A Few New Helmets For The Kid
Article about: Here are a few helmets that I’ve been collecting up for my son’s upcoming birthday, he should be quite surprise. Front are the common East German M54 and a Swiss M1918, not sure if it’s a /4
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Re: A Few New Helmets For The Kid
Hi Russ.
You've got a nice set of tin lids there for your boy.
Ref: the British Mk4, the chin strap is accurate for it, as is the colour.
During my service I saw them painted in every colour from bronze green to khaki brown to black, both solid colours and camouflage patterned!
Regards etc
Ian D
AKA: Jimpy
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Re: A Few New Helmets For The Kid
Nice lids for his birthday, he should really like them. By the way, my birthday is in August :-) John
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Re: A Few New Helmets For The Kid
Might seem to be a silly question, but can anyone tell me which is the front and which is the back of the Portuguese M1916 helmet? There is no emblem visible to mark the front and no liner. No matter how I look at it, I see no distict feature that would make one and or the other the front or back. From what I can tell, not too many of these lids around and hard to even find a photo of one on the net.
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Re: A Few New Helmets For The Kid
judging by the placement of the air vents and shape of the visor, I think the front of the helmet should be with the shorter visor in the front and the air vents forward position
the other way looks more like the back to me
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Re: A Few New Helmets For The Kid
Thanks for the input BG, will have to drag it back out of the box, set it down and take a real close look at it. Not much info floating around regarding the WWI Portugues helmet, assuming they are reasonably rare as they seem hard enough to come by. Anyone has any info on this helmet they would like to share, it would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Russ
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