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Dirk Loechel, a visual artist from Germany, loves spaceships. So much so, that he created a beautiful scale chart of hundreds of spacecraft from many of the most popular science fiction IPs, including Warhammer 40k, Star Trek, Gundam, Final Fantasy, and even Spaceballs. If you’ve got a favourite ship, it’s probably in there!
The scale of the chart hit me when I spent five minutes looking for the Enterprise D, expecting it to be among the middle-ish of the pack in size. I had to squint to find it. Loechel’s chart uses a pixel:metre scale of 1:10, making the chart itself 57km tall and 43km wide. That’s a lot of spaceship.
(Full chart after the jump.)
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“But my favourite isn’t on there?” you’re scream. Well, Loechel admitted that he had to draw the line somewhere. “For reasons of image quality and chart organisation, only ships between a minimum of 100 meters and 24000 meters are applicable for this chart, sorry,” he said. And then there’s the TARDIS, which Loechel explains is a special case, “It’s both too large and too small for the chart.”
The full resolution chart (4268 × 5690) can be found on Loechel’s DeviantArt. Just be prepared to set aside a few hours to get lost among the stars. It’s a truly amazing accomplishment.