I too had doubts about the badge belonging to the helmet, it looked a slightly different shade of blue to me but i'm in no doubt now!...
I too had doubts about the badge belonging to the helmet, it looked a slightly different shade of blue to me but i'm in no doubt now!...
I read that the badges for these helmets where not always made in the same factory as the helmets. There were 8 manufacturers that I have read about who all used different shades of horizon blue and so if you see a helmet with original factory paint there will be on occasions a discrepancy in the shades between badge and helmet. The main reason you see more helmets with the same colour for badge and helmet is because they have recieved a field/depot repaint. The reason that you see dust and a little rust behind the badge on my helmet is, it never recieved a repaint so the gaps between helmet and badge were never sealed.
A nice hard to find model. Nice catch.
Just been looking at your engineer helmet and then I spotted this cracker. Very, very nice indeed.
Tony
Which cracker is that? No picture!by ynot
I mean Ian's medic helmet at the the start of this thread, for me it's a cracker and better than his French engineer's helmet.
He meant I'm a cracker Harry
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