Thema: Zeitliche Gliederung der Umbauten an SH und GU

[Antonio Bonomi]

Ciao all,

I have ready 22 Gneisenau  ''tarnanstrich'' schemes to be showed,  anybody interested ?

        Ciao  Antonio 

[toppertino]

Yes,Antonio.
We are very interested.It would be nice if you show us your paint shemes.

Regards

[Peter K.]

Anybody interested?

... of course, I am always interested! 

[speedl]

Hello Antonio,

I'm very interested too. Please let us see your new schemes, I'm sure they will be brilliant!

Greetings Stefan

[Antonio Bonomi]

Ciao all,

OK, thanking Thorsten ( T-Geronimo )  and Harold for their kind help and suggestions that will enable me to post them let me do some work to personalize them as far as size and removal of the swastikas ( air recognition )  and you will see the full Gneisenau life evolution in colours.

Ok,..I go for the work and I will be soon back here,.....

          Ciao  Antonio 

[Antonio Bonomi]

Ciao all,

ok first of all I need  to provide you a legenda to read thru the yearly evolution of Gneisenau.

The Gneisenau had 8 major refit works done on her, so  starting from the base drawing, it will be 8 more so a total of 9 base drawings for ship technical modifications.

Each base drawing scheme as been consequently indentified with a number fron 1 to 9, so GU1, GU2, etc etc till GU 9 which is the last one.

On of those 9 base drawings there have been various camouflages applyed, that I have identified with alphabetical letters, from A  to V proggresively.

Those ship evolution plans basically explain  the whole ship modification and hopefully provide you a clear way to  read the attached schemes.

Please keep in mind that this is a never ending research work, as by putting out my work I hope to stimulate more discussion, have persons with addittional informations contacting me, maybe survivors looking at them and gave som einputs and so on.... so our future knowledge will hopefully grow more.

This is my final goal,  learning more and preventing the memoy of those beautiful ships to disappear, while helping everybody to learn and know them.

Enjoy the ship 

                 Ciao  Antonio   

[Antonio Bonomi]

The 1939 and 1940 evolutions.

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The 1941 and 1942 evolution.

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Here the first 4 drawings:

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...and here the second set of 4 drawings :
 

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Now we enter the various operations codename with turret paintings, Nordmark and Weserubung, YELLOW and RED :

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Last part of the Norwegian campaign, with Juno and  the torpedo taken,  than the return to Germany with that dazzle camouflage she had also on the dry dock back home.

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After the repair on dry dock, the Baltic scheme, finally a correct sheme  as all the ones out there were wrong unfortunately.

Than the ship was repainted base grey and sailed for Operation Berlin first attempt on December 1940, but under the base frey on the photos you can still see the dark grey on the stern and on the bow of previous Baltic camouflage scheme, especially on the photos of her in Bergen on December 1940.

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Finally the Operation Berlin started, but they changed colour with YELLOW.

Before sailing they added the frame betwenn the hangar and the funnel, and placed a 20 mm Vierling C38 on it.

When the ship was out of the Luftwaffe range, they covered the air recognition with light grey paint.

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Finally out of Brest dry dock, at first was the old light grey painture, than a much darker colour before sailing for Operation Cerberus.