I like rufus; I have used it for years, it can also be used to image the USB.
I think the hddRawCopy tool, is easier to use for members who have less experience imaging; there are also a lot of members who are already familiar with it from smOS.
I use an img format for the image; specifically to enable the use of most imaging programs.
This one is also easy to use and is available for mac / linux and windows:
https://etcher.io/Thanks, being on a Mac, etcher looks great. Saves me starting up Virtualbox

Just leaves me one thing: the Windows partition is unreachable with a Mac. Seemingly this has to do with some flags missing for the FAT partition. Anyone has a solution for this?
I have tested the v0015 zip on linux and it does produce an error as reported by several users. I am sure this is the same problem which occurs for mac users.
I had thought zip would be the same on windows or *nix, but it is not. The current v0015 zip was compressed with windows.
I made a zip on linux and it was a different size; I extracted the img from the zip on linux and windows, and it worked in both cases.
From now on I will make the zip on linux to ensure it can be unzipped on any platform.