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Korolev SK-5 glider colours. - Quick question.
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Javier Planells
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« 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:





The second one:





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  Cheesy Could it be the Blue Grey used from 1927 to '37? Or a very light blue?



Food for thought.
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Massimo Tessitori
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« Reply #1 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.
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Massimo
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Javier Planells
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« Reply #2 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  Grin

So much to find yet about early soviet paints!

Thanks for your help on this topic.

Best regards,

Javier.
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