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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Were there changes made to the model for this? I've seen other photos of the model on that stand, and it has the scorching and extra lump underneath that was added for ST4, but that was all removed for ST5 as far as I can tell...

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Diogo Vincenzi @diogovincenzi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been quiet lately, just been a bit burnt out on CG, but I'm hoping to get back to things soon. In the mean time, with the calendar finally out, I can post the work I did for the 2027 Ships of the Line calendar! www.artstation.com/artwork/xdDgor

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Star Trek - Ships of the Line 2027, Diogo Vincenzi

It was an absolute privilege to be invited to do an image for the Ships of the Line Star Trek calendar. I was given the option of rendering the Constitution Refit, which is my absolute favorite design...

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wait 10 years and you'll get to see a few more of the things you got wrong 👌

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Howdy! Here's an update to the last video, longer, with better music, way more detail, and VO. I hope you like it. 4K in the 🧵!

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I haven't updated the Bird of Prey for a while... map work on the main hull is done, I am now on the forward section, but taking a little break for the moment to do some other things (and enjoy the summer!) 🖖 #StarTrek #Klingon

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They were displayed next to each other at the auction...

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Is this the main miniature, or the separate larger scale wing that was built for Star Trek V? I have a feeling it's the latter as I've spent far too long staring at photos of the full miniature recently...!

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Robert Wilde @misterwilde.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Check out my Patreon for a quick tutorial on how I make rocks fast using blender geometry nodes.

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

What would probably happen is fans look forward to it, until it starts, then one section of fandom looks on in horror at the other section who inexplicably actually do like it, when it's clearly terrible....

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

They say basically because they think Stargate fans might like it and they wouldn't want that.... 🫠

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Diogo Vincenzi @diogovincenzi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Progress on my version 2.0 of the Connie Refit as well as some tech I developed for window interiors. #startrek #ussenterprise #enterprise #llap #interiors

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Definitely going to be the best Akira out there 👌

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Some people just can't help themselves. Not cool

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Current state of the texturing on the #Klingon #BirdofPrey. Still so much to do! Running into some serious problems with Substance Painter at the moment, where it now hangs when saving the project 😞so progress is halted until I can find a solution... 🖖🖖 #StarTrek

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

12-month averages now put the natural gas component off UK electricity generation at around 20-30%, yet it is priced as though it was 100% natural gas, significantly inflating prices and contributing to the stifling of the wider economy

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Quite simply, the best version of the Akira class there has ever been. Will be amazing when finished 👌😍

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Okay, this is a massive re-render of this scene, with bespoke, actual voice work by Balwin Williams Jr - Tons of improvements and tweaks, and I really like how it ended up looking and sounding. I hope you like it!

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Back to the Barn - Penultimate Star Trek short shot! It's almost done - I just need to re-render the whole thing. :P Brand-new VO work by Baldwin Williams Jr. This shot was a monster to render. 4K in the 🧵! Enjoy!

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Misha Siegfried @mishasiegfried.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Trying my hand at doing new Trek style lighting and compositing. Made the hull materials much more metallic than I normally do and much more modern/vivid color palette. Rendered in Blender Cyles Composited in After Effects with Red Giant #startrek #blender3d #scifi #3dmodeling #adobe #aftereffects

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Here's just the preview part of the end of the shot, with temp VO and music, for those interested. :P

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Some texturing progress on the Bird of Prey... yeah, this is going to take a while! 🤣 🖖 #StarTrek #Klingon #SubstancePainter

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I think this counts as a project milestone... 😎 Now in Painter and ready for some Fun™️ 🖖 #Klingon #BirdofPrey

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Well, 2 months later and now it really is complete 🤣🙃 Everything is unwrapped, final modelling cleanup done, etc. Just packing now ready to move across into Painter, where the fun returns!

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

To see everything. Also the Ashmolean, as it happens

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The quality is incredible! Amazing

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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Getting into Star Trek Enterprise again and hitting the heartbreak of there being nothing more after season 4 - are the books any good does anyone know? #startrekenterprise

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Too difficult a shape to build on the budget they had... So not very close to the miniature unfortunately

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by @esa.int Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on: flic.kr/p/2rMW4so Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭

$A wide view of the planet Mars fills the frame, shown as a curved, rust-colored world against black space. The bottom edge fades into darkness, marking the planet’s night side, while the upper portion is brightly lit by sunlight. Near the right side are three large, round volcanic mountains of the Tharsis region, each with a wide circular base and a darker central caldera, resembling shallow craters pressed into the surface. North of these volcanoes, stretching almost vertically across the upper right half of the planet, lies Noctis Labyrinthus and Valles Marineris: an immense system of deep canyons and fractured terrain that appears as pale, branching scars and cracks, partly softened by hazy, cloud-like atmospheric features. Near the center of the image, positioned between the volcanoes and the canyon system, a small dark oval appears against Mars’s surface. This is Phobos, one of Mars’s satellites. Its tiny size stands out sharply against the vast scale of the planet below.$

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Admire this fantastic pic, dominated by the diffuse blue light of the M78 nebula. Igor Chekalin, by processing the raw data for the original image uncovered in ESO's archives, claimed first prize in the ESO's Hidden Treasures 2010 contest with his final work. ➡️ www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭 🧪 1/9

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I finally finished reading this (I'm a slow reader these days!) Fantastic book, really thorough and fair treatment of the man. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Didn't all this 'it's an alien spaceship!' nonsense stem from a paper someone wrote, doing a purely hypothetical what-if scenario (but clearly stating that he did not think it was anything other than a comet), and then mass media did it's usual thing... Voilà, new conspiracy theory

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Next up is a whole load of consolidation and cleanup whilst also handling the UV unwrap

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And finally, at long last... Bird of Prey modelling is complete*! Last element to add was the rear ramp, roughly as seen at the end of The Search for Spock. As this was not part of the model, some minor changes were needed. Originally had it with 2 sections, but added a third to reduce the angle.

Bird of Prey with rear ramp extended - 2-section iteration

Closeup of the Bird of Prey's rear ramp - 2-section iteration

Tighter closeup of the Bird of Prey's rear ramp plus interior details - these are matched as close as I can to the live action set that was comped into the model footage at the end of The Search for Spock.

Bird of Prey's rear ramp extended - 3-section iteration. This is the final form, giving a more comfortable slope angle for the ramp.

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

And as a vertical short, you'd have billions of views! Billions!

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

An excellent #StarTrek Steamrunner class model and warp effect animation from Japetus Productions - I once did some renders with his Saber class, he is nailing these updates of First Contact ships www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXi...

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Star Trek: Steamrunner class- U.S.S. Appalachia responds to a distress call...

YouTube video by Japetus Productions

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

So now the Klingon Bird of Prey's landing gear is fully complete. Working out the mechanism for the hatches turned out to be a lot harder than I expected! Very little room left to work with! Forward ramp also finished. This was included on the studio model, but never seen on screen. #StarTrek 🖖🖖

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey extending its landing gear. Viewed from underneath, the feet still folded up just emerging from the gear bays.

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey, landed. View from ground level astern.

WIP render of the Klingon Bird of Prey's main access ramp, which opens facing forwards. This version of the ramp was included on the original studio model, but never seen on screen.

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Love the bold, free style 😎

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The attention to detail on that model was quite something

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

That's how they want people to call them now. Türkiye

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Paul Dobson @martocticvs.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Excellent colour reference for me! 🖖😀

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Little bit more progress on the rear hull of the Miranda class. This is the total surface area that I need for my planned render- just have to detail the crap out of it (and do an equally detailed rollbar going overhead.

A 3D render of the rear top section of a Miranda class ship from Star Trek. Some parts are very detailed, with modeled panel lines. Other parts have no details at all. There are no textures yet, just solid colors.

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