Trumpeter TSM 9910 Rivet Maker Review

All right. I wouldn't plan on adding rivets to a complete model with this one. As other reviews have said you have to press really hard to do anything, it's thin and the size blocks the view of where you're going to put rivets. They are so small that I doubt they will remain after the paint is applied.

work great in straight lines, but as you'd expect, curves and tight/short spots are difficult. The design prevents it from being used in corners/crevices and rendering is best achieved with good side lighting as the tool casts a shadow on the workspace. Otherwise, what I needed turned out in the area where there were no details of the rivets, but they were clearly visible on the model. The amount of manual work with details has been significantly reduced.

This is a great idea for a tool and should have been more thought out. They have a metal wheel that spins on a thin plastic axle and with limited use you can see that the axle doesn't last very long. The grip tends to cover most of the wheel and it's hard to see where you are. title when using this tool. Better vision would be damn good if the axle was made out of a harder plastic instead of soft rubberized plastic.

I am by no means an expert in model making so I bought this Riveter hoping to improve my skills and make my models more realistic. The problem I found with this riveter is that the riveter wheels are too big to rivet the edges and corners. Of course, it's difficult to make right-angle rivets and the like, that's understandable. If the wheels were a bit smaller, it would help to get more rivets at right angles or in hard-to-reach places. It is difficult to see where the wheel engraves the rivets

Seriously. If you do any type of model building from 1:1 to 1:720 scale, you must own one of these, if not 4 of them! I've included some photos for the model making gurus to give you an idea of what patterns you can create with Trumpeter's riveting tool and what they actually look like (also note that I've added weathering dust to increase the contrast on white styrene to enhance). . If, like me, you make a lot of model kits and build from scratch then you know how time consuming and tedious it