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How can the service dates be in the future? Well, it all started when Biff Tanner flew his DeLorean Aerospace Morningstar through the Enigma Sector black hole at 88,000 KPS...

She's an absolute stunner, Klavs. Something feels the tiniest bit off about her, though - I'm not sure what, exactly, but something's making me think she looks small. When I first saw the picture on the front page, I actually thought you might have modeled the Tarawa. Once I opened it up and...

The story of Blair taking the blame for the Claw going down comes from the "The Story So Far..." section of the WC2 manual. Considering at this point, Confed knew traitors were becoming an issue (Mandarins had been found on another ship a year prior), an unverifiable claim about miracle...

So as not to hijack Klavs' 3D thread, I've decided to start my own for these little designs. The first is the Rapier II patch/badge that I posted in Klavs' thread, but I've touched it up a little to include a stitch pattern. The second is for Thunderbolt VII. I'm not 100% sure on having the...

Would either of these work for you? The first one is more the "official" logo - on company documents, maybe on a Rapier's fin, that sort of thing. The second is more of a patch/badge for the development team kind of idea.

At a couple of those angles, she almost looks like a Scimitar and and a Raptor had a baby. Fits in perfect with the design lineage. I'm picturing the red scheme being a backwater setup once the F-44G started taking over on the frontlines - something similar to how the Concordia Broadswords in...

Excellent, excellent model. If you don't mind my asking, what technique do you use for the engine flares? Is the Varni quote meant to explain why a brand new fighter in SM2 is never encountered again?

Actually, the Academy manual says the Morningstar "is generally recognized as the current Confederation state-of-the-art capital ship destroyer", so I'd say there's more than Maniac's test squadron flying around.

Love the work thus far, Howard. For the Ferret's scheme, I've got a few ideas: - Maybe the yellow star from the Broadsword on the fins (similar to how the InSys scheme has the red stars), instead of the yellow striping. - Yellow fin tips, with a squadron insignia on the outside of the top...

Both look nice. IIRC, the Epee we fly in WC2 is the F-54C. To indulge in a bit of fan-fiction, perhaps the original model could qualify as an F-54A or B, with an eventual design change adding some stretch to form the C, similar to how the C-141 Starlifter had some extra length refitted to...

You owe me a new keyboard, I've drooled all over this one. ;) Absolutely amazing, Klavs.

Personal Log, 2654.139, 0920 hours This day has started off bad…let’s just hope it doesn’t end up worse. I’m supposedly pulling three missions today, and just got back from numero uno. “Disaster” doesn’t quite feel like it measures up. Knight and I were assigned to fly escort on a hospital...

"No words...should have sent...a poet..." That Bengal is beyond incredible. Howard, any word on that tutorial you'd mentioned a little ways back? I know I for one would kill for a chance to learn to texture as well as you do.

Personal Log, 2654.110, 1830hrs We jumped into Enyo today, and I was assigned to patrol duty in a Hornet. The colonel put me in charge of Alpha Wing, with Spirit alongside. Frankly, I was surprised. A rookie like me, flying lead with someone with the reputation of Spirit? I guess the colonel...

In WC1, we're given a rough idea of how much time passes in various missions - for instance, the briefing for Enyo 1 mentions that it's 1500 hours, and the debriefing is mentioned to be taking place at 1700 hours. Thus, we end up with a little under two hours in space (presuming there to be...

The Sivar was actually escorted by a great many ships - all of the capships that you destroy through the course of SM1 are the fleet which was escorting the Sivar. Halcyon even makes mention of this in the final briefing before attacking the Siver in Vigrid: Not too sure about any other...

The Wing Commander Academy manual states the Morningstar went on to become the premiere killer of Kilrathi capital ships in the late war years..

A tutorial from Howard Day...someone cue the angelic choir, please.

Well, a month late (the joys of coming home to a job that's gone straight to hell while I was gone), but I finally got the chance to sit down and tweak this. Figured I'd get it posted before heading off to work tonight...

Sorry about not having gotten an update on this yet - I left for England the day after I initially posted this, and am still going to be over here till the 22nd of April. Once I get back home to my computer, I'll give this thing a touch-up and post it again.