No Decal M42 - Chocolate Brown - ckl 62 - Lot # 27(4?)2
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No Decal M42 - Chocolate Brown - ckl 62 - Lot # 27(4?)2
Here's one you don't see too often, a CHOCOLATE BROWN combat helmet. I have only seen a few in all my years of collecting. A close friend is selling off his advanced collection and had 2 such examples, this one and a second, with a net (!) that I will post in the near future. This one is a ckl62, with a lot number of 27(4?)2, complete with a pig skin liner and chinstrap. The tongues of the size 55 liner are blackened and stiff, burned(?), blood rotted(?), I don't know. The shell is brown inside and out and judging from the finish, I suspect it left the factory this color. The exterior of the shell has quite noticeable "scaling", a condition I have seen far more often on EF shells. I don't know much about metallurgy, but if I recall correctly there is a thread in this forum about scaling, which, I believe, has something to do with the quenching process during the production of the steel sheets used to manufacture the steel shell of the helmet. Many say that these brown helmets where worn by the mid to late War combat units of the FHH. Anyway, here it is. Hope you like it. Jim G.
Interesting helmet. I have one too that I've owned for a few years. I always called it my poor man's FHH. Mine is an hkp64 with batch number 4376. Factory painted brown inside and out just like yours, with no evidence of any other paint underneath.
I keep returning to view your great helmet.
I bought the Brian Ice Ebook "Late War Helmets Of The Third Reich Thale" a while ago and there is a similar one in it.
I like the ckl dimple in its right cheek,even the rare brown M42 gets one!
Thanks also for the information on Scaling which I have seen under paint but I had thought was patches of an older paint under another coat.
Nice to view this rare helmet and compare it with
progressively rushed and flawed,later war M42'S.
more a mid war than a late war example, helmets with this lot nr were still receiving decals.
Interesting helmet , hopefully some day we will know for sure why these are painted the way they are.
No Decal M42 - Chocolate Brown - ckl 62 - Lot # 27(4?)2
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