advice on styrene wraps to add rivet detail

[nachoman]

I have done the same, and have had the same issues. I don't remember what thickness styrene I used, but I recall using testors liquid cement (in the square bottle), putting a few drops on, and then spreading it out to a thin layer before applying the overlay. In some cases, it did not hold the overlay real tight and I had to re-glue the corners, using small drops of glue applied with a straight pin. The trick I found to keep it from warping is to use the glue sparingly, and spread it thin before applying the overlay. It still warped some, and like you I had to redo some areas. The styrene does not take rivets nearly as well as thin brass, so next time i do something like this, I may do a brass overlay and secure it to the body with CA or some kind of contact cement. In the water car below, the overlay is all styrene, except the corners, which are brass.