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I always confuse the name of the corvette Kagimasha from End Run with Kurosawa's 1980 film Kagemusha. No idea what a kagimasha is.

You're welcome, I just wish I could be of more help. If it wasn't submitted to the site directly it's probably not going to be in the file archives, especially when it was 20 years ago. A lot of the space sites are gone now, although I don't remember that one being very big even at its peak...

They both have a character named Sam!

Could you link to the original thread? A lot of people here don't follow Gemini Gold or Vega Strike in general. We have a dedicated Gemini Gold forum but it's mostly inactive. (I would redirect you to the Vega Strike forums but they're even more dead than that one).

I think this is why there's so much speculation about it: other than the Concordia in the intro, they're never seen again. The Thunderbolt and Excalibur appeared in Secret Ops a year after Prophecy, meanwhile the Rapier and Broadsword don't appear anywhere again until 2007. The Wing Commander IV...

It's not as clear from the in-gamesprites but the Morningstar really is a much more contemporary looking design than anything else in the game, especially the underside. Was it designed by the same artists that did the main game?

I believe a lot of the current thinking on the star destroyer length originates from this site many years ago. It's by a man named (Dr.) Curtis Saxton who gained infamy on the old alt.starwars.vs.startrek newsgroup for measuring the explosions from the asteroid scene frame-by-frame and then...

This is the greatest thing I've seen.

One big difference between the Spacedock and Perry is that it doesn't seem to have any doors on the upper hull. There is the part on the bottom which is shown on the box with a (hilariously out of scale) Centurion docking but the primary hangar seems to be the tunnel at the top (marked TUNNEL on...

That's interesting, I wouldn't have guessed that because the interiors don't really follow the exterior shape that closely. The part that does is the hangar but wouldn't that have been green screen?

All the model comparisons have been to Strike Commander, but there's actually a much more relevant one: Wing Commander III itself. I remember when this topic came up before there was some speculation as to whether or not the Realspace engine could handle some of the more complicated shapes...

Here is a high-res image of the F-16 from the Strike Commander libRealSpace object. As you can see, it handles the model perfectly fine, and it's no more complex than the Sabre. I am absolutely sure that the engine could have handled it. One noticeable difference from later models is that the...

Maybe it's because Wing Commander was the game that I played last, but I have a hard time treating the Hornet as the "most iconic" fighter of the series. I don't even think it's the most iconic fighter in the game it's in. When it comes to Confed fighters I would probably go with either the...

Oh I meant the actual vinyl pressings for records. Apparently because the format stayed popular there longer the factories stayed open and were able to take advantage of the boom that happened fifteen years ago or so.

Not surprising, I think most of the world's vinyl production comes from a single factory in Japan?

They should have put ten or so winning stories on the demo disc. I always find the runner ups in a contest like this to be more interesting than the winners, especially if it's decided by jury. Also, Behemoths and a Kilrathi outlaw? Sounds like False Colors!

You should do the New Detroit pad and mount it on your wall like a shelf. The Gladius in Armada is 36 meters (in length). I have no idea if this is a feasible scale or not.

How big are the Galaxy and Centurion? It's funny how small the Dralthi is. If I'm reading your scale correct the actual size of the Tarsus should be around 28 meters, which would make them the same length. That is, if the Claw Marks figure stands －but then, the Privateer Dralthi is the same...

Sorry, I didn't phrase that right. How tall is the figure meant to be in 'real life' (e.g. 180cm)?

Yeah, if I had to pick an Orion model to use it's the larger one that you're currently using. It just looks better, and it's used more often in the game. It looks like you were pretty close with the Talon? Only slightly off with the scale. How tall is the pilot figure you're using meant to be...