Enterprise 1701-D model colors

Dark/light ghost grey for the aztec pattern. The studio miniatures are blue, but the E doesn't appear bluish at all on film.

Casey,

I used a base coat of duck egg blue. For the contrasting color I used duck egg blue with just enough forest green to change the color slightly.

You can see how it looks at

Casey Tompkins wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I used Camo grey for the basecoat, then did the Aztec in light ghost grey. All the details (shuttle bay doors, for example) were light ghost grey. Phasers were SP Lark Dark Grey. Came out VERY nice. Next time, I'd use light sea grey for the aztecing.

Trek ships change so much depending on the episode,whether its film,tape...your own eyes,that it's hard to decide.And are you painting to match the filming model or how it looks as if it were real? I painted mine with model master aircraft grey,and considered it a compromise.

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Eyeball2002308) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m04.aol.com:

I registered mine as Odyssey, so I went with the thought the ship was built at a different time with slightly different materials and thus the difference in paint scheme. Since Odyssey only appeared once, then was promptly destroyed, one would be hard pressed to argue with me on the colors! :)

Actually I saw another guy's model of the Galaxy class and it looked great with camo grey base coat, so I followed suit. Also I hate that blue color, it's just wierd. I don't care much for the green either. To me, the grey scheme looks more military than the blue/green scheme of the original episodes. The -D changed color slightly in Generations.

As an aside, I use camo grey on most of my Federation starships from that era. The only exception was Voyager, I used Floquil Deckhouse blue as a base coat, then light and dark gull greys for the details and deflector grids.

Zammer

I built one of those 3-ship sets...of the originals...and used RLM 65 light gray on the Enterprise....RLM 66 dark grey on the Romulan Warbird.....And Amtrack Blue on the Klingon D-7. They look outstanding. I don't know, though, if those colors would look as good on a larger size.

I gotta pic around here, somewhere...maybe I'll post it to a.b.p.m if i can find it.

-Kevin

"Kevin Vernon" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.teranews.com:

post a link if you do. Starship Modeler is a good place to show off your pics, too.

Here you go, Zam... a link to pics of the 3-ship set, plus a few other cheesey sci-fi ships. And a Mercury Capsule. Pic posted on a.b.m.s as well.

As stated - Color used on Federation Ship was RLM 65 Light Grey. Romulan Warbird was RLM 66 Dark Grey. Klingon Battlecruiser was Floquil Amtrack Blue.

-Kevin