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Yes you are right with them thinking the ship would get confused with the enterprise. I believe I also heard that they re did the paint job--they also said they used different lighting (such as the red lighting on the bridge you see in one shot). The shot of the reliant at the top of my first post in this topic is a shot where the aztec is clearly visible and you can tell the paint job is different then the enterprise as well.Nosirrag said:Your Reliant looks great. I like the slightly darker look -- that seems the way the model in the movie was lit in most shots.
I heard this story and I don't know if it is true, but someone "in-the-know" told me that Reliant was originally painted white like the Enterprise and that someone fairly high up worried that the two ships would be confused and demanded a new paint job. The Reliant was then painted a light blue with the darker blue accents. Ironically, in most of the shots in the movie, due to lighting and other factors, the ship does not look particularly blue.
A partial verification of the change in color is seen in the various pictures of the model. In particular, there is a picture in the extra features part of TWOK in which the model is very clearly white. Yet, pictures I've seen in the book The Art of Star Trek, the model is very much blue -- more than just a duck egg blue, more like a sky blue. The model retained this paint job for its various incarnations on TNG.
Speaking of which, the Enterprise D in Next Gen was originally painted light blue and green -- but later looked like it was toned down to a light grey. Again, a lot of this effect is due to lighting, film stocks, etc. How a model looks and how it appears on film are two different things.