Looking for blueprints to the ISS solar panel array

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Hello I have a question regarding the ISS (international space station)

For about a year now, I've been using free youtube tutorials to teach myself how to 3D model for free. Just something I'm doing to educate myself.

As sort of an "exercise" I'm 3D modeling an interplanetary cycler ship concept I have. I'm trying to learn how to make more realistic solar panel arrays. So far pics I attached to his post shows what I was able to accomplish by simply using a photo of the ISS I found on NASA's website as reference. But I can do so much better if I could find schematics/blue prints of the ISS's solar panel array.

Does anybody know if there are schematics/blueprints on the internet somewhere that i can study so that i can use them for reference?
Blender screenshot of a 3D model of the ISS with eight gold-tinted solar array wings, four on each side, mounted on a truss, against a dark background showing Earth's limb and a caption reading S130E006575.
Blender 3D viewport showing a grey modelled space station with a cylindrical module and several tall solar panel arrays with gold-tinted reflective cells, set against a dark grey background.
 
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When I did a Google search on part of your thread title blueprints to the ISS solar panel array I got lots of good hits. I don't know if there are any measured drawings in the papers, but have you already tried a similar search?