Re: How big is the Galactica
^^^ That's because nobody knows for an absolute certainty how big any of these ships are. It was a simpler task for the NuBSG crew to come up with sizes, as all their stuff was CG-based and easily scalable (although the scene at the Scorpion Fleet Yards in "Razor" called into question the relative size difference between Columbia- and Mercury-class Battlestars).
In TOS, all the Cylon ships, for example, appear to be bigger than their Colonial equivalents, but aside from a rare head-on shot of a Battlestar going after a Basestar (Living Legend), Larson and Dykstra saying the Galactica is one nautical mile in length, and the size of the 1:1 Viper mockup (which doesn't quite track with the filming miniature's scale based on nose length), we really don't have much of a clue how big these ships are. As with ILM whence it sprang, John Dykstra's VFX house seemed to suffer from a similar lack of scale attention when it came to compositing scenes.
I'm still trying to figure out how they fit the Eastern Alliance Destroyer inside the Galactica's landing bay with that long-ass landing gear it had on it.
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