I disagree slightly regarding accuracy. Accuracy, to my understanding, is a measure of the faithfulness of something to adhere to design parameters. For a scale model, that means that everything measures out to proper dimensions compared to reliable data for the item being replicated. Length, width, height, depth, contour, camber, etc., etc. Precision as it relates to model manufacturing and building is the ability to consistently produce the same- hopefully desired- results within a narrow standard of deviation.
I'll go out on the limb here and opine that companies with good quality control (like Eduard, Tamiya, and Aires) tend to produce reasonably accurate items with a high degree of precision. Of course, both the strengths and weaknesses in the product will be precisely recreated with every run for decades.
Certainly, examples of consistent precision and accuracy can be found among the resin industry- but there are those that produce parts that may be accurate, but suffer from lack of precision from run to run. Again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and its the customer/modeler's prerogative to maintain their own standards for accuracy and precision. Some care alot, some don't- each to his own.
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