It’s not a coincidence that you took that many pics. When she passed us in the Solent, I took a whole bunch of pictures too, more than of any other ship (except for our neighbour HMS Ocean maybe).

I think the question is wether the decks were something like very dark brown or indeed dark grey. I asked because I’m building a model. She’s nearing completion, with dark grey main deck for now (I will most likely not change it if it’s proven wrong, but at least I would know it was wrong then) all the other decks are generally red as they normally are on this class. Main deck seems to differ on several of them.

Have you noticed how much she differs from the “normal” initial 7 Udaloy class?
First of all there is the broader helicopter deck, but something not noticed by many, is the “new box” just behind the aft Kinzhal launchers on top of the hangar. That box seems to carry some antenna and other pieces on top of it. There is also that parabola antenna next to the hangar on port side, maybe on starboard side too, it looks the same as the one found on the later Sovremennys, but I don’t have a clue what they serve for… Maybe internet or communications??? Strangely those antennae aren’t covered by the regular dome…