I am taking a step back for every two forward....
Although it is perfectly reasonable to surmise that the deckhouse colours were the same colour as the sides...
-seeds of doubt have been cast by some of my Krasin e-correspondents , cereberus_jf for one
...
by study of a number of other vessels of the Russian Navy--albeit somewhat earlier naval vessels-that often the deckhouse roofs WERE a different colour...
The build of my models is in danger of a stall...--for lack of info on a key component--the colour of the deck house roofs and it being verifiable...!!
.......the only on-deck photos I have ..are either cluttered up with aircraft--or are too low res to read anythiong from.
This postcard below -- in a higher resolution WOULD be useful--I have written-via google translators... to the uploaders on a variety of Russian forums for a higher res version
we can only hope...!!
meanwhile....
Some plans indicate that the area ahead of the bridge-to-the breakwater was all timber--other plans ( and some models' suggest that area may have had lino covering....
but.......
neither the plans or indeed all the models agree--
either on deckhouse colours- not seen a single photo ( yet!!) of the real ship with white deckhouses...
where in fairness..
the all-grey wartime model has funnels that agree with my findings--ie no cowl-skirt!!
arghhh!
Then again--ALL the plans show a tapering-in-height breakwater that cannot be verified in any photo--
and NONE of the above models appears to depict this correctly ....
The breakwater, according to all the images I have downloaded ..., being virtually constant in height to the deck-edge--and only after a sharp bend and following the deck-edge aft... does it reduce in height ....
I have downloaded--all 362 mb ! - of a documentary film( 1928 ) made of the Krasin Nubile rescue in 1928....
I shall now study this in an endeavour to be able to freeze a frame that will help me out of this turmoil and torture!!
As a sign of life--to prove that this is not merely idle speculation
encs some images of progress so far ( all of one month!!!!!!!!!!!
)
The white styrene at hull base is to raise the hull when it is in the ice....
I am taking a step back for every two forward....
Although it is perfectly reasonable to surmise that the deckhouse colours were the same colour as the sides...
-seeds of doubt have been cast by some of my Krasin e-correspondents , cereberus_jf for one :thumbs_up_1: ...
by study of a number of other vessels of the Russian Navy--albeit somewhat earlier naval vessels-that often the deckhouse roofs WERE a different colour...
The build of my models is in danger of a stall...--for lack of info on a key component--the colour of the deck house roofs and it being verifiable...!!
.......the only on-deck photos I have ..are either cluttered up with aircraft--or are too low res to read anythiong from.
This postcard below -- in a higher resolution WOULD be useful--I have written-via google translators... to the uploaders on a variety of Russian forums for a higher res version
we can only hope...!!
[attachment=7]ariel pt aft zoom in.jpg[/attachment]
meanwhile....
Some plans indicate that the area ahead of the bridge-to-the breakwater was all timber--other plans ( and some models' suggest that area may have had lino covering....
but.......
neither the plans or indeed all the models agree--
either on deckhouse colours- not seen a single photo ( yet!!) of the real ship with white deckhouses...[attachment=6]draw_krassin1.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=5]model type A_whiteand_grey.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=4]ModeltypeB_allwhite.jpg[/attachment]
[attachment=3]modeltypeC.jpg[/attachment]
where in fairness.. :thumbs_up_1: the all-grey wartime model has funnels that agree with my findings--ie no cowl-skirt!!
arghhh!
Then again--ALL the plans show a tapering-in-height breakwater that cannot be verified in any photo--
and NONE of the above models appears to depict this correctly ....
The breakwater, according to all the images I have downloaded ..., being virtually constant in height to the deck-edge--and only after a sharp bend and following the deck-edge aft... does it reduce in height ....
I have downloaded--all 362 mb ! - of a documentary film( 1928 ) made of the Krasin Nubile rescue in 1928....
I shall now study this in an endeavour to be able to freeze a frame that will help me out of this turmoil and torture!!
As a sign of life--to prove that this is not merely idle speculation
encs some images of progress so far ( all of one month!!!!!!!!!!! :Mad_6: :doh_1: )
The white styrene at hull base is to raise the hull when it is in the ice....