[peter noble]

Anybody trying to work out the scale from screen grabs from the show is on a hiding to nothing.

The scales of the landing bay changes to whatever ship is in it and when you consider that the launch rails on the landing bay aren't angled (like the exit ports on the miniature) but straight, then it's all up for err... grabs.

I've just got some MCA TV publicity material off the bookshelf, and it states:

"The battlestar, Galactica, a space ship more than a mile long, with a cruising speed measured in light seconds..."

And:

"As for the Galactica itself, Larson conceived it as "a city in space, ten times larger than the largest aircraft carrier known today..."|