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After finishing the preliminary clean-up I polished out the scratches, and then I set about installing the two air lines which were actually lengths of car brake pipe. A bracket was then fashioned to clamp the pipes to the upright portion of the grip.The Harvard spade grip differs from that used by RAF fighters, there being no provision for a brake lever, so that was one job less to do. I then installed the firing button and painted the grip and allowed it to dry before distressing the paintwork… on reflection I might have gone over the top with this. The next job was the grip covering. I tried whipping the grip with cord and then painted it black, but somehow it didn’t look right. After some experimenting on a piece of tube I decided to cover the alloy in black Milliput resin putty, and then wrap string around it haphazardly. After removing the string I repeated the process, removed the string… and then went over the whole lot with a soft brush and water to remove any unwanted marks from strands of string. After everything had dried I went over the brass ‘fire’ button with gun blue cream to dull it down a bit, and the dried putty was sanded down with fine wet & dry. The end result isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t look too bad. All that remains to be done is to reattach the grip to the control column.
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I´ve come across this, certainly odd looking helmet, which the seller claims to be an Danish Resistance helmet.
Its an ET 66, with the Lotnr. 4574, so its in the ND range, probably produced arround 1944. The liner seems original to me, with the chinstrap probably original aswell, although i dont really have knowledge about these.
The grey paint i can see, looks original to me, although its hard to determine. The inside shows a bit of rust, but it lools unmolested at first glance.
Then we have the top layer, a darker red and a big, white cross above, both looks like it was applied with a brush, the paint has come of in quite a few places, and seems to have a age to it, but i´m too fresh in the hobby and to unexperienced to definitly make any judgement about that.
I have done a bit of research, and i´ve found quite a few german helmets captured by the danish resistance, but none of the was painted in this manner, all had danish flags in the decal area, and only was was additionally painted red. I have found one similar paintwork, but that was on an original Danish helmet, with a far stronger and thicker layer of paint, but in the same fashion.
So i ask you, what do you think about it? Just a modern mockup, or a real piece of history? Any opinions and help would be greatly appreciated, as always!
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