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I found a Plan review here
http://www.calormen.com/Star_Trek/FAQs/reading-faq.htm#Blueprints
Romulan "Bird of Prey" Blueprints
Michael McMaster, Galactic Designs and Productions, 1977 - 18 x 24 (5 pg.), scale 1/157.5 -- $6.00
I don't know how McMaster derived this ship's size. According to him, the ship's only 68 meters long (223 feet, about half the diameter of the original Enterprise's primary hull, since denied by canon - e.g., the Okudas' and Rick Sternbach's "STAR TREK" ENCYCLOPEDIA). That said, these are the first (and for many years, the only) accurate plans of the original Romulan "warbird." Exterior plans and full deck layouts are featured, as well as many technical notes. The "bird" painting is well represented. I've long intended to modify AMT's abysmal model kit to match this one's lines, a project these plans - coincidentally twice the model's size - would make a breeze. Unfortunately, that kit's long out of production (as are indeed all original series kits, for the present anyway). Nor does the little MicroMachine replica (accurate though it is) satisfy my urge to breech the Neutral Zone. But McMaster set the course, and a well-flown course it was, though too short, alas, by far.
Ex-astris here,
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/romulan_ships.htm
States that the ship is Length: 131m.
But as long as the proportions are good you should be able to scale the plans to any size you want.
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