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Tyrel Lohr

@tyrellohr.bsky.social
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here's a shot of the Harbinger ships that I printed at the larger scale, too. The Superdreadnought is 150mm long, making it absolutely monstrous on the table, but then it should be since it's an Ancient level threat that can blow enemy capital ships away in a single shot!
Resin prints of starships in a plastic tray on a blue shop towel. The main focus is a large Harbinger superdreadnought that is waiting for its chance to blast puny lesser empires into dust. A denture brush waits on the side, preparing for the right moment to attack.Resin prints of starships in a plastic tray on a blue shop towel. The main focus is a large Harbinger superdreadnought that is waiting for its chance to blast puny lesser empires into dust.Resin prints of starships in a plastic tray on a blue shop towel. The main focus is a large Harbinger superdreadnought that is waiting for its chance to blast puny lesser empires into dust. The denture brush remains ready to strike.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Starting work on laying down base colors for the VBAM fleets now that I think I have them resized how I like them. Heavy Cruisers are now around 70mm long (instead of 60mm), and everything has been sized up about 125% to follow suit.
A green hobby mat with various paints and glues strewn about haphazardly. There are a number of spaceship miniatures in various stages of preparation for painting, along with two paint brushes. A pair of pliers loom ominously in the bottom right hand corner of the frame, a warning to any miniature that dares get out of line.A pile of miniatures base coated in a mix of purple, green, blue, and gold on top of several pieces of parchment paper. A single ship is still attached to an alligator clip, lamenting the passing of its time in the spray booth and its uncertain future.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Finally the Brindaki Endurance light cruiser is a cut down version of the Perseverance heavy cruiser, with roughly half the firepower while remaining fairly well armored for a ship its size.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Here's one of the original Brindaki ships I did last year, the Perseverance heavy cruiser. This ship is heavily armed, but also carries substantial logistics stores that allow it to support itself and other friendly units when deployed in the field.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Brindaki Tireless corvette is an atmospheric ship intended for colonial patrol missions, keeping the space lanes clear around Brindaki colonies and trading posts.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Brindaki Steadfast frigate is a dedicated anti-fighter escort, built for speed with enough small weapons (including some short range missile weapons) to engage enemy fighters, even though the weapons lack the range or offensive punch to be much of a threat to enemy capital ships.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Brindaki Patroller attack boat meanwhile is a short range defensive craft that is designed for a customs enforcement role. It relies on its short range missile launchers to disable enemy ships prior to boarding them.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I've been in the mood to go back and finish up some missing ships for the Brindaki League from #VBAM. Here is the Dromedary supply destroyer. It's minimally armed, but carries a considerable amount of cargo for a ship its size.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Couldn’t sleep so I went out to do a 5 mile walk. Snapped this pic of the tyrannosaur skull I walk by every day. At one point they had it turned toward the window. Always neat to see what they’re working on.
A tyrannosaur skull in a museum window at night illuminated by a string of lights.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Working on the Markab Shadrak Shrine from Babylon 5 Wars. I am trying to decide whether or not I should have spines on the 45 degree slants of the main body or not? Two on the left are without the spines, two on the right are with the spines. What's the consensus?
Shadrak Without the Extra SpinesShadrak Without the Extra SpinesShadrak WITH the Extra SpinesShadrak WITH the Extra Spines
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I think I finally have a workable Kohr-Ah Marauder from The Ur-Quan Masters done and ready for printing. The "beauty art" for from the ship selection screen really doesn't really match the top-down sprite, so I was left to try and split the difference between the two and fill in the blanks.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'm in the process of printing out two sets of Star Control miniatures for someone as a commission. Have to finish modeling a few remaining ships, but the fleet is coming together. They wanted the big ships at 3", medium ships at 2", and small ships at 1".
3d printed Star Control ships on a blue hex background, with a few metal Babylon 5 Wars miniatures for scale.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I also went in and modeled a rendition of the Orz Marine from Star Control 2. I wanted to have a model of these available as proxies in case anyone was playing a game with the Orz Nemesis that would require boarding teams / assault shuttles on the table.
A 3d render of an Orz Marine. GO GO!A 3d printed Orz Nemesis and two Orz marines on a blue hex map. One marine is printed at a slightly smaller size than the other, making you think one is farther away than it is.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Here are two shots of the printed version of the Centauri ship, so you can see how it turned out when it was printed.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Here's an aft view of the ship that shows that I kept the engine configuration from the original fan design, but changed a lot of the other finer details. I also made sure to mount the twin arrays prominently on the hull, and added some ball turrets to the sides similar to the AOG Centauri ships.
Aft view of the Centauri Advanced Cruiser.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I took a top down render of the ship I found and used that as my basic template, so it maintains many of the same basic forms of the original, but then I more or less did my own thing with the other elements of the design, maintly to keep it more consistent with the existing Centauri ships.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's been awhile since I posted pics of some of the ships I've been working on this last month! Here's a Centauri Advanced Cruiser, based on a top down and art from an existing fan design (whose attribution I can't read, looks like maybe Madkoifish?).
Centauri Advanced Cruiser
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Picture of me from Queer Torrington Pride 2026 🏳️‍🌈! I told Winter to paint whatever they wanted, and that I trusted them. I ended up with this funny little man holding onto my glasses for dear life. I told them my trust was forever shattered. 😆😭 It was fun and I got to meet some neat people!
Picture of me with face paint of a panicked little man trying desperately to hold onto my glasses and not fall off my face.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Started painting on the Kishock heavy cruiser
Kishock Drake heavy cruiser
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Pictures of the printed ships from today.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
There there's this old Centauri freighter, the Virlisi. I started from the B5W silhouette and tried to reverse engineer what I could. I did redo the nose and gave it a nose similar to that on the Centurion (after a recommendation from a patron), and I think this turned out okay.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I also did a quick version of the goofy looking Markab breaching pod that was included in the Babylon 5 Wars game. The silhouette meant it had the wings in those positions, and the big obvious engines. I then designed around those elements the best I could to create the little gaming piece.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I am working on some Markab prints for an old B5W player, and realized my old Mafka Transport cruiser had some issues, so I decided to go ahead and redo it! Here's a look at the remodeled version, along with the a few comparisons between the new and old models.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Meanwhile, I had a request to do a rendition of the Centauri Tavor Siege Cruiser from the Wars of the Centauri Republic B5W supplement. Here's how that ended up. The silhouette made was clearly intended to look like a Primus, so I leaned into that design aesthetic.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I may do a few more fine detail edits to this one, but otherwise the Kishock Drake Heavy Cruiser 3d model is now complete and ready for rendering as part of the cover art for the VBAM Uncharted Territories book.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The marquee on top of the First Interstate Bank tower said 47 F, so you add the wind on to that and it was just a bit too brisk for me. We had 80 F earlier in the week, but today the weather just did not cooperate. Checking FB, I did find a video posted with part of me in it LOL
The lower half of me at Pride, with my light jacket on, rusty orange cargo shorts, and a Chaosium Inc. canvas bag. A delightful dog stands next to me. And yes, I did pet the dog.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Went to my first Pride today. Didn’t get any pics while there, but it was so cold and windy I had to bounce after 2 hours. 😭 glad I took a light jacket with me.
Me wearing a Life is Strange t-shirt and green cotton shirt open over the top of it. Also wearing a Huntr\x ball cap.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Here are some pictures of test prints of the new #VBAM Bintari Federation ships. Need to prime and paint them after they cure so I can double check the fidelity of some of the details and make sure I don't have to make any adjustments before finishing the rest of their fleet.
Four 3d printed starshipsFour 3d printed starshipsFour 3d printed starships
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I then started blocking out the Thantalus Advanced Cruiser. This is basically the Not-Excalibur to the Shantor's Not-White Star. What can I say, younger me was not very creative when he was designing these ships! :P But one this model is done, I should only need two more models to start book art.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Next up is the Bintari Hishoch Warship! I am not super happy with all of the paneling, but I was trying to make it generally fit the silhouette I had for it. I think it still mostly works, although I'll have to see how it renders and prints.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is the original line art I dfid for it back in like 1999 or something. It's very obviously supposed to be a White Star ripoff, but I decided to go with a slightly more utilitarian design this time around.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Working on some artwork for the next #VBAM book. This time it's a redraw and new take on the Bintari Shantor Scout!
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
And for a future project, I ended up sitting down to start modeling on a simple version of the Precursor Flagship from The Ur-Quan Masters. The idea is to model each of the modules so they can be printed and mounted separately, allowing for full customization. We'll see how that ends up working!
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Finally, I went in and did the Nike battlecruiser from the B5 EFNI site. This ship has been in my requests folder for a long time, and I figured I needed something that was likely to be of more interesting to my patrons for this month's release. So here it is!
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Then I had to figure out what to do with the Starfox and Flying Fox. The Starfox is a medium version of the Flying Fox, and the Flying Fox is something of a variant of the Aries. I opted to be lazy and just modify the Aries to vaguely look like the Flying Fox - but visually distinct enough for play.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In the interests of finishing up in-progress factions, I did the Belt Alliance Heavy Gunboat. I tried to reuse assets from the Medium Gunboat where possible, to provide continuity between the two different ship classes.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Since I had almost all of the Grome ships done, I decided to just go ahead and model their starbase and get it done, too. I didn't go crazy on the connection struts, opting to make them a bit bulkier so the base has a better chance of holding up after it's printed.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The next half finished model I actually completed was the Grome Trokan Flagship, also from Babylon 5 Wars. I had this ship mostly done before, but it was waiting for detailing and some final gun placements. Not super happy with it, but it is fairly close to the original silhouette.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Another half completed model that I saw through to completion was the Deneth Watchtower starbase. This is from the Babylon 5 Wars game, and I worked from the top down view of the base to try and figure out what it should look like given its armament and shape.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I then went in and updated another older design to create the Nassar class, which joins the Islamic navy fleet for my Solar War setting. It fit in well enough for the existing Sunnah that I figured I might as well style it in a similar fashion.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I then went back and did a similar process with my old Aberdeen escort carrier to give it some more panel definition and rework the design to make it more detailed. The original version of this was inspired by the Victory from WC3.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
With those Cairo parts, I then kitbashed a lighter warship and a heavier dreadnought for giggles. Not great ships, but it was an interesting thought exercise.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I did work on a new version of my old Cairo class light cruiser. Decided to revamp it a bit and update it to include more detail to it.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Post an image from a game you played as a teenager:
XCOM: UFO Defense
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Kilrathi Hakaga supercarrier based on the artwork from the #WingCommander 'Fleet Action' novel cover. Not a perfect rendition, but it captures the basic feel of the ship, while trying to blend in a bit more with the existing Kilrathi capital ships I did for this era.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Near final rendition of my take on the Kilrathi Snakeir Carrier from #WingCommander #WC1. It's not a perfect fit, as the pixel art sometimes doesn't make a lot of sense, but I think it at least looks vaguely like it's supposed to. Did make the red flares a bit different, just for my own sanity.
Kllrathi Snakeir Carrier - forward angleKllrathi Snakeir Carrier - bottom angleKllrathi Snakeir Carrier - forward rear angle
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It unironically reminds me of the Ipsha Battleglobe from #Babylon5. The B-hive would fit right in with their fleet!
A render of an Ipsha Battleglobe from Babylon 5.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Most of mine end up being attempts to take the 2d silhouettes from the old Babylon 5 Wars game and convert them into usable game pieces. Sometimes that's easy (it's pretty clear what the original intent of the ship was), other times it's... far more difficult :P
Centauri Optine Battlecruiser as I rendered it.Centauri Optine Battlecruiser ship control sheet. This is what I had to work with when creating the 3d model.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And because someone else on the Patreon then asked "What about a T'Loth with Var'Nic panels?" We end up with this monstrosity.
A Narn T'Loth with two Var'Nics as side panels.A Narn T'Loth with two Var'Nics as side panels. Front view.
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Tyrel Lohr @tyrellohr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Here's the T'Loth/G'Quan hybrid with the G'Quan's wings intact, for those that want a real laugh.
A T'Loth with G'Quans for side panels. Pay no attention to the black lines from linear dimension elements that rendered out in the graphic.
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