Help with fake weld lines

Dcrutchleo

New Member

• Jan 18, 2017

• #1

Can anyone help me out with making a fake weld line? I want to do one on a helmet and have no clue where to start.

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azheat01

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Jan 18, 2017

• #2

Dcrutchleo said:

Can anyone help me out with making a fake weld line? I want to do one on a helmet and have no clue where to start.

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I used a hot glue gun, came out excellent. I'll see if I can find pics......

 

cavx

Master Member

• Jan 18, 2017

• #3

I would suggest hot glue as well.

 

Postapocalympic

Active Member

• Jan 18, 2017

• #4

Yeah Hot glue, I use it on alot of my Fallout projects. Little silver and black paint and bam!

 

andrew25rs

Well-Known Member

• Jan 18, 2017

• #5

I think maybe it's been said but I'll add. Hot Glue is definitely the way to go.


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obiwan kowalski

Well-Known Member

• Jan 18, 2017

• #6

Maybe use a small circling motion while hot glueing just like a real welder would

 

cckaiser2

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RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Jan 19, 2017

• #7

I've used plumbers epoxy putty in small beads. A lot of the builders for ghostbusters proton packs use it for weld lines on a couple of items. I did see lots of images on the ghostbusters forum when I built a pack. Worked great.


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joberg

Legendary Member

• Jan 19, 2017

• #8

There's many way to make a weld (going down motion/going up motion) that makes for different "look" of the finish weld. I prefer a "going up weld" it looks better and the welding pros will tell you that it's a more solid weld also ...yeah, hot glue man, hot glue.

 

cckaiser2

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RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Jan 19, 2017

• #9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmSar7PFbDE&sns=em

Watch from 1:50 seconds for hot glue gun weld lines.




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justanuthercap

Sr Member

• Jan 19, 2017

• #10

I've used epoxy sculpt with good results and even green stuff for small areas. Just used a rubber tipped sculpting tool to push it up onto itself over and over after applying.

 

Dcrutchleo

New Member

• Jan 19, 2017

• #11

Well looks like my hunch was right. I appreciate it all. Thank you. Anyone have any of their finished pics I can use for reference?

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Dcrutchleo

New Member

• Jan 20, 2017

• #12

azheat01 said:

I used a hot glue gun, came out excellent. I'll see if I can find pics......

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Any pics of that weld line?

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ReelClones

Well-Known Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Jan 20, 2017

• #13

I used epoxy putty to do a fake weld on my Ghost trap build- you can see the pics of how it's done here http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=271653

 

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Dcrutchleo

New Member

• Jan 20, 2017

• #14

Here's the finished helmet. Still messing with the weld lines. Trying to get the color right.

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