• Sample of paint layers taken from a unseen section of a spaceship studio model. The bottom layer is a brown-colored wood, with a basecoat painted over it prior to the top layer of gray paint.
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    A cross section, or microscopic sample of paint, taken from the saucer of the Star Trek starship Enterprise studio model in an area that was hidden by the bolt cover. The image, photographed under a microscope at 200x magnification, reveals the model's original color from the first pilot episode. The bottom layer is wood, the white middle layer is a coarse primer layer (basecoat), and the final top layer is the original grey.

  • Sample of paint layers taken from a unseen section of a spaceship studio model. The bottom layer is a brown-colored wood, with a basecoat painted over it prior to the top layer of gray paint.

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