Jumping ahead.....

Hull Coloring

There seems to be some question about the colors used on the Galaxy-Class Enterprise, so I'm clearing this up right now. I originally indicated that the paneling of the D Enterprise would be painted in two shades of blue. One is a duck egg blue, and the other is a kind of sky blue, (which is the base color in which the plastic model kit is molded). By painting these two blues together I was hoping to provide some visual continuity with the apparent blue/green coloring of Kirk's original ship as seen on Television.  For some unknown reason, however,... those colors were intentionally neutralized when the miniature was filmed, reducing it to the ranks of yet another gray spaceship.  And this dis-coloring was perpetuated in subsequent movies. This is the root of the problem.  Do you paint the ship as seen on your Television screen,... or as originally intended and painted for the series: Star Trek: the Next Generation?

Presented here, are the base colors originally specified for the Enterprise: NCC-1701-D



To further clarify these indications, here are the  PMS colors along with their FS counterparts:

Colors: NCC-1701-D HULL GREEN  HULL BLUE Nav-Deflector Dish Nav-Def/Housing Lifeboat Covers Sensor Strips Shuttle Bay Decks  Phaser/Photon Housings   Phaser Banks RCS Housings GRAPHICS Hull Lettering BLUE Insignia, other Graphics RED ENGINES Front End-Caps Engine (serrated) Neck Power Coils Coil Gaps (between)

Federal Standard FS-24516   FS-15526      FS-22246 FS-10115 FS-36595 FS-35450 FS-36270 FS-36307 FS-34201 FS-23564 FS-25065 FS-21105 FS-22203 FS-33538 Metallic Copper FS-35231

PMS 565 290 166 154 413 278 430 423 455 616 281 186 159 130 542

USING THESE COLORS SHOULD PRODUCE THIS RESULT:



And here's a nice closeup for you too,... shot before those large lounge windows were devided up.



... so have fun.