Italian WWI Cruiser Colours

[TZoli]

I would like to ask what colours were used by the Regia Marina, the Royal Italian Navy Cruisers before during and shortly after World War I?

Also all cruisers had deck planking or some had plain steel or even Linoleum covering their deck?

[ModelFunShipyard]

I can't point you to a specific shade of grey for the hull, but looking at a broad spectrum of pictures, from the late 1880s Garibaldi to the dreadnoughts up to the Caracciolo class, Italian cruisers and battleships of that period had entirely wooden decks. Destroyers are a different matter, as are the reparation cruisers (ex-German).