Show off your reenactment helmets!

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

Somebody PLEASE post a helmet!

[Peiper]

Ok Sheikh lol

@ peip wich ral numbers did you used for your camo helmet?

Anyway Mooyman, sorry not to answer your post
I will find out the ral numbers but dont know them off
hand but two of the colours are from Sof, the German
"dark grey" and "field-grey" the other three colours,
"dark green", "grass green" and "rusty- brown were from
the modellers shop, as i say dont know the RAL no's off hand
will find out though, i tried to emulate the colours that would
be used and would be about in 44 perhaps in a tank workshop
etc where soldiers would get there kit sprayed up in tank colours
for a favour or packet of smokes lol, although i might add a "proper"
decal rather than the hand painted one and may decide to add a few
streaks of "ordnance tan", what do you reckon??

Regards Pipes

[Sturmgeist]

Less detailed from before, Summer 2010:

(Manicured grass kills it, Litzen have since been changed)

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[Peiper]

Nice lids kamerad

Regards Pipes

[erikbozwo2]

Let's get back to showing off with helmets, as the topicname suggests. Sturmgeist, nice plain m42's, I like the ghost mud appearance.

Here are my own helmets after about 2 years of use combined.




This one was my 3rd helmet, but the only one I never really could part with. The mud is still the mud I put on it at Beltring, 1.5 year ago.




My SD m40. The paint is actually Brush applied and hand mixed, decal from decalhelmet.com ( best choice imo )

[Jonny]

erikbozwo2 they are real crackers! What liner is in these? Where could I get one? There is too much reproduction rubbish out there that looks nothing like the real ones.

Thanks in advance

[erikbozwo2]

Jonny, there is a Checoslovakian guy on the Ciney fair that sells them for about 25 euro's. But if you'd really want to get your hands on a nice liner, google Vit Zemanek. He has the perfect ones!

[Jonny]

Jonny, there is a Checoslovakian guy on the Ciney fair that sells them for about 25 euro's. But if you'd really want to get your hands on a nice liner, google Vit Zemanek. He has the perfect ones!

I will check them out!

Thanks!

[Mooyman]

German leatherwork is pretty good from Vit Zamenek.
But the leather from his liners are slightly thinner then the ones from thuringen militaria.
That's why i prefer "thuringen".
If you sweat with Vit's liners your skull stretch the vingers easily til your skull reached
the top of the helmet...but that all depends howe much you sweat.

@Erik,nice lid with a field repaired splitpin(nice detail)..... for a regulair werhmacht impression?

@Peip Alot is possible with camo.I have seen many helmets between a candy-bar
and a gucci...but i would start with sandelgelb as a base.Then it's up to you if you want
to make a 3 or 2 tone helmet.
So with tan i would not use more then 3 colours..

[Jonny]

Hey guys! thanks for the feedback..

I cant seem to find the thuringen militaria reproduction stuff...

What about decent original shells? I want to get a few, where is the best priced place to pick them up? I suppose semi relics could be restored.


Thanks in advance..

[feldman]

Try Vit Zemanek for shells

http://stores.ebay.com/CONTINENTALMILIT ... id=8839367

[GRFJ]

Thuringen doesn't have a repro section anymore.

For shells except Vit, as feldman said, I also look at http://www.regiment-militaria.com/

[erikbozwo2]

@Erik,nice lid with a field repaired splitpin(nice detail)..... for a regulair werhmacht impression?

Nope, made that based on an original helmet for an FJR6 Impression on a helmet that surfaced 5 years ago in ex-FJR6 housing.

The FJR6 had a typical 2 tone camo that was applied in Normandy. Based on a light "Sandgelb" colour and topped off with green. I will show some original examples:



Later in the war FJ's where seen wearing m42's and army gasmask canisters.

[Max]

New paint for my SS-VT impression, it's not yet finished. I love it.

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

Yes, that definitely looks good. What kind of paint did you use?