To bad most of the pics are gone on this thread.

I do love that Hess Felt !!!!!

Nice Sax !

The one posted on ebay has the inside skull painted black.

Wonder if that helmet made it to the fire station or done post war.

Wow a nice set up. My husband Rod is thinking of that for a bunker which is to be part of the 100 ft shed. He already has four big sheds to house his guns and tanks, one bunker to house the helmets and uniform and small gears. And a tiny house to house me. Such is life Tanks !!!!!!!! Please tell mo...

I am sorry for the loss of your brother

Hey Guys, Thanks for the kind remarks . The first picture that I posted is of the " real "tug boat the rest are of my model. Stuka F There is a lot of remarks I can say of this project. It was one of the most difficult builds I have ever done. Almost 3/4 of everything I have done I had to redo in th...

Thanks guys

No this is going under glass at Florida Marine, New Orleans corp. office.

I was commissioned to do this project by a local boat yard. It is my fist attempt at doing a water born vessel. It took me between 90-100 days to complete . The first pic is of the actual boat. I was able to go on it while it was under construction. Then It went to work. I needed 3 more trips to get...

Yes I made the leather shell for him.

I finally mastered the technique after many trails and errors.

That was before you could get one every other week on ebay !

I also made the visor trims and rear spines back then .

Now it is not nesissary to do that as well.

Things are looking great !! Do you make your own shellac ? I buy mine from Home Depot and tint it black . Have you ever used shellac flakes ? The late George B. told me he made his own with shellac flakes . By using the flakes he was able to make his shellac as thick as possible . On some of my repa...

Nice Bav helm.
Nice collection of Bav cocardes as well !!

What was wrong with the helm ?

I have a EM wartime shako with gray eagle( minty inside and out unworn) and when I received it , it had this finish .
I hit it with windex and wiped it down with paper towels and it went away.
Probably should have kept it as is.

I like it !!

You may be able to glue a strip of leather to reinforce the front edge or cut off a little off the ends of the trim in order to save the visor.
I am sure you have thought of this.

I had to cut the ends off of my Grenadire arty visor trim to get it to work because of shrinkage .

I have the German Wurt book and all silver military helms have brass/gilted scales.
Of course fire and police have the silver.
Perhaps a post war and on.
I would say fix what you have .
Gilted scales can de had for around $250 if he wants to go in that direction he can do so as his time allows.

Very nice helmet.

WHAT A NICE LOOKING HELMET !!!

Nice !!

Maybe my memory fails me.

Not sure if the text actually said apple green but the piece I considered was.

aicusv wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:58 am

Was there any explanation as to why there were no lugs?

I cant remember and I tried to look for the book and can't find it

Close to 30 years ago I just started collecting . I went to a local gun show and they had a m-16 apple green and it was missing the lugs and it looked to have never had them . The paint was about 95% and looked original with no shadow or ghosting were they would have been . The dealer wanted $250 fo...

Awesome job...is it a 3d Print or done by hand? Oh no 3D printing !!!!!! ALL SCRATCH BUILT !!! I usually try to get a good set of drawings and a 1/35 or 1/32 scale model then scale off of that to get my versions in 1/18 scale. 1/18 scale is the modern Gi Joe figures size. Thanks guys for the positi...

Still looking for more .

Any condition.

Some were issued without them . I have no idea why anybody would take them off but I have seen one as well about 20 years ago were somebody removed them. When they were actively worn sometimes the wind would blow in them and there would be a wistling noise and the guys would pack them with mud or wh...

Thanks guys for the GREAT pics and feed back .
I love the gray arty !!!!!

Does anybody know if these type of felts ( with no leather dome ) used the leather backing for the 91 posts ?

Hey Tony,

Thanks for your input.

Does anybody have a ersatz felt helmet that has had the leather visors attached to a felt dome ?

Hey Guys, I was reading in one of my reference books and there was a black and white pic of a Prussian spike helmet with felt dome with leather side post backings and front/ rear visors. In the caption it stated that the dome was leather covered with felt and this how they were able to save on the u...

Simple window cleaner will do with paper towels

This is a 3 year old post but the pictures are still cool.
It looks to me that the violin looking things are either liners or field covers .

The lady with a pile of wappens on her right looks to have a pile of visor trims on her left just in front of her.

Yes absolutely .

Under closer examination my gray star is the standard infantry larger size.

Is it possible that these plates were NEVER issued with a star ?

I have seen modern pics with uhlans having the large star.

I do not think I have even seen a smaller star on a gray eagle

I won too

$129 a set or each ?

Very nice !!

Thanks for sharing.

I forgot to add the flyers were for bonds.

In Randy T's book he has a printed flyer that was given out showing spikes and an garde uhlan without the star.
They had hundreds of them.
You see more m-15 without the star than with.
I was lucky to win one off of ebay about 25 years ago and have NEVER seen one since.

Yes at one time George was the only game in and spikes on ebay was at it's infancy. Back then parts were not available and either you made your own or did with out. Now if you need a part just wait and check ebay every day and that part may just show up. Except for an original uhlan metal m-15 top. ...

Boy this sure got way off of the subject. I got one of these repo arty spike from a French dealer as well . The bump on the neck is a little wider than a regular spike neck. But I do have an ORIGINAL that has a wide one as well. The real give away is actually the base itself Is has sharp cut just li...

They look great together.

Hello,

This sold about 7 months ago.

Lightning does strike twice !!

Thanks Aaron and Tony .

Any more out there ?

Hey Bryan ,

I am with you.

I would like a separate post with ersatz.

M

Email sent.

aicusv wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2019 1:55 pm

Great info, thanks for posting. Is there an order form?

Yes look at the bottom of the page , I think that there is a link to click on.

Or maybe I need new glasses.

I wish I could read German.

Yes with no more pictures to look at , I would go out on a limb and say original hardware and repo leather .

pebceb wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:16 pm

Cool cat! Did you make the mini-haube?

No it is off of a 1/6 scale figure.

Here is my little girl in a pickelhaube .

My little fur baby's name is ninja

While we wait here were my last 2 https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-qPHJmdX/0/778ef4ce/M/GetAttachmentThumbnail-12-M.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-fMQ826S/0/fcbfd809/M/GetAttachmentThumbnail-18-M.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-grSXJjT/0/b9e98a07/M/G...

I have collected camos in the past and collected over 50 of them. Switching to spikes I have sold off the last 4 last year. I am no expert but I have noticed somethings by looking at them. Your helmet looks great but I see a couple of red flags . As stated before the revits would not have shiny stee...

Still looking .
Any condition felt wanted.