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Looks small.

It looks small but it is not. I found a photo montage with Saturn V. The size should be approximately correct from what I can tell.

https://twitter.com/raumvektor/status/1423633590743617542

Edit: here is another, including Saturn V, SLS, the Space Shuttle and the Statue of Liberty.

https://twitter.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1423642585868931074

This is from a live feed just after the stacking point. Humans in monsterously tall cherry picker for scale:

https://youtu.be/4B2_dfvRZ4M?t=4945

Gigantic!

It looks like one side of the Starship is coated in some black material.

Is it some form of thermal plating or just kind of "no-scratch" thing just for stacking?

Thermal tiles, they’re waiting for the rest to arrive

I think this one represents the scale the best.

Someone on reddit photoshopped both StarShip and Saturn V on their respective launchpads next to each other.

https://i.redd.it/13rkrzq0bkf71.png

You could link to the post itself so the author gets credit

Yes, its so hard to get a sense of scale, our brains just don't have a reference

To note, there is a human standing in every picture except for one as far as I could see. While it isn't too good of a reference since the size difference is so big, it's at least something.

I found a human in every picture.

The last one was hardest, but in the white cherry picker in the air, and beside the orange cherry picker on the ground.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8HaippVIAEsnIG?format=jpg&name=...

Also knowing a ring is about 1.8m or 6 "someones extremities" high should help, but somehow it still doesn't give a "feel" for the height

There’s a person in a cherry picker in the last photo for scale.

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