This is the best picture I can currently lay my hands on that gives you an idea of the pearl effect---at the back end of the right engine nacelle. The Enterprise looks pretty damned big, doesn’t she?

I would include a shot of the huge Maxella facility, but it has been torn down and replaced by condos

All the bits I previously completed were wrapped in Handiwrap cling film to protect them

Lousy picture...but you can see the pearl, and as your point-of-view changed, the dark bits would light up and vice versa, so the skin of the Enterprise came ‘alive,’ changing colors and values as the pearl did its sparkling thing.

I still use that same respirator mask

that I bought in 1978 to paint the model, when airbrushing my large acrylic paintings today

You can still see my original paintjob pearlescing ever-so-slightly under the dulling spray

The Aztec pattern can be seen even on this final incarnation of the model

I was pleasantly surprised to see so much of my lightning-bolt design elements and pearling effects were still left to see on the wings

Ha! Two little bits of pure, original, unadulterated pearl!!!

If you look closely, there is some pearl at the anchor point of the dorsal, two thirds of the way towards the rear

The photos left, right, and below are of the model as she is today, after numerous resprays and modifications

Art Center, Pasadena...as it was when Peter, Ed,. Bob, and Mark were there

At Magicam...you can’t see the multi-color effect here (very old slides badly kept through 15 moves and 4 transatlantic container trips and storage in unheated garages in various ports on both sides of the pond)

Ron Gress (foregound), Mark, and me preparing to turn the model upright

Wearing a shirt Lesley whipped up one evening in 1972. I still have it and wear it 40 years later.

Handiwarpped at the model shop, Maxella

Spraying against a frisket at Magicam

Ready to go home to feed Flash and Raffles

Getting the Queen of the Galaxy ready for last minute fittings before shooting

Mickey Olsen posing in the Enterprise’s first transport box made to take her from Hollywood to Marina del Rey and the Maxella facility where she would strut her stuff for everyone around the world.

The Mickey ears are the rests for the engine nacelles

A not good photo of the hull bottom at Magicam. Had I known these photos would be extremely sought after and important. of course I would have taken more and better ones...but I was not allowed to have a camera at the facility. Being caught would be instant dismissal. So I’m surprised I have as many renegades as I do have

It had to be done

These are all the photos I have of the Enterprise...I’m surprised they have survived with all my moves back and forth across the pond