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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] They use the water dislacement method to figure out the volumes of dinosaurs. Solid plastic models are usually used. If you did the same thing with starships, you would need to fill it with some sort of heavy material and seal it. The water needs to be kept out or else the model wouldn't displace any water and it needs to be filled with something or else it would float. I actually tried to do this and it was a mess. I found that making a model in plasticine (oil-based clay) is easier and drier. You don't need to make the whole ship, or even a half. For a ship with a circular primary hull, just make a pie-wedge-shaped section. The clay model is built on a photocopy of a blueprint. You then destroy the model, shape it into a cube or rectangular solid, measure the edges and multiply. This method is more accurate than using water. By the way, remember that since we're working in three dimensions, you need to muliply the volume of a model by the cube of the scale. This means if the scale is 1/1270, you need to multiply the model's volume by 1270 x 1270 x 1270. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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