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Kizarvexis
18-December-2004, 04:48 PM
Jeff Russel has updated his Starship Dimension's page with new TV shows and a pic of Spaceship 1 as well.

Basically Jeff has collected side views of various Sci-Fi ships from TV and movies and compiled them all on to one site with RL objects for size comparison. The ships are divided among 6 pages with the following pixel per meter ratio.

10x = 10 pixels per meter (has a 747, Spaceship 1, VW and Jeff for real world reference)

1x = each pixel is a meter (has 747, Hindenburg, B2, F117, Yamato BB, and various building for reference)

-2x = is also 1 pixel per meter, but with a smaller grid pattern to fit larger ships

-10x = each pixel is 10 meters (has the RL objects from the 1x page for reference)

-100x = each pixel is 100 meters (Phobos is provided as a reference)

-2000x = each pixel is 2000 meters (Phobos and the Moon provided as a reference)


The only nit I have is that the Whitestar from Babylon 5 should really be ~268 meters long when it is compared to an Omega destroyer.


http://www.merzo.net/index.html

Have fun.

Kizarvexis

Gullible Jones
19-December-2004, 11:53 PM
The Star Trek shuttles are shown more streamlined than they are on the show. The actual props (or is everything CGI these days?) have a decidedly chunky appearence, and probably would not fair well in atmosphere.

Richard of Chelmsford
20-December-2004, 12:01 AM
One real spaceship I never saw a picture of was the one that the Chinese taikonaut chappie flew in last year.

I had a feeling it was rather cribbed from the old Soyuz design but I could be wrong.

Anyone gotta link?

publiusr
03-March-2005, 08:02 PM
That is a nice site.

www.hobbyspace.com
www.k26.com/buran
www.buran.ru