NCC-1701-E Enterprise colours

Hello Cairnsy

Sorry, I don't know what happend to my post.

http://www.round2models.com/files/instructions/amt613.pdf

Here is the link to Round 2, they are the current manufacturer of the Enterprise E in 1/1400 scale. It does have callouts for painting of the entire ship, but does not give FS numbers. My opinion, in this scale, light ghost grey overall looks good. Also, you can find aftermarket decals but they can be pretty pricey. Just do a Google search .

The Round 2/Polar Lights kit is excellent and so are the decals. So if you do not want to deal with your kit as is, then pick one up (approximately $25 US in my local hobby shop) .

Hope this helps

Larry

Instead of trying to match the apparent white base color with black dark patches ( and, of course, the light gray plating detail ) I saw in the pics of the studio model, I went for a "cool" ( as in bluish ) tone when I did the kit years ago.  I remember using a 50/50 FS Light Gray/Flat White for the base color, straight Light Gray for the slightly duller light patches, and FS Insignia Blue for the really dark areas like the wedges on top of the saucer.  Some of the darker gray details like the triangle marks on the saucer's underside were done in FS Light Ghost Gray.  I used the Model Master paints for all of these by name, but don't have the actual FS numbers handy.