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[ColinB]

The Nordkap kit calls for the bending of brass rods into rungs for the cat ladder (see attached). Can someone recommend a cunning trick how you would get them identical as 14 need to be made.
I had the idea of using heavy duty staples instead as by luck they are the same size and general shape.

[Circlip]

You need t make a simple jig.


  Regards Ian.

[T888]

Colin,




I use these


https://www.emodels.co.uk//trumpeter-handrail-jigs-6-sizes-09921.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_8zMzrCx_wIVD8jtCh0GoAanEAQYASABEgJ_9PD_BwE

[ColinB]

Thanks Dave, I started the boat back in the 1980s so things have changed. The speed and direction controls I fitted are Heath Robinson stuff, particularly as components were hard to find in South Africa back then where I was living at the time.


Cheers


Colin

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

I used a needle nose pliers, and stuck the brass rod into the pliers at
the same point for each bend like a depth gauge. 

[ColinB]

Cheers mate 

[Akira]

I use model railroad hand irons.

[John W E]

hi there


Two versions of the wire rung steps; the first is of bent wire over a pair of pliers and the wire I use comes from a 5 amp flat twin and earth electrical cable.   I strip out the earth section of the copper wire, stretch the wire between a vice and a pair of pliers so it becomes nice and straight and use that.   This is the version which is on the funnel of the warship picture.


The next version is the one you are thinking of, using staples and that is on the front of the bridge and bridge wings.


The only thing you have to remember is good coating of paint - as sometimes they can go rusty and it shows.  Although it could be classed as weathering when it goes rusty.


John

[dodgy geezer]

I sometimes use the snipe nose pliers trick, but if i have a lot fo do i wrap wire round a recrangular formef and then cut down th[size=78%]e sidez...[/size]