Yea, I will have to work on why that is. As for the tatical overlay, to answer your question. It is itself a model and therefore has a .asb file, I simply added a scale modifier hoping the game would look for it just as it did for ships and got lucky.

good to know also for other users. but I don't understand how you managed to pan out the camera!

I also thought I was going to have issue with camera zoom out max being set to tight, but when I tested I felt the max zoom out was acceptable. Perhaps the zoom scales with ship size, this is a possibility.