Galactica Landing bays TOS
 

The landing bay, Internal layout what do you think.
Tha landing bay is based on Westys autocad design, from the launch tubes the outer shell is all his. the internal areas with vipers and shuttles etc is what I think it should be like. the scales expressed are westys and mine for a ship a mile long.


what do you think???

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...rbay001mk6.jpg




Edit: Removed extra IMG tags
BST

COOL! I like it. :thumbsup:

Jim :salute:

thats alotta work! nice job!!

Way cool. I happen to like that scale, and love the layout.

I have a question and two observations.

So the launch deck is on level 3, while the landing deck is on level 2?

Observations: 1) If the launch deck is on level 3, why not extend the length of the tubes, and make the bay on the inside of the pods as opposed to the outside. This keeps more with the amount of time we see Vipers in the tubes during launch (not by much, but some). 2) Primary fuel and prep is probably done in bays beside the tubes, and some form of conveyer moves those Vipers into line with the tubes. This is seen in the backdrop to the launch bay set.

Overall, it rocks.

JJR :salute:

I really like it. I've been looking at it more closely, and like a number of features you have included. One of the most valuable things you've done here is set the scale, which to me was always a sticky point.

Really very cool...

JJR

Looks good! :thumbsup: :D

Taranis,

Your work is first rate, absolutely first rate. I like the way you laid it out and scaled it.

I tried to do something similar a couple of years ago but lacked the tools. Paint is the best I had then. You might check out a web site I started to construct back then. I’ve kept it hoping I would have the time to go back and finish it some day.

http://www.starcmd.com/BSG/index.html

At some point I would like to feature your work on my site, I also think you should add it to the gallery here, this is the sort of thing we need.

No problem... but as i said Its also Westys...
I use paint too , Then I got Turbocad (its like Autocad) but I never used it properly
I think that the launch bays are a open book for some designs and while I like mine I think it can be improved alot. but westy is very busy these day and a hard man to catch...
westy did so great mesurments, I will try to find them and post them here?

I like your version and it has its possibilitys, :thumbsup:

The folks who built the model said they used 1/960 scale, that is about as close to cannon as you can get, short of building the real thing! I used 6080 feet for my calcs.

that would be cool, I will be doing more on the internal working on the BSG in the next few weeks...how do I add it to the Gallery???

Thats the scale i think it is..

On the topic of the Galactica's size, I thought I'd share the most comprehensive study I've seen done on this topic. It's very interesting if you're in to this sort of thing.

The article is here:
http://www.merzo.net/

but the site does not allow me to link directly to the article. so there are steps.
Go there, click on the 2X scale option,
find the Galactica and click the link beneath it....
:)

It is interesting that Glen Larson (Producer) and John Dykstra (VFX supervisor and designer of the Model) both say it is a mile long. Others, not from the production staff say differently.

Personly I think that...if Larson and Dykstra say it a mile long...it should be viewed
as canon..It's a mile long.....


Fragmentary:: Thats a cool site...But I disagree with the scale of 610m, and I think many fans think the same thing..if it was 610m it would be shorter than the USS ENTERPRISE galaxy class by 20m???

An intresting findedhttp://ravensbranch.allen.com/galacticasize.html:
MY PROBLEM with that is .. if the shuttle is supposed to be 110 ft long it won't fit into the landing bays??

:colonial: If the shuttle is 110ft long ...how tall would it be???? anyone care to work it out??

I can't find a good profile shot of the shuttle.
However, I'd hazard the guess that it is less than 50' high.

Using the 6080' measure for Galactica, and the schematic as shipschematics.net, I get the height of the landing bay opening at around 280 feet wide and 90 feet high.

While it would fit, the shuttle would not have nearly as much room as it does when shown landing. And the Viper would have much more.

I tend to argree spyone :thumbsup: anyone like to speculate a revised height for the shuttle or the bay ? :D

Very little attention was paid to the interior scale of the Galactica. For the interior of the landing bay, many background immages were mat paintings. These were not done to any scale but simply to what looked good.

Some fans have tried using the interior images to estmate the Galacticas size.

I'm late coming to this thread, but I'm getting ready to tackle the subject again, so I'll post what I find here.

Something else I've been skulling over:

The aft set of launch tubes are too far back to be as long as the ones in front (if the forward ones are more than a few viper-lenghs long). Here what I'm thinking. The forward three sets are for getting the squadrons launched from the maintenance and launch bay. They provide additional acceleration through some mechanism (magnetic or gravitic acceleration?) to get the fighters out at a higher relative velocity than they could achieve with turbos alone. Otherwise, why have the long launch tubes at all?

But the back tubes are different. These are rapid reload launch tubes. Pilots who need to refuel or re-arm in a hotly contested area might not want to take the time to take his ship all the way in, and have it moved into position to launch in the traditional way. Instead, they land, and taxi directly into one of these tubes, where they are quickly refueled and rearmed while they remain in the cockpit, and then they punch out at full turbo only (no assist). The only reason for the tube at all is to make sure that during combat all craft are launching along roughly the same vector, which eases traffic management.

Just a thought.

--JJR :salute:

That a pretty cool bit o' reasoning there JJR :salute:

Nice thinking as always JJR. and it make a lot of sence to ..I noted in the second comming (I think) the aft launch tubes were moved a little bit forward ..

Nice, I like!

Thanks Zinjo. :thumbsup: I hope to return to this some day and improve on it.. :)

Very interesting indeed. I had always wondered about the relationship between the launch tubes and the landing area. Thanks for sharing.

Link
 

I liked the link to the videos

This is VERY cool indeed. And the scale you've established is right in line with what I'd always imagined.

Thanks for sharing it with us!

-Gordon

Interesting. I once encountered someone who thought the Vipers launched out of the back of the ship. I guess he never saw the launch tubes.

Hey Taranis, I got a question. On your drawing, you have red circles around most of the vipers in the staging area on level 1. My question is, are every one of those red circles an elevator to take the viper up to level 2?