Thirty Year Old Vintage Fan Art Discovered (February 9, 2024)

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Fan art from 1994! We found these vintage renderings of two Wing Commander I ships while digging through historical Amiga material for our recent demo writeup. These may be some of the earliest surviving Wing Commander fan art!





The files were created by a fan named "Pink" who rendered them using Real 3D v2 (now Realsoft 3D) for the Amiga. These files were originally added to the AmiNet Amiga collection (likely via a BBS) on July 11, 1994! Each one includes a readme file with additional notes:

Short: 736x566 Real3D V2 raytrace. A Raptor starship from Wingcommander.
Author: bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Type: pix/trace
Architecture: generic

The scene shows a fully armed Raptor Attack fighter from the
Wingcommander game. I modelled it using the blueprints that came with
the game, so it's as accurate as the blueprints (and they weren't
accurate at all

Pink

Short: 736x566 Real3D V2 raytrace. A Raptor starship from Wingcommander.
Author: bsieker@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Type: pix/trace
Architecture: generic

The scene shows a fully armed Raptor Attack fighter from the
Wingcommander game. I modelled it using the blueprints that came with
the game, so it's as accurate as the blueprints (and they weren't
accurate at all

Pink

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Original update published on February 9, 2024