New WC Ship Silhouette Discovered in Hebrew WC2 Translation (March 4, 2024)

Bandit LOAF

Bandit LOAF

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Super cool news: Christian Klein discovered a piece of Wing Commander ship art previously unrecorded by history! Check out this cool silhouette art from the cover of the Hebrew translation of the Wing Commander II manual!





It's done in the same style as the "World War II" silhouettes in the original manual... but it isn't one of them!





There's a similar piece of mystery WC2 art in the FM Towns port packaging: line art of a Drakhri that's shown in part on the case, disc and back of the box. It has seven missiles instead of four! I need an art person to make a whole version of it.





Discovering liminal art like this is one of my favorite things. A couple of other examples: the Czech cover of Fleet Action, Chinese disk labels for the original Wing Commander, the Korean 1999 movie poster and an early Privateer placeholder to fill out a '92 catalog!






Here's another example of this: the banner GOGcreated for their release of Wing Commander Academy. What the heck even is this?! A stock image of Star Wars-style ships?





I'm totally cool with cases where we're technically just absorbing art from other universes, too. It's Wing Commander now, suckers!




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Original update published on March 4, 2024
 
I still say that the ship on the Hebrew translation cover is a Broadsword with torpedoes and missiles slung underneath it (for the sake of posterity, I'll mention that I voiced my initial opinion over on Discord).

Can't help but notice the Broadsword wasn't among the silhouettes you posted up there...here, let me help you out.

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Can't help but notice the Broadsword wasn't among the silhouettes you posted up there...here, let me help you out.
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It's the first one in the post!

I agree it's probably supposed to be a Broadsword. But... why? What prompted a licensor to create a new piece of art in the same style as the ones in the manual?
 
Bandit LOAF said:
It's the first one in the post!

I agree it's probably supposed to be a Broadsword. But... why? What prompted a licensor to create a new piece of art in the same style as the ones in the manual?
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It is because it is the super-secret IDFAF variant of the Broadsword. lol
If you know aviation you will see how IAI makes modified variants of numerous aircraft, some of which are brain bending (their custom BF-109G withe Jumo 211F engine for instance), and others of which are such super cool. So, the artist probably just chopped a bunch of pieces together to make a "cooler" IAI-ish Broadsword. Too bad they didn't do more.
 
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