Compared to the original model, that has plenty of added detail. The original textures are greyscale and the game used palette files to assign colors. I only have the demo with the first world, so the textures are extra crappy.
I'd like to find a download of the full game, floppy disk version so it'll be smaller. I don't care about playing it I just want to rip the rest of the models. I did the Hawk today, I think that's the last ship in the demo.
There are some other models but they're not ships or they won't open in binedit.
As for "Space Viking"... Some years back I needed a backup name for IRC and everything I could think of was taken. Finally I thought of KVUGNG. You say "Wuh?"? KVUGNG was the code sent to the Mars Viking 1 orbiter to release the Viking 1 lander back in 1976. (I've never been able to find out why NASA chose that, or what code was used for Viking 2.)
Viking, in space, Space Viking. That became my alter-ego for a while on IRC. K'Voo-gung! The Space Viking! "Space Viking" also happens to be the title of one of the best 1960's SciFi novels. Written by H. Beam Piper. Other great books by him are "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen", "The Complete Fuzzy", "Uller Uprising", "Lone Star Planet", "The Cosmic Computer", "Four Day Planet" and several others. The original publisher changed the title of "Lone Star Planet" to "A Planet for Texans", "The Cosmic Computer" to "Junkyard Planet" and thought they had better ideas than the author's titles on some others.
Ace Books reprinted all of Piper's books and short stories, with the original titles and where possible, as he originally wrote them. (Many editors in the 50's and 60's often made major changes in SF books without even bothering to ask the authors permission.) Piper had the unfortunate habit of burning his original manuscripts when they didn't sell right away. Nobody knows how many of his unpublished books went up in flames. Only one or two unpublished stories were found after his death, and nobody knows what happened to the extensive collection of notes and other material he had collected for his "Terro-Human Future History" in which most of his stories were set.
H. Beam Piper shot himself in 1964 because his wife left him, and he hadn't heard from his publisher about "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen". Piper's agent had died and unfortunately the agent was one of those people who kept everything in his head and didn't have a secretary. He'd hired a new agent, who turned out to be a do-nothing type of person who couldn't be bothered to check with the publisher about payments. The publisher was trying to get a big check to Piper for "Kalvan". Meanwhile- Piper was shooting pigeons from his apartment window for food.
Several of his books and short stories are on Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p#a8301
