Ciao all,
Ok, here is the authour of that drawing and the guy that on early year 2000 was the one that strongly beleived that the so called 'Mountain profile ' was Schanhorst last camouflage, while the majority of the persons were still thinking that the dark grey one was the last one.
Of course evidences have demonstrated I was right and now everybody knows that the ' Mountain profile ' is the Scharnhorst last camo from July 1943 until December 26th, 1943, still well visible on the wreckage at North Cape.
Initially I have analyzed and produced 3 differents schemes, on 3 different colour tones.
The first one on red brown/green as it was suggested being like that on a German camouflage book photo caption; this one :
http://www.amazon.de/Die-Anstriche-Tarn ... 3763759646The second one on Norwegian blue tones, as that camo on Scharnhorst was made on July 1943 meanwhile Lutzow Husar one on Km blue tone colours was made at same time and the camo could simulate sea waves according to some persons.
The third one that resulted to be the correct one was made on tone of greys, like the Tirpitz Op. Spitzbergen camo done on same timeframe on July 1943, and was representing Norway mountain profiles with snow on them, that is the reason of the thin white line on top of the camo patterns representing Norwegian mountains.
So NO red brown tones, NO blue tones, but grey tones.
Were are the evidences : on a Norwegian underground communication to British Intelligence on late 1943 while they were preparing the trap of North cape were Scharnhorst was finally sunk; source Alf R. Jacobsen excellent book on Scharnhorst at pages 241-242.
http://www.amazon.com/Scharnhorst-Alf-R ... 0750934042Not only the British required Norwegian underground agents to draw Scharnhorst camo patterns and send it to them on paper, but since they were not sure about the colours used by the Germans they asked via radio to the Norwegian agents and the response was very clear : the Scharnhorst camo patterns are mainly done on Grey tones.
The latest version of that camo drawing that can be now a lot improved on camo details since many new photos are now available is here in :
http://kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=450If any help is needed and I can contribute to release a better overall model or better camouflage instructions just feel free to contact me; no problems as usual, at the end all those camouflage infos on Kriegsmarine warships came out of my 37 years study of them so far.
On the original colours I can only support the trusting on Olaf Held, he is the real expert on RAL German colours and I always rely on him for colours as well as translations German/English.
@Rob,
I can see some problems also on the technical layout of your drawings showed above, just 2 easy ones, ..... there are no torpedo installations as far as I can see, totally missed, ... and there are the flagpoles that should not be there at all during war time .... just as starters ...... than there is another important detail I discovered lately not present on my drawings yet and still unknown to the most, .... as researches at top level never stops, ....
Bye Antonio