could someone please shw or tell me where the signage decals for the TOS enterprise were positioned on the model?
You mean the "micro" decals that were intentionally too small to read, at least until the Smithsonian/NASM era of detail photos?
I could help with that by digging some photos up, but it won't be for a couple of days (don't ask). In the meantime, you might find some good images here: http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/index.php?cat=11 Obviously, you're looking for pics of the saucer's underside and the Engineering hull's starboard side.
I found some relevant photos but I'm having a bad time with my image hosting accounts for some reason. I could email them to you if you want.
There are definitely resources out there that have detailed photos of the model. For one, the Smithsonian refurbishment crew posted lots of them recently, for sure.
Gary Kerr, who worked on the restoration, posted a lot of pics in this thread on HobbyTalk: https://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/99-s...-original-nacelle-domes-11-ft-enterprise.html
The Trek Art Forum might be a good place to as about this, as a number of people there have researched the model in order to do reproductions.
So much detail that would never be seen on TVs of the day. Or even now? Like carving the tops of gargoyles.
https://web.archive.org/web/2010010.../Sets&Vehicles/STEnterprise/EnterpriseTop.htm Wayback machine still has Cloudster archived
AHA! (I can never figure out the wayback). This page has some shots of the signage: https://web.archive.org/web/2009042...ehicles/STEnterprise/SmithsonianMiniature.htm
The presence of such details bolsters my view that the ship would have looked good on the big screen in a feature film in the late 1960s. Kor