THE HELMET THREAD

Oh James, I think I just fell in love with your Frenchie

Seriously Love the patina on the shell, and the colonial RF badge is superb!!!!

Also loving the Dutch and Polish lids mate, keep em' coming ,things are quiet from my lid collection, due to space,money etc, but I will continue to enjoy what you share with us here!!!!!

Gulf91 wrote:Thanks. SA stuff not my thing really but couldnt resist along with the German M35 ive recently bought-certainly coundlt afford it and shouldnt have bought either but hey ho,a Christmas present to myself I guess

Absolutely mate, crimble pressie's to yourself are the best!

cheers gary ,i knew you'd love the m15 she's a little beaut ,im waiting on a nice polish wz50 allthough its not an iraqi issue its still a nice one cheers james

Shell original and repainted by the previous owner in an (apparently) exact match to traces of the original paint-early/pre war so called Apple Green??

Liner band original early reinforced type with squared off chinstrap fittings. The leather itself baffles me to be honest as it isnt the usual red Norgi reline but has the larger non German size stamped into it plus not 100% sure about the regiment stamps on the underside of the liner leather either but still like it anyway.

very nice gulf thanks for showing ,this is what the helmet threads all about showing great lids i love the swaztica ink stamp on the liner

ive been fooling around scrimming up my b826 and pasgt with some spare bits and pieces

gulf the m35 heer stahlhelm has been tastefully refurbished i like the fact an original shell has been used and yes your correct apple green do you own any more stahlhelms ?,the liner reminds me of the czech vz 53's but the stamp contradicts this relic stahlhelms are more within my field of expertise sorry i cant help more

jaycee wrote:gulf the m35 heer stahlhelm has been tastefully refurbished i like the fact an original shell has been used and yes your correct apple green do you own any more stahlhelms ?,the liner reminds me of the czech vz 53's but the stamp contradicts this relic stahlhelms are more within my field of expertise sorry i cant help more

All in all would say without checking that I have around 20 WW2 Stahlhelms,mix of repro and original but none unfortunately all original(way beyond my budget).

Also have 3 or 4 repro M38 Falschirmjager helmets as well.

Yep,the liner leather sure is a mystery to me.

Cheers

crikey gulf you are one serious lid collector ,you put my modest collection in the shade i would love to see a group photo of all the stahlhelms lined up really i would ;there my favorite lid apart from my soviet ssh 36 ive totalled up my lid collection and only have around 60 so im small fry compared to you cheers james

jaycee wrote:crikey gulf you are one serious lid collector ,you put my modest collection in the shade i would love to see a group photo of all the stahlhelms lined up really i would ;there my favorite lid apart from my soviet ssh 36 ive totalled up my lid collection and only have around 60 so im small fry compared to you cheers james

Thanks James,believe it or not collect(and always have done) on a very very tight budget due to a fairly low paid job.

Started off many many moons ago only collecting headgear but got the bug and now unfortunately am into everything but seriously need to think about cutting down next year as its getting out of hand.

As I have stuff everywhere around the house in is pretty much impossible to get all my German helmets together but will try someday to get a group pic.

ok gulf if you ever get the opportunity to group shot them stahlhelms that would be great but no worries ,i forgot to post a picture of my french otan this is the net you supplied ,suits it quite well i thought cheers james

Looks good James.

Heres one,original M42 shell-CKL66,everything else repro-bought as is.

Also seeing as bloody Photobucket is constantly changing(for the worse)can anybody please let me know what I need to do or how to change the pic size as sick and tired of all my pics being chopped-Thanks

very nice m42 gulf im liking the camo paint thanks for showing ,yeah i am really pleased with otan and how it turned out ,i decided to go back to the old photobucket format it gives you the option if you dont like the new layout ,i cant help but see the similarities from the m42 to the b826 also i picked up a pasgt woodland cover but i believe it had been used for paint ball due to the extra colouration

Aha,now gone back to the older version of Photobucket what size do the pics need to be please?

Thanks

mine pics only show up in percent mine are 77% i cant seem to find details on the pixel sizes

i think its 800 x 600 pixels

struggling with image host again but managed this one photo of my latest warsaw pact pickup a polish wz 50

Fantastic editions to this thread Gulf and James.I look forward to seeing more of your excellent lids in 2013!!


Hope you both have a happy helmet new year

Cheers and hope everyone has a great 2013.

thanks gary all the best to you too ,all the best gulf ill raise a wee dram to you both tonight

jaycee wrote:thanks gary all the best to you too ,all the best gulf ill raise a wee dram to you both tonight

Cheers James.

Im still in bah humbug mood and very unlike myself who likes a pint or 10 followed by a few JDs Im not budging tonight so have a good one

I HATE Photobucket SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Much-wont now allow me to go back to the old version so looks like iM stuck with the new awful shitty version

they keep changing it around im now back on the new version again i cant win kncxddfzkcvxxvn d(hitting head on keyboard) i doubt i will venture out tonight especially into rhyl town center .i'll probably be in bed by 8pm then wide awake when the idiots let there stash of explosives loose on the world

jaycee wrote:they keep changing it around im now back on the new version again i cant win kncxddfzkcvxxvn d(hitting head on keyboard) i doubt i will venture out tonight especially into rhyl town center .i'll probably be in bed by 8pm then wide awake when the idiots let there stash of explosives loose on the world

Same here.

Hmm,is it just a sign of getting old(er) as once I hit 40 I turned even more miserable and grumpy than I already was,thought life was supposed to start at 40!!!!