M15 Adrian helmet

**Rob L** · 09-14-2013, 09:33 PM

Hi guys. Here is my little M15 Adrian helmet, by little I mean very small. My god some certainly had small heads, this looks silly next to a 64 sized M16 German helmet.

**reneblacky** · 09-14-2013, 10:04 PM

Nice helmet there, mine's a tiny size too

**Rob L** · 09-14-2013, 10:15 PM

Wow she's beautiful, very nice. I was going to put a veterans plate on mine but the size of plates and helmets I'm unsure about and there again i couldn't bring myself to do it to an original.

**reneblacky** · 09-14-2013, 10:22 PM

by Rob L

Wow she's beautiful, very nice. I was going to put a veterans plate on mine but the size of plates and helmets I'm unsure about and there again i couldn't bring myself to do it to an original.

Cheers Rob, may I ask a silly question?---- what's a veterans plate?

**Rob L** · 09-14-2013, 10:29 PM

Not silly at all. They say they were made out of the old artillery cases from the Germans. I don't really know too much about these to be honest and haven't really seen too many.

**reneblacky** · 09-15-2013, 12:10 AM

Cheers Mate, I'd leave your one alone as it's in superb condition

**maximus71** · 09-15-2013, 12:57 AM

Nice original helmet, I love the charecter that these posess, the first modern steel combat helmet, They wore those veterans plates in parades after the war I believe.

**Rob L** · 09-15-2013, 06:05 AM

They are very nice helmet and certainly have a character look that almost makes them seem older than the great war. I'd hate to get hit in the side with shrapnel with the size of these. I did read head injuries went up as a result of the m15 because less become fatalities when hit and 4 part contruction worked against them.

**Glenn66** · 11-09-2013, 03:30 PM

How do the leather liners attach to the shells in these? The M15 that just arrived to me has the liner loose and I can't figure out how it would have attached, I mean the corrugated alloy sheets I can see have the 2 metals pins to hold them in place but how does the leather attach to that (if at all)?

**Rob L** · 11-29-2013, 07:33 AM

Hi Glenn66

Sorry for the late reply. I've since parted ways with my M15 & M26. To be honest I'm not sure how they go in. That was the one thing that had me when I first looked into mine with the metal packer insert type things? Certainly not really any real projection with the gap from helmet shell to head.