A lot of people have built this ERTL model over the years with varying results. I built this model of the Enterprise "D"  for a customer in England. It had lighting incorporated into it for the engines and cabin lights. There are about two dozen tiny lights in the model. The biggest jobs (and most boring) were cutting out the hundreds of windows and painting the "aztek" panelling.

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Main hull: Tamiya light blue mixed with a touch of Tamiya Light Grey.
Gray paneling: Tamiya Light Grey mixed witha bit of the Tamiya light blue.
(The trick is to mix them so the blue still looks more blue than the grey does, but to just "bring the colours a little closer together" so they don't look quite so obviously different.)
The lifeboats were painted with na mixture of Tamiya Light Buff and a touch of Tamiya Flat Yellow. The phaser banks are Tamiya dark grey.  The decals were applied using decal settinfg solution and then when dry, the whole model was lightly sprayed with "Testor's Dulcote"
The model is lifghtly weathered with chalk dust.