Making the ship's wheel with the Spin tool and DupliVerts

There are four parts to the ship's wheel: the rim, the hub, the spokes, and a circle to put the spokes on. You will make them in that order. The Spin tool is like a 3D lathe that creates circular objects. Dupliverts uses the vertices of an object to control the placement of copies of a second object.

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