Does the combat viewer scale down huge ships?

Hello, I recently designed what I thought was a really big ship, huge hull size...the info screen said it was 1500 meters long.  But when I engage a couple of fighters, they appear in the combat viewer to about a third the length of my capital ship.  I would have thought that tiny or small hull size ships would be like flies buzzing around this thing.  So, does the combat viewer scale down the size of really big ships?