Hi Mike, by golly it is pretty close to yours!
The plastic rivets are glued on one at a time with green CA. They are made from sheet styrene, you can use various thickness for the effect that you want to produce. the ones in the pics are from .015 plastic. I have a punch block made from steel that has a hole drilled into it the same size as the punch. The punch is made from music wire in what ever DIA that you want the rivets to be.
Now that you have just punched out 10,000 rivets you need to glue them on. First lay out the pattern on the plane. I just use a #2 pencil with very light pressure, this way when all is done you come back and wipe the lines with denatured alcohol to remove them. Don't want them bleeding through paint. One of the tools that you will need is a clear, flexible plastic ruler. You can see through it to line up each row of rivets, this way they are all perfectly straight and uniform distance apart. Since it is a ruler with increments already marked out, this makes it very easy to space the rivets exactly 1/4 1/8 apart, what ever your scale is. since the ruler is flexible you can tape it in place around curves, fuse, where ever is needed.
So you now have your pattern layed out, your ruler taped next to your line, your rivets ready to pickup with a new exacto blade, if the blade is sharp all that is needed is to just touch the rivets and this will pick them up. Take a paint brushed dipped in zip kicker and paint 5 or 6 inches of your rivet line, this makes them stick instantly and not wander off course. Pick up a rivet, dip it into green CA, just barely touch the puddle of CA, to much will leave a ring outside of the rivet, then touch down in its location, with the zip kicker already applied. Now just walk down your ruler and glue a mess of them on. you will be surprised at how fast they can go.
I think they are much better than glue drops as they are the same as the next one, no dimples and using the ruler they are all perfectly straight.
They work well if you have a glass fuse that has rivets molded in. You can use them to duplicate them onto the wing and tail surfaces as you can make them any size and thickness that you want.
Oh yah and by the way, you have to watch lots of hockey games while you apply them.
Give them a try, you will like them. Dave.