Razorback

I got one other thing when I was at Ollie's this week. Last week, I brought home a ship from the Star Wars Mission Fleet line of toys to see if it would fit in with the 1/72 scale ships that I've been collecting for use on a mini version of Ankletown Station.

That ship was a good deal out of scale, but I suspected that I could probably adjust it to look like a ship that was in scale after all. I saw another ship at Ollie's last week, though, that might be in better scale. I considered buying it, but figured I would try a cheaper one first.

After trying the Ahsoka Tano ship, I looked into the scaling of the Razor Crest from the same line. The Razor Crest is supposed to be a much larger ship. It's not just a one person fighter, it's more like a bus or a semi truck. It's big enough to have a galley, a bunk, a head, and maybe a...I don't know...a mizzen mast. So, it's supposed to be larger.

I watched a review of the ship on YouTube where they measured the toy with a tape measure. It was 12 inches long. I looked up the supposed measurements of the real ship, and in world it's supposed to be 80 feet long. If you do the math, that means that the Mission Fleet ship is actually a 1/80 scale model (that is if I didn't totally eff the math up. I was struggling to work it out for some reason. Brain fart or something). That's pretty close to 1/72, so the ship should be just right for my space station.

So, while I was at Ollie's again, I grabbed it.

It's a pretty good looking ship.

It doesn't look cartoony at all to me, despite coming from the Mission Fleet collection. There are a few things that might be a little off. The cannons on the side look like they might be a little bit big, but not terribly so.

Nothing looks weirdly proportioned like the hands and feet of the figures that it came with, however.

They're not bad figures, just too cutesy...and of course way out of scale for what I'm after. I actually like these figures, and I'll probably find a place for them in one of the little cubby holes that inevitably get created when I make the spaces for the bigger characters that I need to display on my Wall of Voodoo.

What I mean to put this ship with, though, is figures like these Lightyear astronauts.

It seems to me that that is exactly the scale that ship had ought to be for figures of that size. Big ships like this one almost never get a toy that's in the proper scale for the figures that it comes with. They made a great big ship with HasLab a few years ago, but even that one was smaller than it should be. To make it in proper scale would simply be unfeasible, because it would have to be so enormous that a kid wouldn't be able to play with it at all.

So, this scale is perfect for me. Oh, here's a shot of it alongside the starfighters that the Lightyear figures came with.

Looks good to me, like a C17 with a fighter jet escort or something. Which is probably a pretty good comparison.

So, I'm happy with it. I suspect that it's the last ship that I'll get from the mission fleet line, however. I don't think they have many others that are in proper scale for what I'm looking for.