Burpee: Danamo won what?
 Dimensions - The only dimensions I have are on a drawing that Danamo was kind enough to send me, but it only has gross sizes and not really fine/highly detailed information.

As my background is in engineering I can look at this kind of drawing and make estimations on how big things are. However, in the main I'm using photographs I hunted down on the net. This means I'm restricted because I can't always get pictures I need that show a particular object at the angle I want. So I'm stuck with extrapolating sizes by comparing various photos.

Inevitably, errors will creep in. When I find an error that causes a problem I have a choice of re-building or working around it. In the case of the 'oilers' there's simply too much work involved in re-building so I've re-designed to what I think is acceptable because on the overall view it makes no difference and with the pipes they might have done this anyway. In fact, I have photos that show that the pipe 'runs' have been changed over the years.

The oiler and pipes were created without using booleans. Obviously the rest of the model does use booleans but in B6 the convert option [C] causes two problems. The first is that the polygon count goes sky high each time you use this option, and the second is that the resulting mesh still leaves a bounding box that matches the original group's size. I find atm that it is best to use the [C] option only when I'm absolutely sure I've finished working on that particular group.

As for trust - you cheeky girl - you can trust me to do the best job that I can within the bounds of the challenge as it was originally set. I don't cheat and I won't lie. 

I do plan though to visit the museum where 4472 has her home and take as many photos as I can. I'm also actively searching for a set of plans so that I can make a highly accurate second model to sell through DAZ or Rendo or RDNA......whoever will accept it.

Thanks for your comments. They are much appreciated, as are those from everyone else who've contributed here.

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