The original Thunderbolt model first appeared in May 2004 and was built using a magazine cover disk version of Truespace. After stretching my budget to buying Cinema 4D in 2012, a completely new version of the hero ship model appeared and this version with minor changes was used ever since. Now for 2025, I've decided to do a retcon and fix a problem that has been bugging me for years - Thunderbolt 2012 is too big in 'real world' terms. Reducing the vessel's size solves two problems. First, it allows the hero ship to have a smaller crew compliment focused on the player characters without a bunch of NPCs. Second, a smaller ship is easier to stage and frame in finished artwork when placed next to reference points like buildings, people, and trees. In Traveller RPG terms, this means Thunderbolt shrinks from 800 tons to 300 tons displacement, drops the small craft, but retains it's outward appearance virtually unchanged. As always, the scene was modelled and rendered in Cinema 4D R16 Visualise - thanks for looking