, in this case 0.6mm. I drilled very shallow 0.5mm holes, a mini drop of canopy glue and then the ball. Hope it helps.

 

[peteski]

What is a "weld ball"?  First time I've heard of those.

[BDSchindler]

I deleted it.

Edited February 14 by BDSchindler
Apparently, I offended someone with my comment

[Vince311]

48 minutes ago, BDSchindler said:

I took the simple way out with a "hard cover". Fits tight on the bed and is removable...

 

@BDSchindler This isn't relevant. The question was not about emulating a cover.... but to create the snaps. 

Edited February 13 by Vince311

[StevenGuthmiller]

I always just use thin evergreen rod.

Drill holes of a corresponding size and glue in short pieces of rod.

Once dry, trim the rods and sand down to the length needed.

 

I've never used this method for a truck tonneau, but I use it frequently to add convertible top boot snap moldings.

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

[johnyrotten]

3 hours ago, peteski said:

What is a "weld ball"?  First time I've heard of those.

Not a term I'm familiar with, I weld professionally. Maybe he means the "splatter" from a mig or stick weld? 

[Beans]

5 minutes ago, johnyrotten said:

Not a term I'm familiar with, I weld professionally. Maybe he means the "splatter" from a mig or stick weld? 

Might mean solder balls.  small spheres of solder used for circuit boards and such I think.

[Pierre Rivard]

Yes, sorry guys, I meant to say solder balls...

 

[peteski]

Interesting. I've been dealing with electronic circuits (soldering included) for 40 years and I have never knew about solder balls!

I wish I knew about these when I was building N scale (1:160) pool table.  I made my own solder balls to use as cue balls, but they were a pain to make them all approximately the same size.

 

[johnyrotten]

3 hours ago, Beans said:

Might mean solder balls.  small spheres of solder used for circuit boards and such I think.

That makes sense. Thanks.

[OldNYJim]

I, too, never heard of solder balls before - every day’s a school day!