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Deep within one of several construction buildings at Tracy Construction and Aerospace, The revolutionary, reusable, single stage rocket, the "Neptune-1" is being developed.

The "Neptune-1" was primarily designed to reduce the cost of travel between space stations It could also be fitted for long range exploration missions.

Designed by Jeff Tracy's mysterious new chief designer and renowned physicist Sir Jeramy Hodges. the first test flight began early in 2064, piloted by Colonel Jack Harris and Jeff's son, John Tracy. On the return leg of the journey contact was lost and John was recovered hours later in the south pacific with an unconscious Harris in Neptune's escape capsule.

Johns account of a massive system failure sending the ship into an out of control spin (which had also knocked out Colonel harris) pointed to an unseen flaw in the ships design. The prototype however was never recovered as the ocean was too deep at that point.

The project was deemed a failure and most of the accounts of the Neptune where lost during an electrical fire in the TDA archives.

But the story doesn't end there...

Part 2 in my attempt to rationalise to some degree the backstory to Thunderbirds. Here we have Thunderbird 3 built under the cover of being some space shuttle replacement that failed and then craftily stolen for IR's purposes. I'll admit it's not perfect, but I prefer this to the Automated production line concept in the comics. I like the idea theres a special story behind each one that makes them somewhat unique. It also makes them very hard to replace, like real characters.
Not entirely happy with the picture but after 5 days I've decided to let it out, Did a lot of research into NASA's Vehicle assembly building for this one as well as a few references to Doppleganger.

Made with:
Lots of Bon Jovi.
Bravado
Simply 3d
Superhuman Strength
The Power of Grey-skull
Photoshop.
Simply 3D
Vue 10

Check here for the making of Time-lapse vid: [link]

Description
Deep within one of several construction buildings at Tracy Construction and Aerospace, The revolutionary, reusable, single stage rocket, the "Neptune-1" is being developed.

The "Neptune-1" was primarily designed to reduce the cost of travel between space stations It could also be fitted for long range exploration missions.

Designed by Jeff Tracy's mysterious new chief designer and renowned physicist Sir Jeramy Hodges. the first test flight began early in 2064, piloted by Colonel Jack Harris and Jeff's son, John Tracy. On the return leg of the journey contact was lost and John was recovered hours later in the south pacific with an unconscious Harris in Neptune's escape capsule.

Johns account of a massive system failure sending the ship into an out of control spin (which had also knocked out Colonel harris) pointed to an unseen flaw in the ships design. The prototype however was never recovered as the ocean was too deep at that point.

The project was deemed a failure and most of the accounts of the Neptune where lost during an electrical fire in the TDA archives.

But the story doesn't end there...

Part 2 in my attempt to rationalise to some degree the backstory to Thunderbirds. Here we have Thunderbird 3 built under the cover of being some space shuttle replacement that failed and then craftily stolen for IR's purposes. I'll admit it's not perfect, but I prefer this to the Automated production line concept in the comics. I like the idea theres a special story behind each one that makes them somewhat unique. It also makes them very hard to replace, like real characters.
Not entirely happy with the picture but after 5 days I've decided to let it out, Did a lot of research into NASA's Vehicle assembly building for this one as well as a few references to Doppleganger.

Made with:
Lots of Bon Jovi.
Bravado
Simply 3d
Superhuman Strength
The Power of Grey-skull
Photoshop.
Simply 3D
Vue 10

Check here for the making of Time-lapse vid: [link]