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Old 07-26-2013, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted by bguff
Measuring the kit. Not sure how else i would do it.
Thank you for clarifying that. In a few other postings here on YORF over the years, I've seen measurements that people have made (attaching copies of their resulting images) from kit insert card images and even catalog images, using graphics software. They scanned an image, scaled it using, say, the body tube diameter in the image (for which they determined the scale factor as compared to the full-scale body tube diameter), then used "movable lines" (my non-technical term for them :-) as I don't know what they're called) to determine the relative sizes of other parts as compared to the body tube diameter (making allowances for foreshortening). They usually only resorted to this when dimensional data for the rocket in question was very sparse.
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