well I just answered my own question mostly... I decided (after uploading the image to Google Earth, and just seeing how it wraps and what not) that Image #1 I like the most, and that both Polar regions are mostly fine (maybe a little small in some areas so it super stretches) but in all it came together rather well. And while in Google Earth, I realized that if I was using earth dimensions for scale... the continent on the left would be the size of All of Eurasia... So from like the tip of Ireland to pretty much Indonesia would equal the length haha had a good laugh when I did that.... Anyways so I decided to scale it after mars, a much better fit if you ask me. That same continent is roughly the same size as the Americas.