Vostok in whitish silver and green-brown

[Max Thierstein]

Dear Sirs

Many people believe the Vostok to be alu covered in hexagons.
But on some photos the Vostok cannot be pure white, rather a whitish-silver. Some photos show the Vostok to be in green-brown. Is this whitish looking surface (fiberglass?) a protection cover for the alu hexagons? Like the blue cover on Apollos (prior to start!) to protect the mylar srtipes. What about the green-brown Vostoks? Is it a cover too? See please Tereshkovas Vostok on landing site/training? Who is able to solve this problems?

Many thanks  in advance

Max

[Pavel]

This different ships

Vostok-1K
http://www.npointercos.jp/images/Energia2007ssIMG_9251.jpg
http://d.foto.radikal.ru/0606/ceff128c2c83.jpg

Vostok
http://photofile.ru/photo/ppa/95035070/large/96230444.gif

Vosсhod
http://www.npointercos.jp/images/Energia2006ssIMG_0438.jpg
http://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/tvorch-nasl-kor/06.jpg

[Dude]

http://www.spacephotos.ru/

fotos #027948, #027949,....

[Pavel]

Visible hexagons