I am 56 and just bought my first American helmet thanks to the 101 video you made. That gave me enough courage to invest in the hobby. I will email some photos of the helmet soon. I hope you make a 101 video on visor caps, since I also bought one of those to have next to the helmet. thank you for the good information and for advising people to leave paint and decals alone. Big win there.
this is a funny hobby/obsession/study of and preservation of history. My father bought me my first German helmet when i was 12 or so. I still have it and I am 56 now. I had a number of helmets which I sold at 17...and regretted it. Rewind to a few years ago and the bug bit hard and now I have a modest collection of German helmets from WW1, WW2 and West German M40/53 both textured and not. A vintage Bulgarian WW2 M36B thrown in and Spanish etc. I have managed to obtain the correct belt buckle for each one. I love the study of history (I have a degree in it) particularly the machinations of 'modern Europe' in the 20 century. Owning a piece of history (albeit brief in the grand scheme of things) is wonderful and very rewarding and hopefully it helps us to remember not to repeat the mistakes and evil deeds of the past. Stay well everybody.
just came across this i know it 9 months ago but it was a very interesting video so a new sub i normally collect iron crosses Russian front wound badges but got my self 2 German helmets m40 and a m42 so i learnt a few things watching this many thanks
Thanks for putting this together! I have a bunch of battle damaged relic helmets and it’s fun to look at them and see the differences and what they mean!
your transitional stahlhelm is actually an austrian m16 helmet. you can tell by the placement of the chinstrap rivet further up on the skirt. actually have seen quite a few autrian transitionals so i wonder if they adopted a large stock of them after the anschluss or maybe theyre from austrian personal drafted into the wehrmacht.
Thanks for the great video. I've recently started collecting helmets recently (mostly ComBloc) and have discovered another variation that I'm sure you have seen. These would be the Finnish M40 and later updated M40/55. These were supposedly either made by the Germans for Finland, or made on German machinery that was sold to the Finns. I have several of these that I bought from IMA. They are selling them for around $50 and I am very happy with mine. And no I will not be refurbishing them with German paint and decals- they are already historical in that they saw combat during the Winter War and the Continuation War. Keep up with the great videos and the corny jokes (I always get a laugh from your vids!).
They did have these helmet in smaller numbers- but they were used by the Nationalist Chinese- (who were driven from power) so these helmets are in fact quite rare and highly sought after by collectors.
@@militarycollectiblesshop thanks for replying! I had hoped in some universe that they were actually being sold on sites like wish! 😆 I have an aluminium ‘pepper pot’ vent pattern, did you mention they are M 1936 ?
the poice didnt use the m34 not this model obly the edelstahlhelm model of the m34 the ones without comb and holes where becouse of the aluminum shortige
