Originally posted by phase pistol@Mar 3 2006, 05:20 PM
I have recently come to believe that all the markings on Miarecki's restored 11-foot Enterprise were actually THERE during filming... it's just that he "emphasized" them too much.
I never used to believe that there were gridlines on the bottom of the saucer, for example... but now I think they were there.
He just rendered everything too vividly is all... Too heavy on the airbrush. Note how on the unretouched TOP side of the saucer, the gridlines are just faint pencil marks. The lines on the rest of the ship should have been equally faint.