Enterprise 1701-A Paint Question

[JBReplicas]

I am currently building 2 PL 1701-A's and intend to light one and have the other just painted, I was wondering what colour to use on the inside clear section of the nacelles that is blue when lit, do you guys paint it or leave it clear and use a blue light to get the blue colour, im rambling sorry :confused any help would be great

 

[Rhett J Martin]

Tamiya makes a great clear blue that when lit by white give a nice violet blue hue to the nacelles. Bu that's only if you're soing a ST:TMP paint job. Any of the 2-6 paint jobs, the nacelles are nice and blue.

 

[Hand Solo]

I'd suggest that if you were to leave one unlit, that you paint it UNLIT, since you'll have a lit one.

To answer your question, I believe that the filming miniature used purple machinist's dye on the inboard flux chiller grilles. So, I'd use a deep purple, which will appear almost black and be technically correct. The raised ribs I believe were a gunmetal color.

Try it, test it out and see what you think.

 

[JBReplicas]

Great, thanks for the tips :thumbsup

 

[ShowCraft]

If this helps... the recesses of the ribs were painted dark (gun metal?) grey and the outer face tinted purple. It looked to me as it the tint at the edges of the raised ribs was sanded off to allow just a squeek of white light to come through.

 

[GrenadeKing]

Do they make purple machinists dye? :confused
We only had blue. There was a really really old bottle of pink in a storage room, but, I've never seen purple.
Seeing the pictures, Im leaning toward blue, if that is indeed what they used. The blue dye tends to shift color in light a lot and can be very dark depending on how many coats you use.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Jim,
I thought you lost those photos. Great to see them. It was fun seeing the refit up close.

It's possible they used purple pearl since the model was done using powered pearls mixed in clear. Purple dye is too solid. Purple pearl would be my choice.


Mark