Young Lawrence,
You are giving out somewhat misleading information here.
i General arrangement "as fitted" set.
Order the following:
(a) Profile
(b) Forecastle deck
(c) Superstructure and bridge decks
The above should be orderd at HALF SIZE of the original; the originals will be drawn at 1" = 8'.
ii (a) "as fitted" rig sheet
(b) "as fitted WT sheet
The above should be ordered at full size. The originals wre drawn at 1" = 16'.
It is likely that some As and As are contained on the original "as fitted" set.
Seperate A and A fly sheets for wartime are unlikely to have survived in this case. And any way this is not required in this case.
There is no such thing as an above deck profile sheet, there is just the profile sheet.
If the plans are ordered at a scale of 1" = 16' then costs will be very much reduced.
Laurence Batchelor wrote:
There are problems of course with 'As fitteds'
1) Cost and the access are biggies!
2) The sheer size of them, you need a large surface e.g. 'pasting table' size to roll them out.
3) Unlike commercial plans whereby usually 1-3 sheets are crammed with info, the 'As fitteds' each have a seperate area of the ship or information on each sheet, making you have to order several sheets which hikes the costs up still further.
4) If it can be avoided I'd advise large scale modellers who wish to use them should only buy around 3 sheets. The side-on profile, the sheet which gives the above deck profiles and the rigging plan sheet. As wr points out sometimes you will need the 'Alterations and Additions' sheets but not all ships have these drawn or sometimes their included on the former sheets.
5) See my previous posts above their accuracy and coverage which again for modellers can cause problems.
Suffice to say they are still the best plans source to work from despite the above problems and combined with photographs make the best source to work from.