Well, there's my morning shot to hell!

[AimlessWanderer]

..... but despite all these pretty pictures, we still don't know if an Oliphaunt from The Two Towers is tall enough to hump an Imperial AT-AT ...

[kirk13]

..... but despite all these pretty pictures, we still don't know if an Oliphaunt from The Two Towers is tall enough to hump an Imperial AT-AT ...

You are a sick,sick man

[AimlessWanderer]

Just sayin' ...

[WhichDawg]

wow cool Lynn LeFey and COOL! 

tell tell more more!

[Lynn LeFey]

wow cool Lynn LeFey and COOL! 

tell tell more more!

Uhh... I'm a nerd, and a Browncoat, and a fan of the Serenity RPG. I was doing a bunch of fan stuff, and making 3d ship models for the ships in the movie 'Serenity', and posting stats for them on fan boards, and MWP (the company doing the game) hired me to do the 'spaceships' portion of the supplement to the RPG, called 'Six-Shooters and Spaceships'. I had a big chunk of the stuff done already, and was able to write/assemble half of that book in about 2 weeks.

I got to name several ships in the Alliance fleet, and a few Reaver ships, etc. and 'canonize' a few ships I invented whole cloth. And, maybe most cool, all of the players in my game group got their characters published as the crew of one of the ships in the book, the 'CanTankerous'.

Part of the process of building the models was excruciating level of analysis of film evidence. And part of that is trying to establish scale reference. It just so happens that there are very few perfect scale references that can be drawn, but Longbow-to-Firefly, Crete-to-Firefly, and Longbow-to-Victoria can all be done to a pretty high degree of accuracy. His measurements on the Crete are 'close enough' to mine that I wouldn't argue them. The Longbow is off by a fair amount. The Tohoku is DEAD wrong.

Their scales look about like this (rough model of Tohoku, sorry)

[pfrsantos]

Oooh, wonder if I can secretly print this off on the huge plotter here?   

Is it a... 3D plotter?...
 

[Whoey]

wow cool Lynn LeFey and COOL! 

tell tell more more!

Uhh... I'm a nerd, and a Browncoat, and a fan of the Serenity RPG. I was doing a bunch of fan stuff, and making 3d ship models for the ships in the movie 'Serenity', and posting stats for them on fan boards, and MWP (the company doing the game) hired me to do the 'spaceships' portion of the supplement to the RPG, called 'Six-Shooters and Spaceships'. I had a big chunk of the stuff done already, and was able to write/assemble half of that book in about 2 weeks.

I got to name several ships in the Alliance fleet, and a few Reaver ships, etc. and 'canonize' a few ships I invented whole cloth. And, maybe most cool, all of the players in my game group got their characters published as the crew of one of the ships in the book, the 'CanTankerous'.

Part of the process of building the models was excruciating level of analysis of film evidence. And part of that is trying to establish scale reference. It just so happens that there are very few perfect scale references that can be drawn, but Longbow-to-Firefly, Crete-to-Firefly, and Longbow-to-Victoria can all be done to a pretty high degree of accuracy. His measurements on the Crete are 'close enough' to mine that I wouldn't argue them. The Longbow is off by a fair amount. The Tohoku is DEAD wrong.

Their scales look about like this (rough model of Tohoku, sorry)
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That's rather cool. I love space scifi, but there's no way I could retain so many details of so much data!

[Grant Lamontagne]

Is it sad that my inner nerd wants to build scale models of all of these?  To the same scale?

Guess I'm going to need to get a 3d printer now.

Def

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[WhichDawg]

that is very interesting (and so cool) Lynn LeFey! thank you for sharing that

same here Grant, only not scale! lol

[Whoey]

the question is, what scale?

[ducttapetech]

..... but despite all these pretty pictures, we still don't know if an Oliphaunt from The Two Towers is tall enough to hump an Imperial AT-AT ...

[Grant Lamontagne]

the question is, what scale?

If one had a big enough room to house them all, I'd probably go 1/100 or 1/500 scale.  1/1000 would be far too small for many of the smaller ships.

Def

[Lynn LeFey]

The issue of what scale to build to, and maybe more important, where to keep them when completed, are both reasons I prefer digital modeling.

It also seems that my real-world models get broken every time I move. I had a set of Enterprise models, the original, A, B, and D, all in the same scale, that got busted all to crap in one move. Warp Naucelles everywhere! 

[Grant Lamontagne]

As a lifelong modeller I had the same problems Lynn- I feel your pain.

I always thought I'd love to have an office/warehouse kind of thing like the Mythbusters' M5.  A place where I can work and hang things like giant scale model Star Destroyers.

If that ever happens I'd be sure and contact a moving company at least once for an estimate, just to see the look on their faces when they walk in and need to safely pack and move a few Enterprises (Enterprii?), a Borg Cube, a couple of Death Stars, a Zentradii battleship, a Shadow Ship and a Cylon Base Star. 

Def

[Whoey]

I haven't built a model for many years, but as a teen I had loads of them, mostly military aircraft and some cars... I split with my step brother on a 1/72 b-52 kit... man that thing was HUGE once we got it all together.

Many of mine did not survive various moves either, in fact I believe my mom still has a box of my stuff that has various bits of A10 warthog floating around in it...

The largest kit scale wise I had was a 1/8th scale 65 corvette stingray.

All I have left now is a couple incomplete 1/24th scale Plymouth Cudas and a Mystery Machine.

Models would only add to my current storage problem caused by my Boba Fettish... 

[WhichDawg]

I still have (in storage in box) a Jupiter II kit, Green Hornets Black Beauty, Aliens Narcissus, and a 70's vacu-form and resin  War of the Worlds original manta ship (needs lots of work) that one day I will get too! ... dream