battlefield relics collection

**Zeller** · 10-19-2009, 07:05 AM

hello stuka, what is that yellowish colour on the heer buckles?

**stuka f** · 10-19-2009, 07:16 AM

Hey zeller.
that are restorations I started, but never finished.
I only did one completely up to now.
I can not find the pictures right now, but I did posted them previously in a other treath.
I keep on searching.

**Zeller** · 10-19-2009, 07:22 AM

Thanks!

**stuka f** · 10-19-2009, 07:38 AM

Here is how the fifth from above in the left row looked before being restored.
Apparently I did a other one, the 4 th from above in the middel row seem more or less finished as well.

**Zeller** · 10-19-2009, 07:43 AM

thats interesting! when you have time can you post a "then&now" of that buckle?
I am also interested in your restoratin technique

**stuka f** · 10-19-2009, 08:26 AM

by Zeller

thats interesting! when you have time can you post a "then&now" of that buckle?
I am also interested in your restoratin technique

I am working on a new one and making a step by step repport, becouse finding the previous one will take me forever.
Thise is the one I am working on.

**stuka f** · 10-19-2009, 08:44 AM

I forgot to thank you ,zeller, for your intrest!! Because what I do is not appreciated by much in thise particulary collectors society!
I have done a lot of restaurations in other collectors subjects.
Pottery, ceramics , porcelain and antique glassware were the main and the reason I started to learn those technics more then 15 years ago.
And came to a stage where I do restore lots of things.
Textile and paper are the only I do not do, however I am thinking of starting to learn also those procedees, when ever I got time.
But first I want to learn to play guitare!!!

Just a silly thing that came over me a few weeks ago!

One is never to old to learn.

Even thise forum makes me go to sleep every night; less dumb then the day before!

**Zeller** · 10-19-2009, 08:49 AM

I like to restore items too, and like you, not only in the collecting fields. I feel like I am preserving time...

Usually I prefer mild cleaning/restoration but when the item is rust or damaged beyond my acceptable taste, I indulge in heavier restorations.

I am working now on a M43 head, which was heavily battered and rust. I am rebuilding the missing parts with liquid metal,rust powder and glue and I am considering to improve the final result with a layer of paint. But I am still looking for the correct "RAL" paint for the hand granaten. Anyone knows that?

**stuka f** · 10-19-2009, 08:53 AM

Sorry fritztk for taking over your treath.
But here is what to expect from your postman.
It will come in a brown bubbled-wrapped enveloppe.

**stuka f** · 10-19-2009, 08:57 AM

by Zeller

I like to restore items too, and like you, not only in the collecting fields. I feel like I am preserving time...

Usually I prefer mild cleaning/restoration but when the item is rust or damaged beyond my acceptable taste, I indulge in heavier restorations.

I am working now on a M43 head, which was heavily battered and rust. I am rebuilding the missing parts with liquid metal,rust powder and glue and I am considering to improve the final result with a layer of paint. But I am still looking for the correct "RAL" paint for the hand granaten. Anyone knows that?

It is a 1 in a million chance to find "a" RAL color that suites a restoration.
I (well in fact my wife) make my own colors.