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12-05-2007, 04:04 AM
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| SFM Guru  Realname: Andrew Join Date: May 2006 Location: Colorado
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| Okay, this is an extremely rough calculation, but it's the best I can do with the quality of the pictures. The Raptor is approximately 41 pixels in length, and the mouth of the landing bay is roughly 246 pixels in width. This works out to 51.24 meters in width for the forward opening of the flight pod. Since I'm a fan of even numbers, I'm going to round that down to just 51 meters. On one of the dorsal pictures of the Valk herself from "Hero", the flight pod is about 104 pixels in length and the mouth is around 16 pixels wide. This works out to 331 meters. The overall length, 286 pixels, comes out to 912 meters. I hope this helps.  |
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12-05-2007, 06:07 AM
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| As Advertised.   Realname: Tim Goertzen Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: B.C. Canada Age: 22
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| So roughly half the size of pegasus? dosn't sound right. |
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12-05-2007, 06:40 AM
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| Banned  Realname: Justin Dixon Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, California - Winston-Salem, North Carolina Age: 21
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    | quite frankly; at least in my opinion; ya'll are giving these ship's way more size credit than they deserve. Galactica, according to her "windows" on the nose rounded to average window size/height would make the ship far smaller than what alot of people perfer to admit. However, at the same time, the size of the landing bay opening compared to the width of a viper makes that number grow... ehhh... Point is; tv show. doesn't need to match up. |
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12-05-2007, 07:01 AM
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| SFM Obsessed  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On a Battlestar, Doh!
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| I think some are looking for just a ballpark average so we can gauge other ship's sizes, I think....... |
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12-05-2007, 08:13 AM
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| As Advertised. Realname: Tim Goertzen Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: B.C. Canada Age: 22
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| My money is on 1/3 the size of pegasus, going on what we see visually on Razor. |
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12-05-2007, 08:25 AM
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| Banned  Join Date: May 2006
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AFAIK, the original and new Galacticas are supposedly the exact same length - more or less 1265 metres long. And I personally think its vitally important to have consistent scales for a fictional universe - it just makes it, on a subconscious level, feel more "right" for the viewer. And in the field of 3D graphics, there is no longer any excuse for things not matching scale like there used to be in the days of motion control when it was very difficult to integrate shots of differently scaled physical models. | |
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12-05-2007, 09:19 AM
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| SFM Guru  Join Date: May 2006 Age: 35
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| consistent scale can go a long way to suspending disbelief, which after all is what they are trying to do.... |
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