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Title: Korolev SK-5 glider colours. - Quick question. Post by: Javier Planells on October 12, 2019, 12:58:52 AM Hi chaps!
Long time not entering the forum. Hope you're all doing well. I returned to two of my old loves, gliders and scratch-building. Didn't know about Sergei Korolev's stint as a glider designer and got pleasantly surprised by his designs. I'm finding it hard to settle the colour of the SK-5. There were two schemes, the first one allegedly in red and yellow (very much like the SK-3); the second one is a mistery for there's no mention of it anywhere. Just the one I want to portray, since it will make a nice counterpoint to the SK-3 when I get to build it. First scheme - Red and yellow: (http://xn--80aafy5bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Planer-Koktebel.-2-600x547.jpg) (http://xn--80aafy5bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Planer-Koktebel.-1-600x570.jpg) The second one: (http://xn--80aafy5bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/5.S.P.Korolev-v-kabine-planera-Koktebel.-Ryadom-S.N.Lyushin-i-K.K.Artseulov.-600x512.jpg) (http://xn--80aafy5bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/1.Planer-Koktebel.-600x506.jpg) Could it be Silver and Azure Blue? i don't recall grey being used at the time. And silver dope looks greyish in many a photo of the era. It's a mistery I want to unravel, if at all possible. Thanks in advance! P.S./ Just when you post something, you find another picture you didn't know :D Could it be the Blue Grey used from 1927 to '37? Or a very light blue? (https://hsto.org/webt/my/ls/g5/mylsg54xdxg3uh1vhaiu6cdhfuy.jpeg) Food for thought. Title: Re: Korolev SK-5 glider colours. - Quick question. Post by: Massimo Tessitori on October 12, 2019, 01:52:09 PM Hi Javier,
the question is interesting. You've found a very nice image, but it is colorized on a bw base, certainly not an original color photo. The guy that colorized it hardly had more informations than you; I think that his choice was a guess. Silver and light blue is likely enough, in absence of other informations; I don't think that it was the same light blue of military planes, but something glossy and pastel. Regards Massimo Title: Re: Korolev SK-5 glider colours. - Quick question. Post by: Javier Planells on October 12, 2019, 07:21:21 PM Hi Massimo.
Yes. It's a colourized copy of one of the previous images, the one with Korolev, Lyushin and Artseulov. Would have been glad to find it was original, tough ;D So much to find yet about early soviet paints! Thanks for your help on this topic. Best regards, Javier. |