Here is a list of Sites to which I owe credit, or which I simply find superlative.
MULTI-GENRE SCIENCE FICTION
Starship
Schematic Database
Jim Stevenson's AMAZING Starship Schematic Database; "...dedicated to the sole purpose of archiving every single starship design ever conceived in the Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and Space Battleship Yamato (A.K.A. Star Blazers) Universes, both official and unofficial, interesting and mediocre." A must-see resource for any SCIFI fan!
Starship
Modeler
Excellent reference resource for scifi scale and 3D modelers
Wolf's Shipyard
A great 2-D ship drawing site, I have referred here for many B5 ships, as well as many of
the Star Wars fighters
BABYLON 5
http://www.babtech-onthe.net/
Excellent in-depth discussion of the technical details of
the Babylon 5 genre. I am in the process of reviewing their site and will be making
changes to my charts based on some of their conclusions.
Babylon 5
Technical Manual
Great technical link for Babylon 5, most of my B5 ship sizes came from here with the
exceptions described above.
The
Hangarp (link dead)
Check out the Archives section, some good B5 charts there.
EON
Graphics
Check out the Archives section, Great 5 view shots of 3D CG Models.
ROBOTECH/MACROSS
http://www.robotech.com/
The Official Headquarters of the Robotech Universe!
UN
Spacy Database by Daniel Henwood
The best Macross RPG site out there, very complete in terms of general Macross information
as well RPG stats.
http://www.macrossworld.com/
A great source for all things Macross, based more on merchandise produced from the shows.
STAR TREK
www.ex-astris-scientia.org/
Bernd Schneider's excellent Star Trek Site. Many Thanks to Bernd for allowing me to
pillage the fleet charts off of his site. Please click here to see the
originals.
Neutral Zone Starship Database (Updated link)
Best source for great full color Star Trek schematics and starship stats
STAR WARS
STAR
WARS Technical Commentaries
Phenominally in-depth research into the Star Wars universe
Official
STAR WARS Website
Very thorough and well designed, but visit the Technical Commentaries above for more
accurate sizes
OTHER
http://www.skyscraperpage.com/
I highly recommend any scale enthusiast to check this page out, they have skyscrapers and
other buildings drawn to scale from all over the world!!! I borrowed several
buildings from this page for my 1 meter per pixel page, as well as King Kong, and the Stay
Puft Marshmallow man.
ScifiSource.com - Your source for science fiction on the net!
REVIEWS OF THIS SITE
(and other nice people who were willing to spread the joy...)
slashdot.org
"It looks like someone has very lovingly created something that sci-fi fans everywhere will likely want to see; if not out of curiosity, then at least to revitalize the burning, seething, grudges between fanatics of rival science-fiction universes...."
(When slashdot ran this small article about Starship Dimensions back in April, the responding traffic toasted my router, and caused several iterations of this site to be created until finally I could settle down here at merzo.net - JR)
TechTV
Featured on 'Site of the Nite' (And apparently now I'm officially Commander Jeff Russell - JR)
Yahoo! Picks - May 13, 2003
(Nice little article, generated HUGE traffic - JR)
mozcom.net (link dead)
"Science-fiction fans will love this site. Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions has managed to compare the sizes of different spacecraft featured in popular film & TV series like Star Wars, Star Trek and others, using detailed illustrations to scale, along with some contemporary objects and actual landmarks. Internet Explorer users will find that they can even drag the ships across the browser window and place them side to side for the ultimate in measurement comparison."
Ex Astris Scientia
"This is one of the coolest websites for all starship buffs..."
Star Ranger's Starship Combat News
"This website is back and better than ever..."
buhc@n: For Boys Everywhere (link dead)
"Size does matter and for years debate has raged over who has the biggest starship. Well now the questions have been answered by Jeff Russell and his Starship Dimensions. As one person has suggested this is the type of site that the Internet was built for. Returning to the movies from which the ships and creatures came will add a whole new dimension."
Subtraction: Size Matters (link dead)
"Starship Dimensions is a phenomenal piece of work and a staggeringly detailed attempt to apply metrics to imagination."
Quadrant 99
"This has to be one of the coolest sites ever...Definite geek site !"
Wild Webster
"Quite possibly one of the coolest sites on the net. If you're a fan of Star Trek, Star Wars or any of the sci-fi/space opera movies and TV shows, you HAVE to check this out."
SZILAGYI.US
"...Go the Starship Dimensions site and revel in your inner nerd..."
lucas.is-a-geek.net
"Neat, if useless, site." (wow, be still my beating heart. - JR)
The Alien Online (link dead)
"...The essential guide for starship spotters everywhere..."
Force of Mouth
"Ingenious to-scale comparisons of all your favorite spaceships." (In the 'Frickin Cool' section - JR)
Corriere Della Fantascienza
"Sito per appassionati di astronavi di tutte le serie di fantascienza. Design eccellente.
Tra i pił originali." (Italian is a beautiful language. Enjoy!) - JR)
The Gigantic Collection of Star Trek Minutiae
"The renowned collection of official and fan-designed starships."
lorbus
"Excellent." (lorbus is a very interesting site, check it out - JR)
zonageek.com
(This might be a bad review, I can't speak portugese)
Sirocco (link dead)
(Not sure what wthis one's saying either)
ATOMIC ROCKETS - ADVANCED SPACECRAFT DESIGN
(A cool site with some starship scales in addition to the link to Starship Dimensions - JR)
Elder Sign - Andy's Web Site
(Just a link to this site, but it has a cool Cthulhu thing going on - JR)
www.livejournal.com
"...very, very cool."
Kev's Useless Bollocks
"The site has some excellent to-scale illustrations of everyone's favorite starships - it's really quite cool actually."
orbitalworks (link dead)
"nice site if you're a starship fan."
Sore Eyes
"Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions is quite wonderful. If you've ever wondered whether the Babylon 5 station was bigger than Deep Space Nine, or how a Super Star Destroyer measures up to the Lexx, this is the site for you. Beautifully illustrated, nicely designed and very obviously the product of a true geek. My hat's off to you, Sir!"
McGee's Musings - "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker
"Starship Dimensions is one of the wonderful places that only the web can make possible."
WINDSOFCHANGE.NET
"Good-looking pictures, to scale, against a sizing grid, of nearly every starship you remember from major sci-fi series... and quite a few you probably don't. Someone out there has wayyy too much time on their hands."
(I had lots of time on my hands after I gave up eating and sleeping - JR)
Roberts Blog
"this site rocks"
brendoman.com
"Nerd site of the Day"
kcgeek - "Teeth-clenching, two-fisted geekery, from Kansas City to your doorstep in one easy click." (link dead)
"If you are a SciFi freak like me, you'll love this."
Hypermind (link dead)
COPYBLOG
"The images are astounding"
grok(foo) - "a little bit of everything & a whole lot of nothin' "
"This is awesome. Probaby one of the coolest things I've seen in a while."
Solonor's Groovy Grove of Mystical Wonders
"Oh. My. Can hardly type. Having a geek-a-rama seizure. OOOH! I just found out you can drag them around like paper dolls. Sweeeet."
In memory of the great Charles Sheffield. This is a Zardalu, scourge of the universe. Read the Heritage Universe if you like SciFi Scale!