Hi guys.
I have always liked a relic, something that has been there to the bitter end. I am fussy though and like my relics to be on the salty side, presentable and not a rusty blob of a thing that no one is really sure what it was. There lays the problem. Most items have been in the ground 70 years plus and tin worm or chemical reaction have done their best to return the item back to it’s original ore.
I have been after a good relic helmet for some time and there have been plenty coming up on ebay etc. Unfortunately most resemble something you would strain your vegetables through and in danger of total collapse any time soon. So I got thinking, what element would be the most kind to a relic. Water, air or soil? Obviously air is no good. Soil depending on many conditions can preserve things reasonably well. Water though seems the most stable or predictable. Salt water would be a disaster for steel, river water slightly better but how about swamp water with very low oxygen and lots of silt?

Enter the swamp found Luftwaffe M42…………