Patrick "Pat" Gene McClung (born 6 June 1955; age 69) is an Academy Award-nominated motion picture visual effects artist who specializes in models and miniatures. His first professional film work was providing effects props and miniatures to the production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture while employed at the model shop of Apogee, Inc.
Since Star Trek: The Motion Picture, McClung has worked as a model maker for Ghostbusters (1984), a technical supervisor for the miniatures in Aliens (1986), and chief model maker for Die Hard (1988). In addition, he was in charge of the weaponry effects for Masters of the Universe (1987), served as model shop supervisor for The Abyss (1989), and created the helicopter models for 1993's Cliffhanger.
McClung earned Academy Award nominations for his work as miniature supervisor working for Digital Domain on True Lies (1997, among those sharing the nomination was fellow Star Trek effects artist John Bruno). McClung also worked in Digital Domain's miniature department on Apollo 13. McClung earned a second Academy Award nomination for his visual effects supervision on Armageddon (1998). Other films on which he served as visual effects supervisor include Chain Reaction (1996), Dante's Peak (1997), and Charlie's Angels (2000). He was also the miniature unit supervisor on X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, starring Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Kelsey Grammer, with Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chelah Horsdal, Julian Christopher, and John Pyper-Ferguson).
McClung is featured in the 2011 documentary Sense of Scale, in which several model makers discuss their craft, and which also features Ron Gress, Greg Jein, and Gene Rizzardi.