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Alan Baker

@aebdigital.bsky.social
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European, Systems Engineer and sometime space artist. INCOSE and IAAA member. Economic migrant. Spricht wie ein Österreicher.

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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 2h
They said it couldn’t be done! That it was a crime against nature! “You can’t put two bananas in one skin,” they said. But I showed them. I showed them all! WAH-HAHAHAHA!
Double banana!Double banana!
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
More Apollo progress. Nearly up to a quarter-million verts on this one so far. Possibly I'm going a little overboard on the details...
WIP 3D model of an Apollo CSM done in Blender.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Somehow I managed to completely miss the 2019 New Year’s Day Doctor Who special, and it turns out it’s bloody excellent! Most original Dalek story I’ve seen in years. Also, excellent scarf. (Fingers start involuntary twitching towards knitting needles…)
Promotional image of Doctor Who special episode “Resolution”.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was going for President Sheridan. I think I hit “random over-dressed guy” instead. Still, having fun at Speyer. Not many places you can hang out with cosplayers and a Buran.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Command Module mostly done, except for decals. Working on the Service Module now.
WIP CGI image of an Apollo spacecraft.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More cool aerospace concept art, this time from a vintage pack of cards for the game I knew growing up as a “Top Trumps”. Amusingly, in German the game is called “Top Ass”.
Top Ass aerospace cardsTop Ass aerospace cards
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As requested, the title is “Der zweite Tag der neuen Welt“ (The Second Day of the New World) by Jesco von Puttkamer. ISBN 3-524-69054-8
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some nice pictures in this German book from 1985. Shame they’re mostly black and white, but still nice to see this old concept art.
Painting of a shuttle derived launch vehiclePaintings of space conceptsPaintings of space concepts
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Modelling Apollo for the first time in about 15 years. Enjoying getting all the detals, and I'm quite pleased with that surface texture.
WIP render of an Apollo Command Module.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apparently, wiping out mosquitos wouldn’t be a problem.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
More incredible Eyes Turned Skywards Kerbel goodness, by AmatureAstronaut1969. This amazing alternate history timeline just keeps on inspiring people! forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/228535...
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Quote with your yellow art!
A starship above the yellow clouds of TitanA yellow recruitment poster for the OPA from The Expanse
A spaceship above the yellow clouds of Saturn Starship Reliant above the yellow clouds of Ceti Alpha… VI?
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And yes, I will be doing Spacelab next 😁
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Put my Skylab model up on CGTrader. Both undamaged and damaged versions. Only Blender format so far, as I'm having some disagreements with my material bake add-in. As with my other models, all money I would normally get goes to Ukraine. www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/sp...
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Skylab, with damage and sunshades in place.
CGI of Skylab space station above the Earth.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you see this, post your black and white art!👀🖤
Black and white CGI render of a Soviet LK lander above the moon.Black and white marker-pen style render of a space warship.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Over a third of my battery for 28min of activity? (And I somehow listened to a 50min podcast in that time!) WTF is going on with my podcast app?!!
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here are some images of the ETS Artemis 4 mission I made for the timeline back in the day.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Huh, I'd forgotten about this old render of a Boeing 2707 SST.
CGI of a Boeing 2707 supersonic passenger jet in Pan-Am colours.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you see this, QP your green art. 🟢🌿 #ArtTrain
Spaceships from the computer game "Wing Commander" in front of a green nebula.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I won the IAAA summer art challenge! The theme was 'grey', so naturally my mind went to stereotypical British weather.
CGI of a large, fictional spaceplane landing in heavy rain.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Some more Skylab goodness.
CGI of Skylab space station in orbit.CGI close-up of Skylab space station in orbit.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Skylab, as it was meant to be, with intact meteroid shield and both main solar arrays.
CGI render of the Skylab space station.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
TimeLash is still two months away, but already the moment has been prepared for…
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Some Starfleet Museum goodness, Masao Okazaki’s parallel Trek history that pre-dates Star Trek: Enterprise. www.starfleet-museum.org
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is that Gordon calling them from the Scott Fitzgerald?
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
See you in Speyer, 26-27 September! www.technik-museum.de/de/events/ja...
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What's your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only. “To my darling Candy. All characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.”
The hologram newsreader from groovy funky channel 27. From Red Dwarf.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Space warship William D’Arcy, or the “Billy-D” to her crew.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reminded that this was the normal recovery method von Braun played for stages 1 and 2 of his three-stage ferry rocket.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
And then we never speak of it again!
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Also, no need to worry about what number Doctor we’re on. There would be so many appearing in this episode (or maybe serialise it..?), The could would be pointless. Throw in a rolodex scene of then changing faster than can be followed, to make it a real challenge for those who really want to know!
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As an added bonus, since the Rani also bi-generated, and one of them was killed, they would also be randomly regenerating, but without the option of a cure. You could have a different Rani as the villain in every episode, and maybe an arc about them trying to get the cure from the Doctor, somehow.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This solves the Billy Piper problem (assuming she doesn’t get the role full time, in which case ignore all this). It also solves 14a just hanging around in Chiswick not helping.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is justified as a side effect of the bi-generation of 14 into 15 + 14a. The only cure: to merge them back, of course!
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The next episode/special/whatever should have the Doctor regenerating at random. Every stunt-cast Doctor you could think of? Put them in it!
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My suggestion for how to solve the Doctor Who regeneration problem - a thread.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A couple of older images in a watery theme, from my alternate history “Kolyma’s Shadow”. www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.ph...
CGI image of a West German “Arrow” fighter shadowing a Soviet nuclear aircraft carrier.  From my alternate history “Kolyma’s Shadow”.An American “Columbia” space capsule in the sea at the end of a mission to fly around the moon. From my alternate history “Kolyma’s Shadow”.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Before deciding to put them in the back of a 747, NASA looked into the idea of ferrying shuttle orbiters around the country by airship. Never forget what they took from us…
CGI image of an airship with a space shuttle orbiter hiding in a cavity on its underside.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
if you see this, post your marine-themed art
A large red spaceship, the Battlecarrier “Her Mercy’s Reach”, hovers above the waters of a bay.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Vaguely” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here! I first imagined them as more Age of Sail.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Seriously, God? Seriously?!!
A church tower perfectly aligned to block maximum eclipse.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm so not ready for the eclipse...
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Amaze!
3D render of the spaceship Hail Mary.  Blender model by Chris Kuhn.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Chris Kuhn is an absolute legend. Here are some of the other models he’s made available over the years.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Happy #MapMonday I haven’t done many, but I’m quite pleased with this 3D star map of the Earth-Romulan War, as imagined by www.starfleet-museum.org , with real star positions.
A 3D star map
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Does it have to be completely lifeless?" USS Reliant searches for a lifeless planet to act as a testing ground for the Genesis Device. Reliant model by Marc Bell. Done in Blender.
Starship Reliant above an orange planet.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
QRP with your winged art.
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Alan Baker @aebdigital.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My submission for the IAAA's summer art challenge on the theme "Grey".
CGI image of a large futuristic spaceplane landing on a runway in heavy rain.
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