Traveller Size Comparison Chart

[mike wightman]

Very nice - have you thought about putting it in the flibrary?

 

[Scarecrow]

Andrew,

Lovely work!

Here's a thought though, there's no way the Lanthanum Petal and the Broadsword can be the same volume!!

Crow

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Yeah, I think the BS deckplans are too big. Most CT plans seem to be :-(

 

[mike wightman]

Look here for a corrected set, and very nice they are too

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I really wish I'd remembered that when I was building the model :-(

 

[GypsyComet]

Similarly, it looks like you are using the DGP measurements for the Beowulf, which results in 400-ton deckplans...

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Yup, the pic is from SOM. Are *any* official deckplans correct?!

 

[Scarecrow]

Heh! I guess all they needed was some corridors for characters to run around in and shoot each other. They weren't too bothered about "getting it within 20%"
I bet they never imagined anyone would actually calculate it

Crow

 

[GypsyComet]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
Yup, the pic is from SOM. Are *any* official deckplans correct?!

Not for the Beo that I've ever seen, though you can take the DGP plans and treat the grid as 1.0m instead of 1.5m. The plans become the right size, though the external view gets a bit "stunty" looking since it's still three decks high. The same trick works for the Marava...
It should be just slightly taller than a Gazelle, as the CE is 2.5 decks high.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I've used (hopefully) corrected plans for my Marava model, so that should be okay when I add it.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

BTW, given comments on other threads about wet shipping being more closely related to Traveller, could we get a container ship on here? It would need to be a partial, maybe, as I think the thing would dwarf the 747.

Or, perhaps a second bit showing a smaller 747, a container ship, and a Fat Trader?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Sure, if I can find a good model or pic.

I've just added a few more ships, BTW, and jeez, some of those official sizes are WAY off.

 

[far-trader]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
...and jeez, some of those official sizes are WAY off.

To put it mildly

 

[far-trader]

I keep forgetting, nice work Andrew, thanks.

 

[jdegraff]

Huh. The Broadsword is a lot smaller than I thought it was.

Almost ALL Traveller ships are siginificantly smaller when done in 3D with real* volume. Traditional 2D deckplans don't effectively take into account true 3D volume. To get them as accurate as possible, you have to start out with the 3D model of correct volume, slice it, then use *that* outline to generate the line drawings.

*real = in my own case using the volume of a cube of the correct tonnage generated with Andy Akins' FF&Sv2 spreadsheet and comparing it's volume to the volume of a given 3D mesh that I'm working on to match it. Andy Akins & I have double-teamed on some G:T's official deckplans this way, I generated my own Acipiter Class plans with this method. As well, every G:T ship illo I've done that didn't originate from classic or pre-published deckplans was done in this manner.

Best,
Jesse

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Updated, now with crunchy AHL and Tigress goodness

http://www.cix.co.uk/~fubar/Traveller/sizechart/

 

[mike wightman]

Now that puts things into perspective nicely

 

[jappel]

You know, if you moved the smaller ships a bit further down in the last example, it would sure make the Tigress look like PacMan...

- John

 

[jdegraff]

Thought you might like to see some by volume for comparison

Ship Comparison by volume

The Sulie and the AHL I know were done to scale. The simple Tigress I'm 90% sure was done to scale, and the Broadsword about 80% sure (I don't have the areavol plugin here at work, and don't have the time to track it down at the moment )

Jesse

 

[mike wightman]

Ooh, pretty

Can they be scaled to the same size as on Andrew's comparison chart?