Monogram's USS Voyager

By Garret Parsons

This kit was built ten years ago to see if I could reproduce the exact colours of the studio model, not how it looks on TV. The kit out of the box wasn’t bad, but not accurate. I had to decide what was worth changing and what wasn’t. The basic shapes were off but not enough to change. Lifeboats were added and the forward window was enlarged as was the two side bridge windows. I spent hundreds of hours adding tiny slats to the phaser strips to correct them. After reviewing the color instructions of the model it became apparent they were way off. I decided this was were I was going to focus all my efforts (paining is my thing since I had been an illustration artist) and paint the model not like you see it on the TV screen but paint it like they painted the studio model. The problem was I had no photo’s of the studio model and there were no pictures on the Web at the time I built this model. So I contacted Rick Sternbach from Paramount Studio’s. Rick was the art director for the Star Trek franchise at the time. He actually went to the studio were the model was and took pictures for me and sent me an email with colour chips to show me what the colour actually was. He used a system called the "Pantone Matching system." So the colours you see on this model are very accurate.  Image: Bridge Image: Hull Image: Neck Image: Saucer Image: Saucer Right Image: Underside

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