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06-24-2016 02:49 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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Bad decal on a repainted relic helmet
Fortune favors the brave 644th td
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look at the holes of rust...
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As a "stinker" goes this is a real big cheese. !! Leave it well alone, a crappy decal of the poorest order. Leon.
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The sanding marks that go under the decal impressed me the most.... Fail#1. Then they went to the trouble of distressing the eagle where the rust pits were ( with a scalpel probably ) and bodged that..... Fail#2.
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
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Danmark
The sanding marks that go under the decal impressed me the most.... Fail#1. Then they went to the trouble of distressing the eagle where the rust pits were ( with a scalpel probably ) and bodged that..... Fail#2.
Yep, it's nasty alright for all the reasons already given but what really worries me is that this is a clear attempt to deceive.
If it were a restoration the rust pits would have been resolved, the helmet would be properly re-painted and a museum standard repro decal used. That would still be non-original but an honest restoration. Most collectors would still disapprove though.
This has been treated in such a way (albeit to a poor standard) as to replicate the passage of time and patina build up AFTER it's service life. This is not honest and is meant to "make a silk purse out of a sows ear".
It's a good thing that whoever did this is on the clumsy side of talentless!
Do not buy it even if it is super-cheap.
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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