FTFC19 Wing Commander Hornet designed by AircPirateNinsei

AircPirateNinsei · Aug 7, 2018

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The Hornet is a light fighter for the Terran Confederation during the Terran-Kilrathi War in the game "Wing Commander". Maybe some of you played this game in the nineties. Wing Commander is the eponymous first game in Chris Roberts' science fiction space flight simulation. The game was first released for MS-DOS in the year 1990. Thanks to DosBox this game still works for me. Here are a few screenshots:

I think the Hornet is a good choice for this challenge. Maybe someone will build a Kilrathi Dralthi for a dogfight.

SP0NZ · Aug 7, 2018

This is AWESOME! I loved the Wing Commander series.

rockyboy · Aug 7, 2018

Oh yeah!! I spent more than a few hours running this on the old DOS 486 with 256 megs of ram

Erospace · Aug 7, 2018

rockyboy said:
Oh yeah!! I spent more than a few hours running this on the old DOS 486 with 256 megs of ram

You had 256megs? Lucky, I started with 128... and a 1.67 GB HDD.

kilroy07 · Aug 7, 2018

You mean this game?!

(and yes... that IS Chris Roberts signature in the bottom right corner...)

rockyboy · Aug 8, 2018

Erospace said:
You had 256megs? Lucky, I started with 128... and a 1.67 GB HDD.

I was also running AutoCAD 9 for work so I needed the RAM

AircPirateNinsei · Aug 24, 2018

The parts for the wing are drawn and the fuselage is in the planning stage. It still takes some time until V0.1 can take off.

AircPirateNinsei · Dec 2, 2018

The first parts are ready for cutting.

Two sheets of FT-Foamboard should be sufficient for this model.

PsyBorg · Dec 2, 2018

Wow. This brings back memories as this was one if the first games I got for computer.

I remember having to get a math co processor just to run it. I was just given a hand me down 8088 mb and proc with a whooping two whole sticks of 128 meg ram, both 2.5 and 5 inch floppy drives and a massive 20 gig hard drive.

It had an old monochrome monitor but soon found a guy refurbishing monitors and upgraded to a 15 inch vga just for this game.

Come to think of it. I dont think I ever finished the game as i soon had another hand me down and got into Decent 3d with the old flashy glasses that alternated lens to produce the 3d effect.

Can't wait to see how this turns out.

FoamyDM · Dec 3, 2018

This will be fun!

FDS · Dec 3, 2018

When you make a Cobra Mk3 from the original C64 Elite I will be in space plane ship heaven.
This design looks amazing, how does it actually fly? Prop or EDF?

AircPirateNinsei · Dec 5, 2018

I would like to equip the model with a propeller setup (FT Power Pack F) for the time being.
Maybe an EDF version will follow, let's see. It has to fly first!

Cobra Mk3 - do you mean this one:

I think it's a model for thrust vector control.

rockyboy · Dec 5, 2018

Oh yeah! I loved Elite on the C64! Spent many hours in that wireframe universe

FDS · Dec 5, 2018

Yes, that one!

d8veh · Dec 5, 2018

You beat me to it. I love the colour scheme. I was going to build a Cobra after my present project, but I guess I'll have to do an Imperial ship now. I love that game. I have more than 5000 hrs in it and have three different commanders at triple elite. One of them did it just for the challenge only using the starter Sidewinder.