Need color info on early Soviet ICBMs

http://kits.kitreview.com/images/celo44007vostoksb_1.jpg

http://kits.kitreview.com/liftoffpreviewbg_1.htm

Some ideas, don't know if they are accurate

Here is a text I found on ninfinger.com :

"The color of the launchers is a gray-green which is very close to Testor's Euro Gray. According to Charles Vick Soviet film was green sensitive so the launchers appeared more green. I used Euro-Gray on a Soyuz launcher and an N-1. In some photos they appear grey and in others more green depending upon the exact lighting conditions. This is just like the real launcher. "

The Euro gray he is refering to is FS-36081.

I hope it helps you!

Here is a link to that article: http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/rms_tips/colors.html#slv

Thanks Yann for finding that quote on Soviet launcher colors. It is an amzing coincidence that you found what I wrote before I had a chance to provide the information myself.

Barry

Thanks guys, for all the help. Does anyone know, since I don't have the Testor's color pamphlet handy, if that gray-green color is available in Model Master, and if not, does anone know a good mix? Or perhaps Polly Scale? Oddly, it sounds a lot like the genuine IJN gray that covered early Zeros and WW II Japanese fighters, and can be duplicated with Polly Scale concrete with a few drops of Marine Corps green added to it.

I'm still trying to figure out the color of the SS-6 drawing kindly sent to me by Nick. This drawing has a different warhead than the stubby one on the Cutting Edge kit, and for sheer looks is much "cooler." I use parentheses because we're supposed to be serious historians here and not concern ourselves with aestheic matters. But that color on the drawing appears to be gold to me.

Since I'm on a tight deadline, I'm going with the green-gray suggestion and explain to our readers that these colors are entirely speculative, researched to the best of our abilities.

TOM