How large is the Red Dwarf?

[The Castellan]

Like the title says.

I want to make some CG pictures. It's hard to tell from the shots of the model as it is in space, and my only clue is from the first 2 seasons when we see a closer shot with a lit up window. Assuming all the windows are the same size as the one in Lister's and Rimmer's room, they are about a meter tall. I am only guessing, but it looks like the Red Dward could be the same length as a Romulan Warbird, though much taller.

I ask since I tried a CGI shot earlier, but the Dwarf seems either too small, or the Oberth too big. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/Primacron/Encounter.jpg

Would be a cool mental exercise here.

It would be cool if there was some size comparison charts or pictures.

 

[JoeD80]

Red Dwarf is supposed to be a few miles long/wide/tall. It's huge.

 

[Faldor]

It is 6 miles (10 km) long, 4 miles (6.5 km) tall, and 3 miles (5 km) wide

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

 

[The Castellan]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

The original, not the crappy one that came later.

 

[Kelso]

Really big.

 

[Sindatur]

Heh, all I can say, is I was kinda relieved to find out this wasn't a Guy Gardner Thread, with a title and opening post like that

Yea, I agree, really big.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

The original, not the crappy one that came later.

Didn't the nanobots rebuild RD to the same actual size, just some of the innards were different? I'm not aware of the actual dimensions of the ship itself changing.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

The original, not the crappy one that came later.

Didn't the nanobots rebuild RD to the same actual size, just some of the innards were different? I'm not aware of the actual dimensions of the ship itself changing.

The effects work changed, and they explained it away in by saying they'd rebuilt it to the original specifications before the budget had been cut.

 

[Sean_McCormick]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

From the proportions alone, i would guess, those figures represent the original version.

The rebuild wersion was longer in relation to height and width - my guess is they implemented the budget cuts by shortening the design.

Castellan, the model i've seen in your thraed seems to be the rebuild version.

 

[ColeMercury]

Depends on the medium. In the TV show, the (original) Red Dwarf is repeatedly described as five miles long. And in cross-section it's a regular hexagon.

But the novels give dimensions of six miles long, four miles deep, three miles wide. Which doesn't fit with a regular-hexagon cross-section shape.

And then the TV show's rebuilt version is much much longer than the original (like, at least twice as long), although it's hard to tell if it has changed in width/depth.

 

[The Castellan]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

From the proportions alone, i would guess, those figures represent the original version.

The rebuild wersion was longer in relation to height and width - my guess is they implemented the budget cuts by shortening the design.

Castellan, the model i've seen in your thraed seems to be the rebuild version.

Looks more like the original model, I though.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'd agree that it looks more like the new model rather than the old model.

 

[Pingfah]

I seriously doubt they ever gave any real thought to the official dimensions beyond just blurting out whatever sounded good at the time, and if they did they would have just contradicted it a few episodes later.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I seriously doubt they ever gave any real thought to the official dimensions beyond just blurting out whatever sounded good at the time, and if they did they would have just contradicted it a few episodes later.

Big, unwieldy and with a teabag on the bottom.

 

[nvek86]

"Red Dwarf" is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to "Red Dwarf".

 

[Dukhat]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

The original, not the crappy one that came later.

There's actually three versions of the ship: The original one, the CGI nanobot-remake, and the ship that appeared in "Back to Earth"...all three are distinctly different.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The "original" or the nano-rebuild version?

The original, not the crappy one that came later.

There's actually three versions of the ship: The original one, the CGI nanobot-remake, and the ship that appeared in "Back to Earth"...all three are distinctly different.

Wasn't the BTE version closer, proportionately, to the original? I can't look right now.

 

[The Castellan]

I seriously doubt they ever gave any real thought to the official dimensions beyond just blurting out whatever sounded good at the time, and if they did they would have just contradicted it a few episodes later.

Big, unwieldy and with a teabag on the bottom.

You just describe my aunt to a tee.

 

[The Castellan]

The original, not the crappy one that came later.

There's actually three versions of the ship: The original one, the CGI nanobot-remake, and the ship that appeared in "Back to Earth"...all three are distinctly different.

Wasn't the BTE version closer, proportionately, to the original? I can't look right now.

Probably.