I'm wondering if anyone knows where the 16.3m size for the old R-41 design comes from? It's not got a source note on the wookiepedia page and everywhere else I've found discussing it just seems to draw from that.
I ask because at that size, it's really kind of a ridiculous ship - it's claimed in the fluff describing the ship that space within the hull is so cramped they apparently couldn't fit reinforced bracing, yet at 16+m its internal volume - not counting the cockpit - must be at least double that of the Y-Wing which manages to mount the same armament plus projectile launchers and better shielding. And speaking of the cockpit; at 16m it's particularly ridiculous with the canopy covering an area that could comfortably fit five people and enough luggage for a two week holiday.
There seems to have been a slight modernisation/redesign of the ship for Force Unleashed 2, where they feature briefly in the Kamino battle cutscene, and based on some *extremely* rough estimates(basically, found a shot where it appears one of them and a TIE are on just about a head-on course based on the R-41 shooting it down with its fixed-forward guns, then counting pixels to establish a ratio between them) it seems they agreed with me and made them very approximately about 10m long, and unless I can find a hard source for the 16+m claim I'd like to ignore it and size them about that big(I like consistent scaling for miniatures).