making a helmet cover

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poorcol1964
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making a helmet cover

Post by poorcol1964 »

hi ,
can anyone help ?
i want to make a m36 helmet cover out of some spare cloth i have , does anyone have a cutting pattern or can show me a link for one please ?

ps. please don't bother to answer this topic if your only advice is to tell me to buy one as there are plenty to be had , thanks
Sheikh Al Stranghi
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Re: making a helmet cover

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What I did, was buy a really shitty repro cover for a few coins, take that apart and trace the pattern over on a piece of original zeltbahn scrap material. Worked beautifully and now you can't tell it's repro.
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Enigma
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Re: making a helmet cover

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Could anyone post scanned images???
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