Topic: About how big is a remora?

[starforce2]

just curious. (er, that would be the standard remora...not the other 8 or so..lol)

[Rogue NineCH]

According to FASA specs, the Remora is 210m long, 170m wide and 60m high.  Since FASA ships tend to be different from SFC ships, i.e. the NorthHampton Frigate was comparable to a light cruiser, and the Remora is an escort, I would say she is like a destroyer.

By the way did you like the other 8?

[Klingon Fanatic]

There are 10 Remora's out there. Two are for SFC1 and one of those is a retexture by John Stone.

I myself prefer the 100m version I did in the SFC Frigate role.

Qapla!

KF

[starforce2]

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By the way did you like the other 8?  

I haven't had the chacne to really take a detailed look at them. I just need the standard remora as a sizing base for when I convert the whole lot of them to bridge commander. I assume they all use similar components, such as equil sized nacelles, so once I scale one, I'll measure a common part, and size the rest. I used the same method with mackie kitbashes by measuing excelcior, connie and miranda saucers once scaled to their canon length.

[atheorhaven]

If you want, just hang on a little bit.. I'm helping Nanner resize his mod, and am rescaling all of them via Max units.  That's turning out some interesting missizes, even in the Taldren models.

Or better yet, I'll give you the unit formula I'm using and some examples..
Ship Length * 0.041967289719626168224299065420561 = Max units

So for the Galaxy at 642 metres..

642 * 0.041967289719626168224299065420561 =  26.943 Max Units

So if you click on the Measure tab while you're scaling, you can size everything by Max units, consistently across all the various types that you have, and consistent with a source like Ex Astris Scientia (where I've been getting the various ship lengths).  Then it's just sizing the standard ship types to that formula (like Connie, Excelsior, Galaxy, Soverign) for each era, and you'll have a properly scaled baseline to scale any variants and kitbashes by.  Like if you know Mackie's Davids uses TOS Connie components, you can bring that in with a properly scaled TOS Connie (at 295 or so metres) and match the saucers or other components for size.  Then you should get a pretty closely scaled non-canon ship.  And you should be able to do the same for the Remora.

(By the way, I got this number '0.041967289719626168224299065420561' by dividing the Max Unit size [in this case 26.943] of the stock Taldren SFC 3 Galaxy against the stated length of the ship at Ex Astris Scientia (642 metres).  That gave me a baseline for Nanner's TNG era mod.  For a TMP era mod, a good idea would be to use the Enterprise or Excelsior as the base, and work from there.

Should also nicely apply to other races.. for Klingons, use the stock K'Tinga or Negh'Var depending on era, for Rommies use the D'Deridex Warbird.  That kind of idea.  

Haven't gotten as far as that with Nanner's scaling project yet though simply because I've been installing a new HD in my system the last day and moving all my setups onto it one drive at a time.  (That way, I don't lose too much time, and can pick right up where I left off without reinstalling everything and re-customizing things to my liking all over again.)

[starforce2]

I scale everything in meters cuz that's how BC seems to work.

[Heavens_Eagle]

Hmm that is interesting.  the "rule of thumb" used to be 20 meters to 1 Max unit.  I know that is what P81 and quite a number of other folks used for quite a while.  I even did a few ships to that scale.  Seemed to be the most consistent size used in the early days.  

[atheorhaven]

What I'll do is post a screenie later on tonight showing how I'm using it, and using a stock SFC 3 model as a comparison.. I find it's been working well for me so far...