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Is anybody ever going to do a fully-corrected Niagara drawing?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] I feel so out of league here - I couldn't do any of this measuring stuff since I don't even have those differently scaled E-D models available. But I got a sudden urge to sprout out some stuff that may or may not be helpful. :) 1) When Ed Miarecki assembled his ships, he most probably did not have access to any studio models or their molds. He worked solely on ERTL kits and non-Trek materials. Which doesn't mean he wouldn't have customized a part or two (like the Kyushu bridge module). 2) Greg Jein had access to lots of Trek studio stuff, and devoted more time to the construction (for one thing, he only had to do two ships!). He was probably also unwilling to use the commercial kits, since he typically builds big. 3) And Okuda and Sternbach had access to both types of stuff. The only time they are known to have messed with the big BoBW ships is the attaching of a second nacelle to the Buran, though, and the first one would have been an ERTL part in any case. 4) The Niagara secondary hull size cannot be established properly by using the FF image, because even the shape is wrong there. The shape of the real Ambassador hull seems to be agreed on by most Ambassador drawings. 5) The Freedom is probably a big and detailed model, since it was used on the foreground like the other Jein ship. Doesn't mean she's a big ship in "reality", of course. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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