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PaulReiche
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Here's my diagram on Star Control ship relative scale, created in 1992 on my dot matrix printer. 25 years later, I think I didn't get much right except perhaps for the relative scale of the Flagship and the Chevy Suburban.
For what it's worth, last night spent some time looking at George Barr's painting of the Flagship being prepared for lift-off from Unzervalt. Ultimately I decided it was about 275 meters long. The original Enterprise is just a hair larger.
Looking at the large image of the Shofixti Scout from Star Control 1, I'd estimate it is no more than 7 meters long, so those other 5 Shofixti must be packed in there like sardines. For comparison, a Colonial Viper Mark 2 from Battlestar Galactica is estimated to be a little over 8 meters long.
I appreciate the scale estimate from the in-game bitmaps, but the relative scale in combat was intentionally compressed to make the experience more fun.
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Speaking of George Barr's paintings - are they the images you've been showing us in your blog posts? Because they are of much higher resolution than the in-game pictures, yet much truer to the original than the UQM HD graphics.
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PaulReiche
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Yes, those are higher-res scans of the original artwork. I am sure I've said this before, but George is a fantastic illustrator and painter, whose book covers have inspired my imagination since the mid 1970s.
I am in the process of rescanning the originals at MUCH higher quality, which made me remember that there were little tweaks I did to some of the images in DPaint, mostly to deal with the artifacts of low resolution and only 256 colors.
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