SPY007,....curious name but anyhow.
Im going to use your excellent question as an example.
Its nothing personal and I thank you for allowing me to.
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Depends where you measure from. But it sounds like your in the ball park.
a better question is, whats the exact diameter of the circle,....and then How far does the mandible stick out from that,... BEFORE PLATING and BEFORE you are adding parts. IE. How big is the skeleton?
Any top shot of the Model will give you that info.
f you look...you can see the edge.
You have to be able to see where those edges start in the photo. Use the existing model peices to scale your measures. You DO have some of the real kit parts for reference don't you?
If you are not able to do this, you will not be able to complete anything else on the ship. If you can learn to do this, then our measures are meaningless and you will have no problem completing this worthy scratch build.
This is why we never answer measure questions. That,...and we are continuously correcting out info.
We often get hate mail from angry folks wanting measurement info.
Which is not the case here with SPY007, but it has happened.
If we randomly give out info, we do more harm as we have NO Idea what reference base you are using. Or it gives you a false hope that should you get stuck, just ask Moe or Frank or Tim.
How far is the transmission from the Tamiya part X. Well, that depends where ya glued part X too. Assuming its Right where it should be as it is on the studio model the answer is XX mm. But if you have it off, then the measure is meaningless and it wont look right and we get accused of giving BAD INFO.
Thats why we have chosen the NO INFO route. ID rather keep my mouth shut then send someone down the wrong path.
I bugged Tim for years to help me build my own falcon. Even when he FINALLY gave in and got me started...( huh Tim) I soon realized that unless I was able to determine HOW to pull info out of photos myself....it was hopeless.
Tim showed me how to do that and Im forever grateful.
Here is what he told me.
Get Every photo you can.
Identify as many kits as you can and place as many of them in front of you in the area you are looking at on the model. Now measure them in real life and in the photo. Now scale your measure and measure the dimension you need in the photo, take into account there will be some photographic distortion so cross reference same measure from another angle from another photo.
You will get your answer.
For those of you that forgot Algebra. a/b = x/c
A equals measure from real part in real life.
B equals measure of part in the photo.
C equals measure your looking for thats Next to you part in the photo.
X equals what the C should be in real life.
Solve for X
"Give a man a fish he eats for a day...TEACH him to fish he eats a lifetime."
We have always said, scratch building THIS model is a "right of passage".
its the ultimate in photo interpetation, part identification and proportional artistry.
Dont sweat it if you cant do it.....MR will be out with one soon Im told.
Which will look great sitting next to the ATAT.
;-)
Frank
Originally posted by SPY007@May 3 2005, 03:24 AM
Hello:
Existing info varies a lot on this models length. Morton's "plan" says his model is 80cm, while the existing thread (which I have read entirely) says his model is actually 32.75 inches (closer to 83cm). That is quite a differnce. I'm trying to work out my own plan and really need some expert advice. I have posted new, since no has responded to my questions in the existing thread.
Thanks
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