Well, that method would be a good way to get rid of the anger from a good build gone bad…
The bits I used were from Dremel, I think I got them at Home Depot:
just like this…
Here’s one where I used it to texture the turret weld on a Tiger…
Thanks ausf. I an odd coincedence, I am trying out two bits I just bought at Lowes- they look just like yours, which is a relief. I was guessing. When you do the rolled iron look, do you it at an angle?
thanks ausf, I’ll have to get me some of those.
i prefer the hot wire technique myself and then coming back later and roughing it up with a bur. Dremel makes decent burs for use on plastic. After you rough it up with a bur, brush some plastic solvent in the hole to soften the edges and melt it. Just remember, the hole will be bigger at the surface then where it ends and the paint around the hole will be toast due to the metal liquifying. Don’t make them too big either.
For the rolled texture, hold it as flat as possible and let it bounce around at the lowest speed you can. I use a flex shaft and give it a bit of a bend to change the speed some.
Thanks guys!
You need to look at a lot of impact points. After a while constant patterns emerge depending on the type of round, distance fired from and the angle of impact. Some are round with the edges slightly raised, a straight on shot. Some are gouges caused by angled hits. Shaped charged rounds leave sunburst patterns sometimes. The real trick is to replicate what you actually see. During the Gulf War I saw impacts that I had not seen in WW2 pictures. The DU rounds did not deflect. There were no gouges. No matter how shallow the angle of impact the round penetrated and exited the farside. Nothing inside stopped the round. Not breech block, not engine block, nothing. For that type round I would get a nail of the approx. diameter of the penatrator, heat it up and push it through. then go to the opposite side and finish the flight path out of the vehicle.
what i do is take a match light it. hold a screw driver over it for aboutten seconds and press it on the model and i do that until it looks satisfying. then for scorch marks i take some flat black and paint it on.
a lot of good ideas here! Thanks all