ThomasModels said:
Mr. Shaw, take another look at my previous post and note the content of the quote. I was not making note of the possibility that desired information would not be forthcoming from anything you said.
The drawings you have refered to here and in a previous post where those drawings were sampled and comped with photos:
If we use Sinclair's numbers we find that 134/59.25 is not equal to 32.7/16 (or even 32.46/16).
I cannot speak for whomever wrote up, or reviewed the MR website adspace, but is it not possible that those numbers on the site are in err and not the model itself?
I believe that is the case.
It never occured to me to measure the width of it before placing it back on top my 10 foot high armoire, but it is definitely less wide then 16 inches. I measured how much room would be needed to clear the model when I first got it with the intention of immediately buying a display case and came up with a 33 x 16 inch measurement leaving sufficient clearance on both sides.
Since I still haven't gotten one, on top of a huge armoire bolted to my wall is about the only place I trust to keep it.
I suspect the 32.7 x 16 inch measurements were given to originally let collectors know the kind of display space they would need.
Since the length of the model is indistinquishably precisely the length of the Real World ship in 350th scale,
as I suggested earlier I'm inclined to believe that the other measurements(32.7 x 16 inches) on the page are basically approximations meant to tell the collector how much space they would need to display it.
Again, Shaw is right that the measurements do not agree, but I've never seen any info that any of the model's features are at all inaccurate.
I'm not relying on my own admittedly unqualified eyesight.
I cannot be called even an amateur expert on the precise contours, proportions, etc.
But I've never read where anyone who
is an expert on the subject has come up with any problems with it's accuracy.
I'll be the first to admit the paint job is not perfect.
There are one or two extremely small things that could have been executed better during build up.
But the model seems accurate from everything I've read so far.
If there are any inaccuracies I'd welcome anyone and everyone to chime in and list them.
Though I'd ask that people not list an errant drop of paint or other such thing on their particular build as an inaccuracy.
Thanks once again to Thomas for helping verify that the model was indeed build from measurements directly taken by the builders from the 11 foot miniature.
Perhaps others are right and a 1:350th scale model's measurements wouldn't help anyone with increasing the knowledge of the 11 foot miniature, even if the MR TOS E is very accurate.
But at least I know a little more about my MR model.
Good luck to all of you trying to document the old lady.
Clearly the MR Enterprise info isn't something anyone's interested in.
If I can think of some other info I can offer you or come across I'll be the first to share it with you guys.
:thumbsup: 
