Hello Kevin,
to be honest I invest a lot of time to rivets. I add between 45000 - 50000 rivets on Meister P 47. I try to made every row, like on real Thunderbolt.
Panel lines was made much faster. I checked now my topic, so I start adding panel lines at April 07.
That part of topic is here:
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10...15/key_/tm.htm from post 367 - 455
Now I looking dates on my topic, from panel lines to first color it need two and a half months.
OK, I'm not working just that, I was on Top Gun in mean time, but you need for sure few weeks, to work few hours a day, to apply all rivets, screws and all other detail. A lot of time was spent on measuring...
Regards
Mirce