Size Comparison of the Klingon Fleet.

While finishing the B10 model, several people wrote me to tell me that it looked too small...or at least pieces of it looked to small (like the bridge module) when compared to other Klingon ships. One person pointed out Captains Log #6 had the dimensions of the B10 and suggested i check it out.

Well, when I built my models I never built them to scale. I created them in generic units of measurement and roughly sized them to what I thought was right. The only exceptions to this practice were the Fed CA and Klingon D7. I built them to the scale drawings of the AMT/ERTL model diagrams. My eyeballing had worked fine in the past because none of my art really had ships appearing side by side. So to make sure that the B10 was a little more accurate, I decided to convert it's scale to meters and scan the drawing in Captains Log #6 to get the proportions right. Surprisingly I was very close. But what surprised me more was what the B10 looked like compared to the D7 and the Fed CA! It was NOT that big!

The B10 is listed in Captains Log #6 as 363 meters long. In the Star Fleet technical manual (and other canon publications) the Fed CA is 289 meters (288.6), the Klingon D7 is 216 meters, and a Klingon G1 (Fast Patrol ship/PF) 35-40 meters according to Module K. I based the size of the C8 on the size of the Federation Dreadnought (320 meters), but now that i think about it, it would probably be a few meters shorter. Probably around 310/205 meters. I had to guess on the size of the F5. The one source file i found that was similar to the B10 reference didn't state any dimensions.

When stacked up side by side, the Klingon B10 is not really that big at all. It looks like a C8 on mild steroids. To make things worse, It looks even smaller when compared to the Excelsior Class Enterprise-B which measures in at 467 meters!

Bummer.