I'm building U-505 myself in 1/72. At time of capture she was very heavily weathered, but color photo's clearly show the conning tower to be blauschwarz 58.2 and the upper hull blaugrau 58.1. The same scheme as U-805, also shown in allied color photos.

I'm amazed the U-505 muesum painted her the wrong colors after all the expense of restiration and the building!

Regards,

Scott