As this has now been given its own thread its probably best that i place my reply to your scaling in here:
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
You also have the scaling of the Tantive IV in comparison to the Stardestroyer wrong also. Here's a pic from ANH that demonstrates this:
Now looking at your scaling that i used for image #3 you have the Tantive IV almost as long as the Stardestroyer bay. Well in this shot it isnt even fully inside the bay, as can be clearly seen, yet isn't already a lot smaller in its length than you have it.
I'd like to know what reference you are using for the size of the Stardestroyers and the Tantive IV, especially when you have said that i'm wrong in my scaling even though i have clearly proved the correct scaling of the ships in conjunction to the stardestroyer. Yes, i agree that the Lambda class shuttle is about 20m long, but are using an online /published reference of the size of the stardestroyer to get your scaling of the shuttle because i would suggest not to take the scaling in the reference books as gospel because many are very wrong. Also using the scale of a human against a ship in a hnagar shot etc to get the correct scale is also not entrely an accurate way to do it. Just look at the scaling problem of the on-set Millennium Falcon in ESB. It's probably around 25% smaler than it should be. And check out this shot of the hangar in ROTJ
Just look how tiny the Millennium Falcon is compared to the people in that matte painting. It should be hell of a lot bigger. It's even smaller than the studio set one in ESB
