I just finished reading Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by producers Solow and Justman, and it is a GREAT read about the Star Trek universe, if a bit depressing towards the end. There were many, many foibles with both makeup and the color correctors in the booth, trying to get that "damned yellow skin tone" off of the "alien guy" . Some of the makeup just did not photograph well at all, and with NBC going on to become the "first full color network" with an all-color lineup for the 1967 season the race for more and more color was on.
Currently there are single episodes of ST: TOS running at the 9PM slot in my local Fox affiliate. These are cleaned-up digitally........and I might add some outside beauty shots have been added that were either NOT in the original or have been so cleaned up and re-done that they look new altogether and are unregnizable. During the closeup's on Nimoy you can now clearly make out the demarcation line on the ear latex casts, and the sink lines in his nose from the large glasses Nimoy preferred in those day. It would seem that we can clean things up a bit TOO well now...
for my own small scale (andrea miniatures 54MM Space Officer ) I plan on undercoating the skin tones with a green to allow the hue to come through, knowing that base coats influence our final color. In that scale, that will be sufficient. It is a great cast and fantastic likeness of Mr. Nimoy.
David
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