Hi Ged,
Practice makes perfect! Maybe I should have said the outer wings were some of the easier details to add. Just lengths of strip, one layer deep, not parts on parts with time needed for each layer to cure before adding the next. It might look impressive in its finished state, but it was truly not so bad. A few of the other bits on the wings were just stretched sprue and maybe a disc or two from the punches. It went pretty fast. Not as fast as the 1/2 hour I'd mentioned as an expectation earlier, but not so bad either. Definitely not "3 attempts on the pulleys" bad, or "75% rejection rate on embossed wing panels" bad!
The punch set is a "Waldron Subminiature Punch and Die" set. I first read of it in Finescale Modeler 25+ years ago. Every year, I used to put it on my Christmas list, and finally my wife came through about 10 or 15 years ago, when we were finally learning about online shopping. I remember she was relieved on Christmas day when it was the right one, because she said it had been quite expensive. I just did a quick search and found it fast, and sure enough, it is quite expensive - $100 range. Ah well, money well spent. Mine has seen a lot of action and I couldn't live without it!
With respect to copies, I am actually planning on making molds of the whole ship. I'm not planning on selling it as a kit, but I am making a copy for my wife. I was trying to keep that a little quiet because I don't have the time to go into sales and didn't want to disappoint anyone. However, I figured it would eventually become a logical question to ask.
Cheers,
K.