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Making rivets and other small shapes

2011-06-13 Khaiell
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To make small, round shapes out of cardboard use an office hole punch (available also with funny hole shapes nowadays) or better still a DIY punching tool used to make holes in leather belts and the like

Tool for making holes

You can see how it is applied on the Eldar Portal:

Unpainted sci-fi portal
Unpainted sci-fi portal

And the finished structure looks like this:

Sci-fi portal (Eldar Webway entrance)
Sci-fi portal (Eldar Webway entrance)
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See the pictures as separate pages: Tool for making holes * Unpainted sci-fi portal with a lot of circular bling

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