Home made zimmerit

[Collectorboye]

Hello,
I just restored this old german helmet, ( it was in bad condition, so i didn’t destroy a nice piece of history..)
And i just want to ask you guys here, does my first try on home made zimmerit look good? Please let me know!

(Btw the brown is mud!)




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[coloradocowboy]

glad you are happy with it

[Collectorboye]

glad you are happy with it

But does it look ok?


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[Immelmann]

looks very good

[fader107]

Is this zimmerit or mud?

[gadaru_kanaru]

Just what the world needs.......

[Reichsword]

Just what the world needs.......

Agreed,

[Collectorboye]

Is this zimmerit or mud?

It is an textured paint i made ( i dont know how anymore) and in put some mud on the helmet to give it a battle used look.


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[Bill Hermann]

Lord have mercy

[Schwerpunkt]

Not the kind of stuff I visit the JB helmet forum for.

[Mappa]

Not the kind of stuff I visit the JB helmet forum for.

+1

[Nicolas P.]

Not the right place to show this helmet, mate, you're gonna get trashed...

Anyway, it's your lid. If you like it, good for you.

Cheers

[kanister]

Zimmerit was a paste-like coating used to produce a hard layer covering the metal armor of a vehicle, providing enough separation that magnetically attached anti-tank mines would fail to stick to the vehicle.
Have you tried to attach a magnetical anti-tank mine to your helmet? And don't you think that there is a little disproportion between a magnetic mine and a helmet?

[ROBB]

Dear oh Dear oh Dear oh Dear Oh Dera and Vera and Quantasia wibble boing . Rob

[bigschuss]

I can look at this two ways. If I put my "who's he hurting" glasses on I suppose that if the OP is just playing around with a beat up rusty ground dug shell...really no harm, no foul. Nobody will ever think this is a real zimmerit. There's no ill intent. Not my thing....but to each his own.

If I put my "WTF?" glasses on...yeah O.K., where do I begin? Did you use actual barium sulfate to make your zimmerit? Did you use a torch to bake it on? And I guess most importantly there is no such creature as zimmerit camo on helmets.