Show off your reenactment helmets!

[Ziggy]

Those are some nice helmets!

Does anyone have a RAL code for apple green, though?

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

Sorry, covered before.. Does not exist.

[dog green 1]

Those are some nice helmets!

Does anyone have a RAL code for apple green, though?

I think RAL 6001 is supposed to be close.

[dagda]

I would like to salute our FJ meister of ware and tear FJR6 kompanie 9 's meister Pauli

Danke

Who does alot of his own research and development and the stuff he does is great!!

[pzrwest]

Here are a couple pics of my repro M35 helmet for KM Koastal Artillery un-weathered. The decals are dry transfer type alot better than than the water-slide type

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

Looks very good Harold! The color is spot on, what did you use?

[pzrwest]

The paint was some I had blended by an auto paint store locally. I took an original M35 shell into the store and the paint guy made up the paint by eye and I told him to lighten it some as the original paint had darkened some over the years. I doubt I would ever get a match like that again guess it was a case of pure luck and his years of blending paint. This was the last of the paint I had blended it had sat in the can for at least 10 years I was lucky it was still good

[Wolfie]

[Wolfie]

How about a thin whitewash and then wipe off / down?

Or kick it around a stone driveway (like the stones in the pic of my M40)?

[Grabenkater]

That helmet is a prime canidate for a camo scheme, to hide all of the rust pits.

[Wolfie]

That helmet is a prime canidate for a camo scheme, to hide all of the rust pits.

Good idea. Use sand like on my M40 above.

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

No thanks, I've already done that before, then I sanded off the camo scheme again because I didn't like it. This is supposed to be a 1941 reissue. A camo M42 will come later.

[Bergführer]

My early war M18 (org shell)

- after cleaning


- here we go!

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

Need.... Paint.... Code.. Now...!!! That thing is porn with a chinstrap!

[Bergführer]

I really wish to have it's code and paste it here but it will be really hard - why? I made this paint by myself. First I took my org M40 shell to the paint shop and spent 1h to take something that will be close to it and then I spent next 3 days adding black and white to it to get the proper color. If you can wait a little I will paint some small item with it and then I'll go to my shop again and try to find this one on the list and then put this number here (if it exsists on any list, they had more than five of them so maybe...)