On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 03:38:46PM +1000, David Jaques-Watson wrote:
> Douglas Knapp wrote:
> > I have been fantasizing about doing a complete deck plan for a tigres.
[...]
> Printed out at 15 mm scale, it would be H-U-G-E!!

A 500k dton ship with 4 m between decks would total 1.7 km^2 of "deck
area".  I expect most of it would be taken up with enormous equipment
that crosses through multiple levels though.

At 100:1 (which is close to 15mm), the plans would take up at least
170 m^2.  Rather more once you account for margins and annotations.
For a roughly spherical ship most of the deckplan levels would be
about 2 to 2.5 metres across, and there would be something like 60
levels.

Splitting it up into A4 pages, there would be up to 100 pages per deck
level for a total of about 5000 pages.  That certainly qualifies as
H-U-G-E in my book!

- Tim