Ship Scaling Sprites

[Merlin1701]

gosh, I really wish we could just come to a point where we agree with a size for every ship. Will everyone please remember that the ships in the show are never scaled correctly.

TPTB changed the size of the ships all the time to enfore the feeling of power, ie the asgard ship was scaled right back to make the Ori vessels look even more powerful. The 304 was scaled back to look very small against the LA ha'tak...

[lordofseas]

gosh, I really wish we could just come to a point where we agree with a size for every ship. Will everyone please remember that the ships in the show are never scaled correctly.

TPTB changed the size of the ships all the time to enfore the feeling of power, ie the asgard ship was scaled right back to make the Ori vessels look even more powerful. The 304 was scaled back to look very small against the LA ha'tak...

This one was painfully obvious.

[Mister Oragahn]

From SB.com

Decided to add this to the thread.

An Ancient (ex An Anicient)'s sizes are all screwed up. They are not reliable in the slightest.
The scales of things in "Thor's Chariot" aren't that great. His identification of the landing pads as ships is erroneous and led to many other problems, and he refused to acknowledge the fact that Ra's ship landed only on a portion of the stone pyramid.

Asgard ships sizes vary greatly, but they were fairly consistent from "Small Victories" to "Nemesis", "Prometheus" and "Unnatural Selection". In "Small Victories", an O'neill didn't actually look particularly longer than a Biliskner. I'd really like to see the evidence that warrants such a longer sprite for the O'neill, please.

I did a very detailed scaling of a Biliskner in "Enemies", and it ended with the vertical fins being absurdly tall, like over one kilometer. All that because Teal'c was really a spec against the ship's NIGs.

As for larger Goa'uld motherships, try this instead:

They're rough but give a much better idea of scales, and Ha'taks are generally best appreciated at around 650~700 meters long (it actually depends if your measure the distance between the most distant points from a top down view, or measure the "aft" to "bow" distance).

Another thing here. The Al'kesh sprite is way too big on the chart. It needs to be scaled down.

My I also ask where we could get each top view of those ships' sprites at a high def quality separately?

[Saquist]

What is really needed is a massive project to scale every scene or image of every ship to find the most common scaling in stargate and the most logical scaling of each ...and every...ship...in the series.

[Michael Jansky]

Tell me about it. But who's gonna do it? What with the mess the scales are in all over the franchise. It's impossible to find a common scaling, you can only find the one that conflicts the least.

[Saquist]

Exactly....
But people are a little consumed with proving their perspective....the war goes on.

[seth100123]

ha what game are ye talking about im new to this

[Mister Oragahn]

One reason I really have mixed feelings about wikias is that an error can quickly spread, as some people would be tempted to use what's said on such websites after taking it as gospel, or close.

Recently, I found the article about the Death Glider.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Glider

It claims:

Length : 27.99 meters
Width : 45.9 meters
Height/depth : 14.76 meters

The source? Something that's listed, but not even visible.
"Stargate SG-1: Goa'uld Death Glider Collector Scale Replica"

And looking at the number of footnotes, it seems that a lot of the figures come from this toy's package or so.

If it's not obvious that the sizes are ridiculously wrong for starters...
I wouldn't be surprised if the idiot mistook centimeters for meters.

[lordofseas]

One reason I really have mixed feelings about wikias is that an error can quickly spread, as some people would be tempted to use what's said on such websites after taking it as gospel, or close.

Recently, I found the article about the Death Glider.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Glider

It claims:

Length : 27.99 meters
Width : 45.9 meters
Height/depth : 14.76 meters

The source? Something that's listed, but not even visible.
"Stargate SG-1: Goa'uld Death Glider Collector Scale Replica"

And looking at the number of footnotes, it seems that a lot of the figures come from this toy's package or so.

If it's not obvious that the sizes are ridiculously wrong for starters...
I wouldn't be surprised if the idiot mistook centimeters for meters.

That could be right...

...if Jack O'Neill was 15 metres tall.

[P-90_177]

One reason I really have mixed feelings about wikias is that an error can quickly spread, as some people would be tempted to use what's said on such websites after taking it as gospel, or close.

Recently, I found the article about the Death Glider.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Death_Glider

It claims:

Length : 27.99 meters
Width : 45.9 meters
Height/depth : 14.76 meters

The source? Something that's listed, but not even visible.
"Stargate SG-1: Goa'uld Death Glider Collector Scale Replica"

And looking at the number of footnotes, it seems that a lot of the figures come from this toy's package or so.

If it's not obvious that the sizes are ridiculously wrong for starters...
I wouldn't be surprised if the idiot mistook centimeters for meters.

Actually that could potentially refer to the death glider seen in children of the gods. The one which had a ring transporter onboard then convertend to a death glider mode.

[Mister Oragahn]

That DG (retconned in the new edition of CotG) wasn't even that big. Not to say that the values are given to the random DG on the wikia page.

[kirmit]

I wish we'd of gotten a destiny sprite here.

[Mister Oragahn]

I wish Battara would dramatically clean up the original post because it's full of errors and evidence that is not acceptable (seriously, has anyone heard of the word "perspective" by chance?), and the chart has serious problems regarding the Al'kesh.
As for the Ori crusader, where is that size gotten from? When did we "decide" that the scales were good enough/not screwed too much? "Ark of Truth" perhaps?
304: 450 m.
Sorry for insisting, but it's confirmed several times and even scaled properly against a 11 km long hiveship.
And please, people, the DVDs are often full of BS, it's a fortune when the info is in phase with the show.

[Coco Pops]

How big then was Ra's ship in the movie?

Oh and did the bottom open up to sit on the pyramid?

[Stitch]

How big then was Ra's ship in the movie?

Oh and did the bottom open up to sit on the pyramid?

This should help you get perspective...
http://www.expono.com/go/photo/585432_l.jpg

Yes, it did...