adywan said:
OK, i have to put the debate about scales to rest now. Forget about the so called sizes of ships that are documented because many are just so wrong. The scale of the Lambda shuttle in the ROTJ opening , which seems to be the basis of the scale, is wrong. See the pics below:
1:- taken from the pic you posted, savmagoett, of the scale between a human and the shuttle. Now the interior of the bridge and its windows is the same size for the Executor as it is for the stadestroyers. But in the models they only added the correct domed outside of the bridge to the executor. There is one stardestroyer model that has the domed bridge but the scale for that would have made the stardestroyers bridges almost 3x the size of the Executors one. Now the Towers of the stardestroyers and the Executor are exactly the same size so we can use the Executor tower with the domed bridge for the comparison. As you can see the scale of the human is the correct scale with the bridge.
2:- Now zoomed out so we can see the full tower, which you can see the scale of the shuttle in comparison to the tower.
3:- Full zoom out. The highest points of the zoomed tower perfectly matching the highest points in the full model, which is the centre point of the stardestroyer so the scale is correct. Copied and pasted the shuttle from the zoomed section and placed it next to your shuttles scaling.
4:- the scaling zoomed in. As you can see the correct scale of the shuttle in comparison with the stardestroyer should be a lot smaller than your calculations. So the shuttle in ESB:R will be the correct smaller scale which will fit inside the stardestroyers docking bay
I hope this has now put a rest to the great scaling debate ;)
Well, I still have some cards in my game…
At least I'm pleased you're apparently agreeing about the 20 m length Tydirium shuttle :)
I'm aware of that analysis, and I have arguments about that, I was about to come to that later.
But for the rest of your tread I moved the subject and created my own topic here:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Discussing-about-scales-in-star-wars/topic/10969/
Feel free to go there and give your feeling as I make my case :)