Ragwing

Ragwing is a restoration game set in a small grass-strip hangar where fabric-covered vintage aeroplanes come back to life. Your workshop takes in Cubs, Tiger Moths, Stearmans, Wacos and a Jenny that have spent decades forgotten under hay and tarpaulins, and sends them out again as flying machines with fresh fabric, bright paint and running engines. It is a calm, hands-on management game about craft rather than speed. Every project starts with a wreck someone found in a barn. You buy it, wheel it in and take it through the seven stages of a real fabric restoration: strip, frame, cover, rib-stitch, dope, livery and engine. Along the way you make the calls a restorer makes. Authentic cotton and dope, or tougher modern polyester? Each decision moves the authenticity score, so you choose between a faithful museum piece and a hard-wearing machine for the show circuit. Finished aeroplanes join the flight line and fly the weekend airshows for gate money, which you spend on better tools, extra hangar bays and apprentices who work faster at their own speciality. Fabric wears, and tired aeroplanes come back for a re-dope, so there is always a job on the bench. In Ragwing the airshow weather is not made up. The live weather at a real vintage-aviation airfield decides whether each show flies, so a windy, wet weekend is a good moment to catch up in the workshop instead. Every type you finish fills a page in the collector's logbook. Sessions are short, and the shop keeps working while you are away, so a quick visit is enough to set the next job and see what the crew got done. Features: • Seven restoration stages: strip, frame, cover, rib-stitch, dope, livery and engine • Five classic types to rebuild in the Ragwing hangar: Cub, Tiger Moth, Stearman, Waco and Jenny • Material choices, from period cotton and dope to durable polyester, that change the authenticity score • A flight line of finished aeroplanes flying weekend airshows for gate money • Hangar upgrades: new tools and extra bays • Apprentices with their own specialities who speed up the stages they know • Fabric wear and re-dope jobs that keep the fleet in airworthy shape • Live weather from a real vintage-aviation airfield deciding whether each show goes ahead • A collector's logbook with a page for every type you complete • The workshop keeps working while you are away • Linen-coloured worksheets, Cub Yellow paint and warm hangar light Open the doors at Ragwing, pull the first wreck out of the barn and get it flying again.

First release.