Tiger6 wrote:I have serious doubts about using sites like Blueprints - their publically available images seem to have been scanned in from books or instruction sheets from various models, and I doubt the paid content is any better (honestly I wonder how they are still functioning, given the sheer volume of copyright infringement on display?).
Even in trying to knock up the basic space claim model for the other thread, I found inconsitancies between views in George Bradford's 'so called AFV Plans'
At least if you have the kit in your hands you won't have these problems - it might well be wrong when compared with the real thing, but at least you won't be scratching your head trying to reconcile 2D side and top views that simply do not line up...
Interesting, but I often wonder where makers of RTR models, and kits in 1/35 get their dimensions from. Tamiya do send reps out, to get the vital statistics on armoured vehicles from Museums, and armour collections;
but what do the other players do? A Tamiya 1/35 model is a good sort of maquette/ artist's model for the bigger version because of the amount of research that went into it. I used their Cromwell, for instance for my Ludwig Cromwell build, but who's to say where other firms get
their dimensions from?
Quite a lot of the blueprints on the Dutch site a produced by one man, it seems, Dr Saranga. That's a hell of a body of work for one man. Still, drawings can be had from official sources, such as the British Library, the IWM and so on, but I'm pretty sure he can't have accessed all of their stuff. However, the drawings I've used for the Cromwell, and Comet are pretty accurate, and so I find the resource very useful, if used with caution.
For my Comet build, I used a mix of dimensions and pics I took at the Munster Museum, and Bovington. The blueprints were useful reminders of components on various Marks of tank, as well as relative sizes. I also used pics from a reputable technical history.
Taking an average of all of these seems the best way to go, in my opinion.
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please"- Mark Twain.
My previous response, concerning the type of electronic controller package that could be used with an armoured car project, now looks a bit like a non sequitur. I thought I saw a query here about suitable controller systems...but, it appears, I must have been hallucinating. 
I guess it must have come from another thread, or 'senior moment'. 
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