This photograph of the night side of Earth was obtained yesterday after the completion of the trans Lunar engine burn. The original image has been rotated to have North near the top, and the overall tonal values have been adjusted to in my judgement better represent the brightness range between the Moonlit Earth and the bright limb. I have manually removed a couple interior lights reflections from the image. Venus is at the upper left, and the dim fuzzy conical Zodiacal Light looms from behind Earth. The hidden Sun is behind the upper left portion of Earth. Stars are recorded, a rarity in such photography. Aurorae are visible as light green outlines standing apart from the polar regions. Across the entire night side a detached dim olive green 'Airglow' layer outlines the edge, or 'limb' of Earth. City lights are clustered near the coastal regions of the land masses.

The Artemis II crew are well equipped for photography and are paying attention to the opportunities. On the outbound leg of their journey to the Moon this photo showing global scale dim light phenomena was obtained. I have removed the interior cabin lights reflections and adjusted the brightness.

My model of a Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway 7F. (Face by me)

Woah another new model.

I've been reworking my RWS AU a bit, and given that it includes the purchase of 2 S&DJR 7F's in the early-30's, I figured that I should probably make a model of this class of engine to use at my disposal.

Passengers and Goods YouTube video by Planetkid32

Also available to watch on YT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7p3...

It's not really that common for me to upload 2 new videos in less than a week, isn't it?

(Credits are at the end)

So I just left this (still WIP) set on the back burner until earlier today, when I found out about this plugin that converts parts into terrain, and now progress of this set has been moving along rather swiftly:

A LNER K2 locomotive in blue livery is pulling a train of green-and-cream LMS coaches.

Janet taking a passenger train along the NWR mainline. #STMY #TTTE

Business as Usual YouTube video by Planetkid32

Also available to watch on YT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEb...

I felt like making another video on my Vicarstown station set.

(Credits are at the end)

Faces made by yours truly. 😉

A 3D render of a LNER K2 class 2-6-0 steam locomotive. It is a work in progress and missing details along the chassis.

This is Janet, a new character who'll be introduced in #STMY. She's based at Barrow along with Neville and Caden, and is the NWR's current no. 11.

I'm using Bandicam to record my modelling of her, and will be doing a multi-part video series showing my techniques for modelmaking.

#TTTE

So after neglecting this for a month after initially starting it, I've decided to resume work on my Pluto Kuiper Express model, and I must admit that it's coming along very nicely. It's still got a few things that I need to figure out, but overall I'm pleased with how this model looks now.

Hi, folks! Here's one of my earliest and still favourite animations, created in 3ds Max in 2011. It's shows the hellish landscape of Earth's Hadean Eon, shortly after the formation of the Moon, more than 4 billion years ago.

Who wants to go?

Omg finally they added the ability to save drafts.

A Furness Railway 115 class is seen backing onto his train at Vicarstown station, while he's in a foul mood. The coach at the head of the train can be seen with an anxious expression, as it seems to have taken notice of the engine's mood, and is hoping that he won't take his anger out on it, or any of the other coaches. (Face by Trampy)

Haven't really posted anything with my Roblox models recently, though it's mainly because of my other hobbies, and the fact I'm hoping to get a new PC soon, since Windows 10 support is ending this Tuesday.

In the meantime, I figured I'd post a new screenshot anyways, as I think it's a bit overdue.

Thomas & Friends™: Wonders of Sodor - Coming Soon!

A brand new game from Dovetail Games, the developers of Train Sim World, has just been announced - and we've helped out!

The Reverend Wilbert Awdry had a 3D Relief Map of the Island of Sodor made in 1950...

I found a way on how to make swarms of planetary objects with "chaotic" orbits, so I decided to make a quick little test animation of several protoplanets whizzing past in a sort of "celestial roller derby" if you will.

© 2026 Planetkid32

My WIP 3D model of the canceled "Pluto Kuiper Express" (PKE) probe.

An artistic interpretation of the PKE spacecraft, arriving at the Pluto-Charon system. (Art by Michael Carroll)

So here's something new for me. Yesterday I thought it'd be a fun idea to try and make a 3D model of a proposed mission that ultimately never was. Now I don't have any experience with modelling spacecraft in 3D, so I don't expect myself to be able to finish this, but at least I'm making an attempt.

Ice towers of Callisto.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem

Uncovering Hidden Systematics in Extreme-Precision Radial Velocity Measurements We identify and correct for small but coherent instrumental drifts in seven years of radial velocity data from the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph (EXPRES). The systematics are most notable for the six...

In case anyone is curious, here's the paper that disproves Rho CrB d:
arxiv.org/abs/2601.02296

So this is a revised version of a video that I posted last month, because a paper just came out earlier today saying that Rho CrB d was actually just a false positive, so I had to re-render the system just to remove that one planet.

Music by the USAF Heritage of America Band

© 2025 Planetkid32

All the models of engines that I made in 2025. (And barring Pre-Sodor James, this does not include any pre-existing models of mine with cosmetic differences) (Faces belong to their original respective creators)

All the models of various pieces of rolling stock that I made in 2025.

Now that 2025 is over, I figured that I'd show all of the models that I made in the previous year. I definitely wasn't as productive as I was back in 2024, but hopefully that won't be the case for this year.

Bro wee just need 2 more signatures for this thing omg 👀

Fish Engine YouTube video by Planetkid32

Also available to watch on YT:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al0s...

It's been a while since I posted a video involving my Roblox engine models, but I figured that I'd make one before the year ends, especially since it's been nearly a year since my last RWS-related video.

(Credits are at the end)

So I decided to redesign 98462's faces, loosely based off the faces of those new James toys for the upcoming 2026 series.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

I don't know what else to post, so here's 98462 because I made new faces for him lol:

I've heard about planet WASP-76b showing hints of optical phenomenon called Glory. It looks like iridescent rings caused by liquid droplets in clouds. In this case the liquid droplets are made out of molten metal in the clouds of this hot Jupiter planet.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #Exoplanets

Honestly, I don’t know how you do this kind of stuff. It’s just incredible. 🔥❤️

My model of a Midland Railway 2441 class tank engine. (Face by me)

I really should give the MR more attention, because I've kinda been neglecting it in favor of the FR.

Anyways, new engine model:

My model of James, as he looked before coming to Sodor. (Face by pubigub)

I figured I'd do this since I've got a model of James at my disposal, and I don't really have an excuse not to:

I have been neglecting Uranus system for a long time now.
So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem #Uranus