Any news on this topic ??
What poured gasoline in my fire was Tomick, who said:


.. in the Official Build Diary here


Cheers Timm

[quote=Tomick]Russ, you already know the answer to your repeatedly asked question

http://forum.model-space...s&m=24079#post24079[/quote]

Hi Tomick, Thank you for the answer, seems I missed that post.
If I concider copper tiling, wouldn't it be smarter for me to skip most
of the detailed steps during the current UK issues, to finish the hull first after planking? I supposed one has to turn the hull upside down to do so.

Cheers, Timm

I read this last night, in another post, seems to sum things up, Underhill seems p*** off by the contant copper plating moans.


I don't post much as I just get on with things, I have posted a few times to ask a specific question, and received very good answers from Tomick and others. Now it may just be me, but I'm getting fed up with the copper plating thing. I looked back at my initial issue, and saw that copper plating would be an extra option at extra cost, if anyone is going down that line, why don't you just wait and see what happens. Tomick has stated in his official build diary that he is going to copper plate. So all you builders out there who are going to use copper just wind your necks in and just wait and see what happens, you will not be forgotten as Tomick is copper plating, I know I am repeating that a lot, but it seems that there are people on the forum that seem to think that this is a slagging off arena and general De Agostini put down area, but at the end of the day, thay are supplying us with a very good model, at a price that makes it affordable for us who cannot buy the full kit straight away. As stated by Tomick and Deag they can only help with the official magazine build, if anyone goes off and does their own thing with the kit, then it is up to the individual to sort out their own mess, and yet again, copper plating is NOT part of the build, it is an option, so lets just keep quiet about it until Deag and Tomick tell us when copper is available, and stop cluttering up the forum with questons about copper plating.

As I said at the start I don't post much, but when something irks me then I have to give my input.

Rant over.

Hi Timm

Unfortunatley we can only supply the UK through our current system, the German market are aware of our plans to supply the copper bottom as an optional extra but how they fulfil it will be up to each individual market.

Kind Regard
Admin

To those it may concern and especially
for all german members of the forum:

I have just contacted DeAgostini Germany and asked them about this subject.
Here is their answer:

Wir erhielten die Mitteilung, dass dieses Thema zur Zeit noch nicht abschließend entschieden ist. Sollte das Angebot auch in Deutschland gelten, werden Sie in jedem Fall darüber informiert.

We were informed that no decision has been made on this issue.
In case this offer will be available in Germany as well,
we will definitely inform you.

So lets wait and see.

Cheers, Timm

Funnily enough, as i was reading down the posts, that was the same thought that i had as well

i would like to add to this discusion,having seen a friend of mine from denmark,who at the mioment is coppering his cutty sark,what he is doing is using paper tiles stuck on brick pattern and overlapped,then spraying copper paint,so far the results look promising,I may go that way,and also use the pinwheel to replicate the rivots/copper nails.this seems to be a good and very cheap way to copper the hull.

Here you go spigs, http://www.tempsfordstai...d_Edco_copper_foil.html
I have used these guys for tape for coppering my Thermopylae build...very good value for money...just don't use strips more than 6" long as it may cause problems with expansion & contraction.To see what the effect is just click on the blue SV Thermopylae link at the bottom of this post & scroll through till you find the coppering part.Good luck

PS. Yes it is a stained glass supplier...but the best place to get the foil an old modeller told me.

The tape is self adhesive,have no idea about black or silver backing,when the backing tape was taken off mine it was copper.