[BFG] Model scale in BGF

[timdp]

Hmmm, it helps if you actually measure the cruiser in question instead of assuming that its 3" long. Doh!
Please disregard silly original post...

OK, lets try this again. Imperial cruiser is 3.5" long and 3km long in the chart (link at bottom of page).

1" = .86 km = 1:33858

1mm = 33858mm  (33.86 meters)
1cm = 338580mm (or 338.6 meters)
1/16" = 1.6mm =54.176mm (or 54.176 meters)

Imperial launch bay ports are 2mm x 3mm, so are 68 x 100 meters.

Moving on to the "new" scale...
In the FFG Rogue Trader books an Imperial cruiser is roughly 5km long.

1" = 1.4285714 km = 1:56243
.70" = 1km

1mm = 56243mm  (56.243 meters)
1cm = 562430mm (or 562.43 meters)
1/16" = 1.6mm =89989mm (or 90 meters)

In this scale Imperial launch bay ports are 2mm x 3mm, so are 112 x 170 meters

http://the-first-magelord.deviantart.com/art/Battlefleet-Gothic-Scale-Chart-82219217

[Blindhorizon]

Tell me more.

[Islacrusez]

I've come to more of a 1mm=50m

[Malika]

Didn't BFG have different scales for different models? I mean the battleships (the really big ones) are still rather small compared to the escorts and cruisers. And then the fighters look huge compared to the ship. Then don't get me started about the space stations, orbital cities, Ramilles Fortresses and planets...

[timdp]

Didn't BFG have different scales for different models? I mean the battleships (the really big ones) are still rather small compared to the escorts and cruisers. And then the fighters look huge compared to the ship. Then don't get me started about the space stations, orbital cities, Ramilles Fortresses and planets...

The fighters and bombers are stated to be a different scale so they can be seen, and planets are described as a completely different scale,  but I have never seen anything says that the ships are in different scales from each other.

Now that we have some actual scales (take your choice of original 1:33858 or retcon 1:56243) you can figure out the real life dimensions of space stations, orbital cities, Ramilles Fortresses, etc. and make bigger versions if you feel the need.

As a general note scale in BFG is far more nebulous than scale in 40K with the ships being the only things making any attempt to be in scale with each other. Everything else is pretty random.

[Jimmy Zimms]

I prefer true-scale and require everyone playing to use electron microscopes to play