Purchased shortly ago / sthg new in your workshop -> present it here

Jack Sparrow said:
well. it's not bad but you need a steady hand to make the thing roll straight. I think I need more practice but one thing is I wouldn't make more than 3 tiles at a time, which is one rotation of the tool. That corresponds to the extent that I can keep the thing rolling in a straight line. I want to work with plates and not a long strip of copper tape so I will cut the pieces into plates.

What do you think:

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As for rolling the tool straight, I have a solution. Make a "U" channel from wood, with a slot on the inside of the bottom as the copper strip. The sides will support tool as you roll it down the channel. The channel keeps the tool straight. Because the outer sides of the tool have the round ends of the axle sticking out, glue some wooden shims to the side so the tool such that the tool just fits within the channel, loosely enough to move, tightly enough to guide the tool straight. Let the channel guide the tool. You can whack out several feet of perfect riveted copper strips in seconds.
 
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
As for rolling the tool straight, I have a solution. Make a "U" channel from wood, with a slot on the inside of the bottom as the copper strip. The sides will support tool as you roll it down the channel. The channel keeps the tool straight. Because the outer sides of the tool have the round ends of the axle sticking out, glue some wooden shims to the side so the tool such that the tool just fits within the channel, loosely enough to move, tightly enough to guide the tool straight. Let the channel guide the tool. You can whack out several feet of perfect riveted copper strips in seconds.
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that is excellent. thanks. really appreciate the feedback from all of you.
 
Jack Sparrow said:
well. it's not bad but you need a steady hand to make the thing roll straight. I think I need more practice but one thing is I wouldn't make more than 3 tiles at a time, which is one rotation of the tool. That corresponds to the extent that I can keep the thing rolling in a straight line. I want to work with plates and not a long strip of copper tape so I will cut the pieces into plates.

What do you think:

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Interesting, I purchased this tool when I bought the Trinnidad kit and was wondering how well it would work
 
So, I saw they make this tool in 2 sizes. I can't imagine that would be accurate for all ships in all scales. And also what about the pattern for the "rivets"?
 
Corsair said:
So, I saw they make this tool in 2 sizes. I can't imagine that would be accurate for all ships in all scales. And also what about the pattern for the "rivets"?
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ah yes the philosophical debate about whether to treenails or not to treenail, that is the question. I am going to try, for the first time in my 5 boat career, adding treenails to my model.

I was not aware that there were two sizes for this tool. Can you refer me to where you saw that? I am interested in seeing what size that other one comes in.

I can't comment on the pattern and it's historical accuracy. I will do some more digging.
 
Jack Sparrow said:
ah yes the philosophical debate about whether to treenails or not to treenail, that is the question. I am going to try, for the first time in my 5 boat career, adding treenails to my model.

I was not aware that there were two sizes for this tool. Can you refer me to where you saw that? I am interested in seeing what size that other one comes in.

I can't comment on the pattern and it's historical accuracy. I will do some more digging.
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I went to the AL website and they show it in 5MM and 6MM.
 
Corsair said:
So, if you are building a 1/96 USS Constitution, to be scale they would need to be about 3.7 MM tall and about 12 MM long each according to my documentation. (I found the sheathing plate size online which was 14"x48"). So, what you have is pretty close. :) I think the results look great !
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excellent news. tks
 
Jack Sparrow said:
Now they didn't include a light kit for the boat, did they?
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It is an extra purchase, I still have the same kit I bought for Soleil Royal and didn't use. I will utilise it on this model. As mentioned earlier, I bought the kit in their promotion so I got the Paint set free. I bought the set of Figures and Copper tile tool as well. I was also going to buy the mini tube bender for the lanterns, but that was out of stock.
 
NMBROOK said:
Always fancied building a model of this vessel in Trafalgar columns, when this was released I had to add it to the stash. Brief unboxing/review imminent in the relevant thread

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Just went to AL’s site and recommend everyone do it and watch the 6 minute video. This kit looks incredible. I’m not sure how much the LED kit costs, but if I were to purchase this kit, I’d have to find the extra cash to get it (or figure out how to duplicate it). Can’t wait to see a build log on it.
 
HughLo said:
Just went to AL’s site and recommend everyone do it and watch the 6 minute video. This kit looks incredible. I’m not sure how much the LED kit costs, but if I were to purchase this kit, I’d have to find the extra cash to get it (or figure out how to duplicate it). Can’t wait to see a build log on it.
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From memory the LED kit cost me about 25 Euros when I purchased their Soleil Royal.
 
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