Starship Dimensions

[phookz]

I've been lurking here for a while, and I haven't seen this posted yet, but this site was on slashdot earlier this month, and it's very cool as a resource for starships.

http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/merzo/

It has starships from almost anything you can think of, in scale. The images could be useful for counters if you like.

Very cool for research - check the links page as well.

[Ben Seeman]

Awesome page.

[Bartman]

It is a gorgeous site. But as a reference it is rather poor. He has his whitestars nearly twice their official size. In fact he has done this for nearly all of the B5 ships. Why do online sites always get B5 sizes wrong?

[Old Man]

The site looks really pretty.

About the B5 thing. The reason for all the miscalculation on ship sizes is because the CGI were not consistant from season to season. Heck in LoR they had Nials fly backwards. *shrug*

[Bartman]

Well all science fiction seems to have scaling issues from time to time. Klingon Bird of Prey anyone? And B5 certainly had at least it's fair share. But come on, nearly 500m for a Whitestar? The whole point of the thing is how small and agile it is. For some reason a lot of the fan sites seem to try to make B5 seem as big as possible. They go out of their way to ignore the fact that official publications put the Whitestar at 275m. And I've never understood this. I want to know what the ships were supposed to be, not what some fans wanted it to be.