Look What's Under the OD Paint!
Article about: nice lid,right now im going to look stupid but whats the best method for removing top layers like this without removing whats original underneath?cheers dave.
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Re: Look What's Under the OD Paint!
Haven’t a clue! but you have done a good job . I would have thought it would have taken longer than that to get the top layer of paint of, well done!
There are so many different paint jobs on these helmets . This one might be another tough one for anyone to guess at.
All the best with it.
Rod
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Re: Look What's Under the OD Paint!
the UN used blue painted m1s early on that or its a navy one
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Thanks Rod, yea it went pretty fast at first but the remaining work is going to go SLOOOOOOOOW! I hope to get several hours this weekend to work on it, if any good progress is made I'll snap a few more photos.
KingTigerTank, yes, US was one of my thoughts although I have never seen the blue/red combination on anything and I know the Navy is so typical for "custom" paint schemes so that was my first assumption. I'll keep snooping around until I figure it out...or it will just sit up on the shelf un-identified with a couple others we have.
Russ
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Re: Look What's Under the OD Paint!
Could be some sort of Navy helmet with some sort of marking pattern for flight deck or possibly a loading crew member. Perhaps dock workers may have used it also. It could also come from cadre of a particular training site.
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Any one of those is a possibility Denfly. I've been doing some digging and have come up with nothing, might be specific to one particular command (ship) and we'll never really know. I looked for UN examples but have yet to find one. I've done quite a bit more work on stripping off the OD paint. It's not done yet but it's starting to come around. I will snap a few photos tomorrow maybe and post.
Russ
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Re: Look What's Under the OD Paint!
looks good mate i would leave now as you can clearly see what it was.
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Re: Look What's Under the OD Paint!
Thanks Nick, not going to do much more to it.......almost ready to stick up on the shelf (or in the closet..LOL)
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