I guess the link would help…

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/103885/star-wars-x-wing

About half way down the page, under videos.

 Watching again, maybe the bases are about 1 1/4"?

So I looked at the latest pictures of TIE Fighters here on FFG, and I looked at pictures of TIE Fighters on boardgamegeek.  It seems like someone sprinkled them with MiracleGro.  They were definitely too small before.  Now…they just look a little too big.  Time will tell (but not fast enough :)).

Interestingly, the X-Wings seem to have stayed the same size…or am I misperceiving things?

Baphomet69 said:

Struggling with the video in stop-motion on my broke-a** computer, I'm thinking I agree. perhaps even 1 1/2". Just looking at the bases compared to the mens' hands. I ALSO think DogSolitude's "WAG" of 1/300 is closer than my earlier take of 1/350. Might, in fact, be larger still; like 1/200. I say this 'cos I measured the eentsy WotC X-Wing, and doing the math based on stated length of 12.5 meters blahblah, it actually shook out at about 1/338 - even bigger than 1/350! Whatever the FFG versions are, they're clearly larger than Wizards' and so 1/350 is a non-starter. So much for THAT pet theory.

 I really don't understand the big secrecy, or at least silence on FFG's part. What would be the big deal about a company rep posting some measurements on here. This extends to their overall silence. Don't they want to fire up and generate a good vibe with their customer base? Maybe I've just been spoiled by companies like Reaper.

 I'm thinking 1.5" is a good guess. Assuming the bases remained the same size (which we don't know), I measured the bases in an image from GenCon that displayed both card games. I took the proportion of the base to one of the SW:TCG cards, then measured my LotR card to guess how big the base was. Obviously this is imprecise, and my measurement came out to 1 5/8", pretty close to 1.5", I think.

The fighters are a lot smaller than I thought they would be (judging by the bbg pix where the guy is measuring with a ruler and you can compare his hand to a fighter). Still neat. For some reason I thought they were going to be the same size as the die casts already out there.

It just struck me that they look similar in size to the old Micro Machines toys from the 90s.

 Looks like the official scale is 1/270.  So my WAG at 1/300 wasn't that far off.

I love the shot of the various scale proto-types.  The OCD in me really wants to know what ALL of the test scales were.

Great article!

bsmith13 said:

Now I have started to wonder if the "official" measurement of the length of an X-Wing is 12.5 meters.  (This is what it says on the encyclopedia at starwars.com.)  I have no reason to believe that 12.5 meters isn't accurate, but it will be nice to see confirmation.

If 12.5 meters is accurate, a MicroMachine X-Wing is 1/265 scale. This is REALLY close to the stated scale of 1/270.  I don't have any WotC X-Wings to show a size comparison, but I know the MM X-Wings are slightly bigger.  You can google "micromachines x-wing" for pics if you want to…

 Concerning the matter of wrong "official" measurements of the ships, the Millenium Falcon's length was considered to be about 26 meters, but that was changed recently to 34.37 meters. And the official length of the A-wing is 9.6 meters, but size analysis of the movie models suggest a length of 4.8 meters, and the size chart in recent handbooks points to about 7 meters.

As far as I know, the official measurements of the X-wing (12.5 meters) and the Y-wing (16 meters) are correct.

I like Star Destroyers as much as the next Guy, maybe even more.  I mean they are awesome symbols of the Empire's might.  But this is going to be a dog fighting game, Star Destroyers don't dogfight.  They really aren't much more than a platform with lots and lots of guns once your get to the star fighter scale.  I would love a game with a star destroyer scale, and fighters could participate in that, but they would have to be something like fighters in Axis and Allies War at Sea, where entire dogfights are decided with a couple of dice rolls.

I am excited for this game, and very excited for the expansions.  But I don't ever expect to see a Star Destroyer.  I expect that Slave I or the Millenium Falcon will be huge and powerful ships.

Remember that a single Star Destroyer carries 72 tie fighters of different types.  Just the fighters from a single star destroyer is likely too much for this game.

 The other thing to consider is that at scale a Star Destroyer model would be almost 6 meters long, or ~19.5 ft.  Not something most people could use let alone something FFG would sell.