An interesting M42 Arrived today

[KradSpam]

maybe I need something else .....

Jason

Of course!

I must admit I have a soft spot for SE/hkp lids too, I think Quist are my favourite though

[VolksJager]

Goody another SE/hkp lover. I have a couple of them now and really love them. Shouldn't have sold my SE M35 DD lufty though...

Jason

[KradSpam]

This is the only SE I have, and have ever had. Handled a good few though, they have a nice subtle shape difference

https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/steel...rst-km-161254/

[WOODSNAKE]

Sweet looking lid Jase any thoughts on the colour scheme? and can't say that ive ever seen a spliced liner before ? is that where the rolls ofleather are joined in manufacture or has it been adapted to suit the Shell?
Phill

[VolksJager]

I remember that one Andy, she is a nice one. I have this one and the lufty M40 in my avatar. I will have to post some of my older lids actually, might have left out one or two

[Danmark]

Its a manufacturing thing Phill - "Vaste not, Vont not" said uncle Adolf ( in one of his non-manic moments )

[VolksJager]

Thanks Phill, well I was always thinking Mediterranean theatre but could be anywhere really. The spliced liner was a factory join in manufacture due to shortage in supplies. I had read that the German only ever spliced during the war with matching leather colours but I have also see pics of period helmets with splices in non matching leather so not sure on that. Still it was nicely done.

Jason

[francis006]

It looks to have been painted inside and outside with this mustard green color ? For info , some decades ago a batch of post war mustard green reissue helmets was avaliable along with the known all tan batch (from eastern countries), some of these mustard green helmets still with decals under .

[James C]

very nice example