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Closing down the Workbench

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  "WHAT? No more WIPs? How can you do this? I hate you!" Alright, hear me out! Yes, I'm closing down the Workbench Section but the WIPs will remain. As of now, every ship has a singular profile page, this goes for new WIPs as well as remakes of existing ships. Now, the latter are the thing: Since right now they were linked to from two different pages, the whole thing was a bit redundant and a slight mess to administrate. Therefore, from now on my various WIPs will be featured directly under their respective theme section and will be flagged as WIPs accordingly. So, for example All available XWAU Downloads as well as all respective WIPs will be featured directly in the XWA Upgrade section, same for the Blue Phantom, Episode III or Standalone models. This should make the site less redundant and make things easier for me to keep updated. I will still be posting workbench spotlights of selected Models, using the blog system.  So, down the line, nothing's lost and all is...

20 Years of XWA Upgrade: New Imperial Starships and other great things!

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On August 14 2000 the XWAU released it's first big update: the Rebel Fighter Patch . The actual website was around for a little longer but this was the first XWAU milestone you could say. Many talented people have contributed to the XWAU over the years and 20 years on we are still here! Because this anniversary seemed too good to pass up the team put together this week of celebration. All of the previews and more I have posted this week are now live and in the Downloads page for you to enjoy. Imperial II-class Star Destroyer v2.0 This Starship has been a while in the making and many hands have been hard at work on the Opt. Originally converted from SW Galaxies by Driftwood, DTM tuned it and added cool Flightgroup colours. But, this wouldn't be a Star Destroyer with me getting my hands dirty on it, at least a bit. So I chimed in and did some overhauling of my own, improving various bits and pieces here and there to make it more screen accurate where possible. The new model feat...