THE HELMET THREAD

Vietnam era OPFOR liner with yellow triangles.



Vietnam era Paratrooper helmet with Airborne Artillery grafiti on side.



Vietnam era MP helmet. Helmet is from the 543rd MP Co. which was stationed in Panama. Helmet is from the 1950's with a 1960 dated liner. Both helmet and liner are painted.

With Mitchell cover



Helmet and liner

1950's OPFOR plastic helmet and modified liner.

Liner is modified by puting a basic web system, removing teats for leather chin strap, and installing a web strap from a M24 haversack. Helmet itself is an orange thin plastic of the type once used to make haloween masks and then painted gray with OPFOR green and white logo hand painted.

WW2 red Range helmet liner(as worn by crews on firing range)




Early Reyon liner. Un-marked liner with Reyon webbing. Early model has fixed leather chin strap and square washers.



Later Reyon liner. Made by Westinghouse. Has A washers and chin strap rivets. Still takes the snap in sweatband.

Russian helmets.

SSh-39 Early high rivet type.



Model 40 low rivet pattern. (dated 1955)



British Mk II. 1941 dated



ARVN Tiger Brigade liner

German M-35 double decal in Normandy camo.



German Afrika Korps pith helmet. Indian made British used and German captured and re-used.



Japanese helmet

Outstanding collection of M1's , all of them absolute gems. I find the OPFOR lids particularly interesting as I've never seen anything close to yours in the UK.

I hope this is the start of many more of your lid collection appearing here,it keeps this section fresh.

Cheers Mate.

I think he deserves a thread all of his own

Not sure if this is a Model 85 or if that is the date.

Good think for collectors is that there have been 6 of these on Ebay UK(this isnt one of them) in the last week so looks as if a batch have been released.Bad news is they were snapped up straight away-same person maybe???

All i need now is the elusive cover for it

Sorry if i am being dumb but how do you attach one of these properly?

All there is is a very strong elastic around the base so if you pull it over the rim of the helmet it covers your forehead and eyes and if you dont pull it over the rim it slides up over the top of the helmet???

Thanks

This is an early CGF TC-2000 helemt. According to the inner label, the date of manufacture is 5-18-2001. The pads and chin straps are the proper black color for the time it was made. The chin strap looks gray, but it is black and appears gray because of heavy usage. The inside of the helmet has an odd odor. Not exactly sure how to describe it, but to me it smells like a burnt house.

The helmet appears to have had a field modification to the rear. One screw is missing and the helmet strap is help together with a zip tie. In the past, I have seen ACH's that have had problems with the suspenion screws not wanting to grab/hold. I'm assuming this zip tie may be a quick fix for that problem.

On top of the helmet is a screw. I can see no reason for it to be there. Never seen this before. Does anyone have any clues on that?






Back. Note the zip tie in one of the screw holes.


Close up of the zip tie.