chisel cut' rivets

[brian]

he is the base of 61a ferret scout car.

[mike]

Or .... these rivet was riveted too hard?
See, both upper and underside of the model.
(our model 55a)

Please for your opinion.
Thanks Mike & Nico

[kwakers]

The rivet on your military Duck could have been hit way too hard at the factory Mike by an inexperienced worker on the rivet machine. I would say that is likely because the rivet is way too large in diameter, but shows no 'after factory' damage to it from obvious drilling or punching. If the base had been pried away from the body, the floor would be depressed rather than up in the air and missing such a large diameter of it's paint. Because the damage seems to be concentrated around the rivet only, stepping on top of the model could cause the same damage, but would not explain that huge overflattened rivet
On the 25D roof rivet Brian, Caveman kwakers has barely mastered the computer, let alone a digital camera. If you were to split the round roof rivet directly in half with a sharp chisel, both sides would fold down to hold the plastic window assembly in. It is very easy to spot through either side window, because the split on both of mine is from side to side and the split rivet is folded down towards the front and the rear of the roof..........kwakers

[SMS88]

The rivet on your military Duck could have been hit way too hard at the factory Mike by an inexperienced worker on the rivet machine. I would say that is likely because the rivet is way too large in diameter, but shows no 'after factory' damage to it from obvious drilling or punching. If the base had been pried away from the body, the floor would be depressed rather than up in the air and missing such a large diameter of it's paint. Because the damage seems to be concentrated around the rivet only, stepping on top of the model could cause the same damage, but would not explain that huge overflattened rivet
On the 25D roof rivet Brian, Caveman kwakers has barely mastered the computer, let alone a digital camera. If you were to split the round roof rivet directly in half with a sharp chisel, both sides would fold down to hold the plastic window assembly in. It is very easy to spot through either side window, because the split on both of mine is from side to side and the split rivet is folded down towards the front and the rear of the roof..........kwakers

The pair of RW25d that I have with roof rivits both have them unspun - Lesney must have realised very early in production of this new model that the rivit was not only superfluous but also delayed assembley so removed it from tooling when they had the time to do so....

[kwakers]

The most common found early rivet models are unspun as yours are Mick. It took me lots of looking before I finally got just one that is Spun just like a base rivet. Mine was advertised by and came from an older U.S. collector. That one had been a four year search for me because I was not able to find them at toy shows and most on E Bay were the later peg style roof alignment pin or just untouched rivets with both round and oblong style holes in the plastic window inserts. I am sure more of the chisel cut rivets will be found once everyone checks their variations on this Cortina. Kwakers. Thanks for checking yours Mick!!