Blake's 7 Starship Scales

[2046]

Technical information on the British sci-fi series Blake's 7 is virtually non-existent, so far as a few hours' googling can determine.

However, I've found a couple of images that would allow one to divine the size of the main ship, the Liberator.

http://www.blakeseven.com/Articles/Atkinson.htm
http://www.framecaplib.com/b7lib/images ... ace188.jpg
http://www.framecaplib.com/b7lib/images ... llr194.jpg

In the first image, we see the prisoner transport London taking off, on the top of the hangar-looking building, mostly obscured by smoke/steam. However, the size of the hangar, plus the standing dudes, give us a sense of the ship's size. Eyeballing it, I'd say the vessel is in the 20-30 meter range.

The dudes are standing on squares . . . the dudes themselves average 20-21 pixels. Average modern-day UK male height is 1.778 meters.

(Potential error: Averaging the dudes, UK average, actual dude heights)

The square they're on is 60 pixels wide, or about 5.3 meters.

Closer to the hangar building, at a certain point where the cattywompus building meets the left side of the square, the square along the same line as the one the dudes are on is only 33 pixels wide.

(Potential error: Those might not be squares, but some asinine shape. Also I'm measuring a certain point where the cattywompus building meets the left side of the square.)

The building height at that measured point is 78 pixels, which at the 5.3 meters = 33 pixels ratio suggests a building height of 12.5 meters.

Guesstimating the total length of the building were it not cattywompus, I'd say it would be about 125 pixels wide, meaning the hangar building would be about 21 meters long at the top.

The London may overhang at the rear, suggesting a size of about 20-25 meters. (Hey, not bad compared to the eyeball estimate)

In the second and third image (the third actually being a bit of footage reused in a later ep in error, since it has the London), we see the London docked via transfer tube with the Liberator.

The 3/4s view is far more attractive, but the side view is best for our purposes.

The London is about 65 pixels long in the side view. The Liberator, ignoring her extra antenna-like pointy-bits coming off the front of the ship, is about 570 pixels long.

If 65 pixels represents 20-25 meters, then 570 pixels represents 175-220 meters.

Splitting the difference on the London (22.5 meters), then the Liberator would be 197 meters long, hull-wise . . . one could call it 200 meters and be safe, and round.