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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm dedicating a blog post on it, so it might be a few days, but probably will be worth it.

Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think I used a 120 mm lens, that will compress quite a bit. I probably will do some more renders of it in the future. (Below is a post I did 10 months ago, with an Ortho.) bsky.app/profile/yard...

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Do not worry! 🙂 I will answer this tomorrow, because I need to sleep now. I hope I can scratch that itch, with my own justification as well as an in and out universe justification. I tried just now, but no way I can do it in 1 post. 🤣 TBC!

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Test render from a few years ago. (USS Sato) Currently a little busy with tiny "near future" hardware. Next week I will start on yacht concept visuals. Both are not Starships, but they do pay the bills and are at least somewhat in the orbit of sci-fi :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Scary stuff, the website is online! Over the next couple of weeks I will be adding some more logic/images/info to the gallery page, and include the workbees in the starship catalog. www.hsy.earth/site/

This meme has nothing to do with my website. But it is urgent.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A prison I did around 2007 for a fan film. (In the Star Wars universe.)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The first image was the moment I realized that the planetary shipyard in the middle of an ocean was not ideal for larger & ring ships. 😂 This is why I'm working on the space dock. It also makes a little bit more sense in terms of my "brand" name. Progress on the space dock is slow but steady. :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Manticore that is indeed a name I have not heard in a long time. 🙂 Are you SCN/Subspace Manticore? (I might mix a lot of things up right now, so apologies if that is the case!)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm still chipping away at a new website and blog. Here is a preview of the new logo, and well, a 2021-ish shot of the Aventine, as you don't follow me for logos. :D

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Some test images, from February 2014, of a Spirit class variant. I was alpha testing Moskito renderer by Cebas. These rendered under a minute. (in 2014, on a single mid range GPU.) As I came from "buckets" this was very impressive to me. :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Thank you! :) I was indeed Googling "Shape Whale" for a second to find out if it was a certain ship. Most of the time a ship from some series or in some universe is unknown to me, and then I'm slightly in panic that it might look too much like that. Phew! :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Lunary Serenity is a hybrid between a Yacht and a Starship. Render and model from 2007. *I'm currently working on a blog/website with a gallery of old and new work, a bio and some information about HSY both in and outside of the or a universe. (Much required for average non Sci-Fi person.) 😀

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

From 2009, an UESPA era station. (unfinished)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Yeah, I'm 50/50. :) Modern Ships have the same problem (or feature if you like) :D Parameters are standardized but HMI is not. I assume it is difficult to do so with constant evolution.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Love it! :) It would be great if Starfleet could standardize this a little, so that everybody can stay sane. 🤣

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

It is, if both nacelles are oriented like TNG did. In the Vesta MSD the nacelle looks attached/flipped, that is confusing. I think this already proven by people not being able to determine if it is a quad nacelle ship or just a characteristic of the MSD layout. Still: concept filler, grain of salt 😀

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I agree, in concept art this could also be a fast way to fill empty space. Then we come around and read too much into it. :) Compression on the core is quite high with 2 nacelles, with 4 the compression would drop below a replenishment threshold required to get correct plasma cycles. I think...😀🤷‍♂️

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This month the Merian class will be 15 years old. I'm very confused as I started on it in 2009, but I assume that I then gave priority to Vesta and XCV, to finish the Merian in January 2011. Also one of the latest renders of it, (Strickland variant) from 2024.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Yes, or it is a way of presenting the left nacelle. :) If it is a quad setup, a crime has been commited. :P

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Some concept art from Picard (not by me) showing a Vesta class starship on an MSD. I personally would have picked a very different bridge layout, but within the show this would have been a "quick" set redress. That Vesta, (USS Hikaru Sulu) + Captain Harry Kim part was dropped from the story.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Every time my follower count reaches a milestone, some Ferengi trader sends me the same amount of Self-Sealing Stem Bolts, I assume as a cruel joke, just for the shipping fee. (Who else would use 2 containers...) 2131 SSSB's... 🙂 A workbee uses 6. (Six!) Either way, thank you for the follow! :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Maybe, but here it is mainly done for QSD. (This is very much a science platform.) :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

*I'm still here but super busy with anything but Science Fiction... argh! :) For 2026 getting structure and improving work/hobby/life balance is going to be the main goal. Meanwhile, here is a slightly barebone image of the USS Carver.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

IXL Galileo, landed on a pole of KOI-4902.01.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Apps like 4K Downloader can do this. I give it a go, here is an mp4 of it: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hmvn4...

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hey Andrew! It indeed has been a while! :) Will do!

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Low Domain Quantum Slipstream. (I wanted to go with LDS first...) A slower less invasive form of Quantum Slipstream. I needed a story mechanism that would allow me to keep these short transit times over 10.5 Light Years. At Warp cruising speeds, it takes too long to commute. :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Tiny departure schedule for the dock. (Basically the daily commuting runabout (Pleiades) and some weekly supply/cargo/material shipments by Starfleet.) Still all work in progress but slowly creeping towards a completed dock.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Inspection of Venetia Starlight. (Modeled in 2008 but recent renders.) A star yacht with forward nacelles. Some ships in this class are outfitted with roll out solar sails for a calm (but slow) journey.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

A still from "765874 - Memory Wall" by the Roddenberry Archive. (I only delivered the ringship model, they do this magic!) 🙂 youtu.be/fzeznWVQu5o

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My design for an RC Crawler back in 2009 vs a DARPA concept vehicle in 2022. :) Convergent evolution. (Or so I hope. :D)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I keep chipping away at a new (friendlier and smaller) habitat for the shipyard. Made some new doors today.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

(2/2) I know it looks almost the same, but the 22 version has slots for the pylons and mounting points on the nacelles on the top and bottom, that way it is not just stuck on/in the pylon/hull but really slots in, and all variations would become "valid". That was super important to me. :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In a way yes! The Curie (from the books) in my mind always had this config. The large Sato side pods would be different/smaller on the Curie. The version on the schematic was a proper conversion I did in 2022 for Picard. (unused) In 2012 I did this mock up: (1/2)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Very cool! :) I like smaller ships, they are more manageable, and in a way just more logical.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If not me, you can always ask one of the many talented modelers on here. :) I first need to finish a shipyard. (Working on it!) :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

But it does exist. :) What era would it be from? *Most of my work is somewhere in limbo between unfinished or in my head. I do have a huge backlog of ships/workbee/shipyard to finish, so my single nacelle design...maybe in 5 years? :P

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Cool! I still want to do a single nacelle ship. I know it might break older Trek rules, but they are not totally implausible. (As long as the nacelle exterior sort of depicts it is a dual coiled system.) I for example like the proportions of the Freedom class, but not the re-use of a D nacelle.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

USS Sato, schematic view. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/i0y5m... <Bigger version.)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

In an alternate timeline: Shuttle IXL Galileo is (very) near and ready to dock after collecting some atmospheric samples from Proxima B.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

A Borg cube I did in 2005. Maybe it was a cube still under construction.

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Bussard diagnostics on a New Atlantic class runabout. (Somebody needs to do it!) :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Diplomatic Star yacht (traditionally) docked at Laibok. (Andoria)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

You kind find a couple of these in the Full Circle (Voyager) novels from Kirsten Beyer. I worked with her to get the right ships in that fleet. :)

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Holland Space Yards @yard2380.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

The livery is very Section 31. :) This concept is dated Friday 31st of October 2008. A week or so before we settled on Probert's curved pylons. I did try out a few different configs. I personally liked this, but it would make the ship a bit shorter than was desired.

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