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Ah ha, but Larson and Dykstra are working in the American film industry, and in the US, the "mile" is the US survey mile (5280ft) not the nautical mile used in the US military. I don't think they were thinking of military terminology, just the ordinary civilian use of the word "mile" as used when driving along the freeways in SoCal. Maybe the British fans mistook the term "mile" to mean what they are familiar with in the UK? Just a thought. The difference to me is trivial. Like you said, just scale everything with regards to the vipers and call it a day.

Merlin, my G stands at 11.2 million polys.

Thanks for the kind words Ivanhoejones, yes... modelling this battlestar is an art project for me, so I don't really care about practical uses for it (eg. animating) so I don't limit my poly counts too much, but keep it within reason so I can at least render the thing for still pics. Poly reduction can always be done on it after its complete, and that's where my priorities are with the limited free time I have to work on it.