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11-25-2012 09:14 PM
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
Hi,i'm looking at this decal and thinking that the small black dots all over it look printed and not from wear? I may be wrong but it just does not seem quite right to me. The decal also looks quite raised against the level of the steel with an unusual "white" edge to it.It certainly is of the ET style but i'm not keen, sorry.
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
Not a bad looking helmet IMO. As for the LOT number i can see in t data base that if it indeed is a it should be a SD SS helmet. The only other number i can come up with is a 2529. This is the only two ckl numbers ending on 29. 2529 is a SD Heer. As far as the paint goes i don't think it looks bad. Liner pins can loosen over time. Let's get some more opinions on this
I also have a reissue 62 with 54 liner. They are damn small!
Regards, Lars
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
Interesting Lars,what do you make of the chinstrap?I'm not to happy with that either myself,it just appears to me to be too "clean" for a cammo lid and i still keep looking at how raised that decal is.
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
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FALLSCHIRMJAGER
Hi,i'm looking at this decal and thinking that the small black dots all over it look printed and not from wear? I may be wrong but it just does not seem quite right to me. The decal also looks quite raised against the level of the steel with an unusual "white" edge to it.It certainly is of the ET style but i'm not keen, sorry.
If LOT number 2529 is the actual number it fits the bill as a SD Heer. Fakers normally doesn't pay much attention to LOT numbers. If it's not 2529 it's a SD SS, 3029. Most decals have a "white" background, visible on especially relic lids. Could that be what we can see round the edge perhaps?
Regards, Lars
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
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FALLSCHIRMJAGER
Interesting Lars,what do you make of the chinstrap?I'm not to happy with that either myself,it just appears to me to be too "clean" for a cammo lid and i still keep looking at how raised that decal is.
Maybe the light? Maybe Mark can tell us if it looks "sticker" like and/or take some pic at an angle? Also i am not a guru on decals.
Regards, Lars
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
Hi Mark,
These quintessential 'Normandy 3 colour' jobbies are a minefield IMO....... I like the overall wear, patina, liner etc... but like FJ the decal seems a little odd to me ( and by Summer 1944 should not have been on there ) Has it been added later?? I don't know but it fits in with the wear so if it has, then the whole colour scheme is put in doubt.
For what it's worth, I would have popped too if the price was good - sometimes you have to given the circumstances. My 'fails' have not set me back too much so the pain is/was bearable when the news was broken to me.
Regards, Dan
" I'm putting off procrastination until next week "
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
I would like to address the question of the spotting if you enlarge image one and look at the black area of the shield and compare it to the eagle you will see that the spotting is carried on through the hole decal and these seem to be caused from the texture on the helmet IMO
This is why I posted it for other opinions I pretend to be no expert.
Regards Mark K
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Re: Heer S/D M-42 Normandy Camo Opinions please
Mmmm,i get your point Lars,but surely if this lid had been relic the paint work would not be up to this standard?I am not saying i am right by any means but if i were parting with my money for this one i'm not sure i would be convinced i had done the right thing.
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