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Old 01-22-2003 | 09:46 PM
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ProfLooney
 
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Default rivets

Originally posted by dany_maia
Hi.
You can see my work doing rivets at:
www.pbase.com/danielmaia

Thanks.
Looks good danny but you might wanna save ya sone time and hassles and grab up one of the top flight scale templates (part# TOPR2187) its really sweet as it has rivet size and placement, hatches, fuel caps and some other stuff in scale sizes from 1/7th scale all the way up to 1/3 scale. for the rivets you just slap it on your plane, line the panel line bar up with the panel line and mark the rivets which are set at scale distances to the panel line. Then when you are all done just go along and pop down all your glue drop or flush rivets.

Basically it saves a ton of time measuring and if you make the circles for the rivets to the size of the template you know how big to make the rivet for that scale.

Joe