Galactica length question...

[gmd3d]

here is the Galactica By Folkrm,Enterprise By Dennis Bailey
Render By Me.

they are to scale more or less.

[Apolloisall]

Hey! Those are NIIICE!!!

Here's my low-tek answer (small E by my Son):



We seem to be more or less on the same page here, T!!!
6G's it is; so say we all!

[gmd3d]

Yeah , nice work from your Son ..... I could never create a good "low tech" model. just glued or painted my hands

[Apolloisall]

Taranis, those renders are really awesome. Enough to convince anyone of Galactica's true size.

I especially love #5.

[gmd3d]

yeah that´s a good one, both modellers did an outstanding job building each respective model.... in this case Folkrm Galactica is a stunning master piece.

one day I will get to it and reduce the poly count and remove the surfaces that are not needed. one day

[gmd3d]

Just Scored my 4th Basester ,,,

[Apolloisall]

Originally Posted by Taranis

Just Scored my 4th Basester ,,,

Heh heh, congrats. I'm gonna go upstairs & print #5 out on nice paper.

[gmd3d]

Originally Posted by Apolloisall

Heh heh, congrats. I'm gonna go upstairs & print #5 out on nice paper.

Glad you like them

[maudib]

Ouch Taranis, those renders look so good, I'm giving up on my battlestar mesh right now

[gmd3d]

Originally Posted by maudib

Ouch Taranis, those renders look so good, I'm giving up on my battlestar mesh right now

Don´t be daft

yours in a different direction and a great build to watch.

now get back to the salt mines and start working

[gmd3d]

Here are some with other scales with the Enterprise at around 1000 ft ... aprox...

the ones yesterday where wrong, they where around the 4 000 + feet scale.

[gmd3d]

here are the view with the 6080 scale . sorry about the credits .. I fix that soon

[gmd3d]

here some more with other angles and ships. .more or less to scale .....

galactica by folkrm
enterprise a by dennis bailey
enterprise d by prologic 9
viper by folkrm

[gmd3d]

galactica by folkrm
enterprise a by dennis bailey
enterprise d by prologic 9
viper by folkrm

[Benedict]

Those renders to put things in perspective quite well, certainly they look impressive Always imagined the Battlestar's to be huge, enough to wow the Eastern Alliance at the end of Greetings from Earth.
Ships from the fleet must be dots compared to Galactica.

[gmd3d]

Thanks Benedict.

next and the last will be with the Imperial Star destroyer.

was I surprised

[gmd3d]

here is the last set of images I going to do for this.

with the Imperial Star-destroyer.

The ISD is by Fractalsponge

[Benedict]

Lords of Kobol that is something. Makes me think that if an ISD is the same size as the Galactica if a fraction bigger just what the Super Star Destroyer would be. Nice work indeed Taranis.

[gmd3d]

it looks right for me... spot on from all angles from my point of view and I think blows the 2000 ft scale that is excepted as the official one or canon,

we should now make the 6080 ft as THE official view .... I will do one image showing the 2000 ft. just to finish it.

[gmd3d]

this is the scale with the Galactica is only 2000 ft ..

the ship will be to small ... the viper tubes are just larger than the Enterprise torp launch tubs

[maudib]

I don't like the scaling issue. The whole BSG world wasn't intended to make serious sense. I like the 2 mile size better. The launch bay openings are too small for my taste with your 1 mile scale. Still, awesome renders.

[gmd3d]

Originally Posted by maudib

I don't like the scaling issue. The whole BSG world wasn't intended to make serious sense. I like the 2 mile size better. The launch bay openings are too small for my taste with your 1 mile scale. Still, awesome renders.

I agree its not meant to be serious, and about the size of the launch bay or landing bays opening are small and it one of the things that I would change.

but that is something that has been debated for years. I have or had the old annual where the scale is given as 2000 ft. as scale I always disagreed with.

the 2 mile scale sounds great I be happy with that too.

but I think 6080 approx is about right even a little larger.

[Apolloisall]

Taranis, you old war-daggit! You've done much good on this thread!

[gmd3d]

Originally Posted by Apolloisall

Taranis, you old war-daggit! You've done much good on this thread!

thank you ...

[gmd3d]

to any Mod or Admin passing, any chance of having this thread Sticky-ed.

I am planning some more scale images sometime soon.

[gmd3d]

Another scale question ,,,,

how big is the Cylon Basestar compared to the Galactica .

I will post some images soon.

[gmd3d]

here is my estimated scale .about twice the size of the Galactica.

The Base-star is by Raffs

also I have included a viper cut away I liked which I saw on deviantart

[peter noble]

Originally Posted by Taranis

Another scale question,

how big is the Cylon Basestar compared to the Galactica?

Well, the miniature is 3 ft wide, so about half the size of the Galactica.

[gmd3d]

ok how about these ,,, The Base-star is about the scale you mention ..and I also have David Kerins Shuttle in the following images at 110 ft long against the 6080ft Galactica . following in one of the images a 29ft Viper

[Toshiro]

I like those renders. very cool to see the comparison.
I remember the scene in saga of a star world when Adama and Athena were returning from the Atlantia. The shuttle was on approach to land on the port bay. The Image of the shuttle looked tiny. If it was the 110ft long version, then the Galactica would be very big indeed.

Toshiro