Wasp 11

I now had the major "steel" assemblies done. One of the distinctive characteristics of this period's technology was plentiful and obvious rivets. I considered several methods for making rivets, such as applying drops of white glue or putty or slicing thin sections of styrene rod and cementing them one at a time. All of these methods had in common that they involved making each rivet individually, obviously a time consuming and tedious task. I looked for an alternate method and found it in the pounce wheel. This is a small toothed wheel mounted in a handle. Used by garment makers to transfer patterns to cloth, ship modelers have adapted it for making nail heads on copper plates for ships' bottoms. It had obvious potential but the question was how exactly to apply it. The technique I developed was simple and quick.
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