Any chance for this snow camo?

[KradSPam]

I don't see any red base of coat under the white one, this would be the appearance, showing is what you would get with rust forming around chip marks, from white paint, it's almost more brown/yellowish looking colour, but having said this,
a red base primer would be used when painting white,
it's almost a similar colour to this forum.
Can you tell us how you know this, that primer was not used, during this period?

It is quite possible, and most likely that this helmet was factory painted at it's manufacture, especially if it was made during winter, the paint under the rivets make this theory more acceptable.
I do not think that German soldiers, were issued with tins of white paint in the field, in the depts of winter. it would be like giving them a knitting needle to sew the wool onto their jumpers.
Winter camo helmets may well have recieved a top up of paint after a couple of years or so in the field.

Sigh.

Ok, I'll bite.

Red paint, look at the corner of the skirt between the white and the brown rust. It's all uniform brick red, clearly not rust bleed. Incidentally, which point are you standing behind, that red primer WOULD be used when painting white, or that there is NO red primer on the helmet?



As for how I know primer was not being used, that's fairly easy to ascertain when you look at a few helmets with any degree of paint loss. I ask the forum if I am right in this, but I am fairly sure it is.

If the helmet was made during winter in Germany and painted white, it would be unsuitable for use in Africa for example. Snow is a rare environment on the whole, and the permanence of a factory issue snow camo is just poor economics. You are far more likely to be in a temperate environment. In modern military equipment snow camo is rarely anything more than a crappy afterthought pair of overtrousers and smock.

And lastly, to say that a tin of white paint is out of reach of a soldier in the field is ridiculous. I doubt highly that each soldier was issued a tin of 'paint, white, landsers, for the use of', but come on.......

[Dom]

Soldiers not issued with paint in the field?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwam9...layer_embedded

Of course they were

Dom

[KradSPam]

Soldiers not issued with paint in the field?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwam9...layer_embedded

Of course they were

Dom

I love it, good find!

[Furher]

He is a good painter, very fast,could work for me any day, but he is not up to the standard of his comrades who painted them in the factories at least they done behind the rivets

[KradSPam]

lol .

I need a beer.

[sgtdorango]

hahaha!...thats funny, factory painted white helmets for a 2-3 month season, then what is the soldier supposed to do when the snow melts, return the helmet to be repainted in Berlin?...brilliant

[Furher]

hahaha!...thats funny, factory painted white helmets for a 2-3 month season, then what is the soldier supposed to do when the snow melts, return the helmet to be repainted in Berlin?...brilliant

I don't have all the answers take a look at the thread i just started on my helmet it appeared black, so i sanded it, now under that it's dark green, and under that it is white

[Dan P]

Soldiers not issued with paint in the field?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwam9...layer_embedded

Of course they were

Dom

There's your snow camo paint factory

That's a great clip

[Dan P]

then what is the soldier supposed to do when the snow melts, return the helmet to be repainted in Berlin?...brilliant

As long as he has the original receipt that wouldn't be a problem.

[Furher]

hahaha!...thats funny, factory painted white helmets for a 2-3 month season, then what is the soldier supposed to do when the snow melts, return the helmet to be repainted in Berlin?...brilliant

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6693062...in/photostream


No he would just paint it back to a normal colour like my dark green one was, probably by himself or his comrade, in the field in a similar scenario like you just provided with that youtube link. Thanks for finding it.

[HowardC]

snow camo

Thanks to everyone for an interesting thread. This snow camo and the relic 42 SS I posted were offered to me by the same guy. I passed on both but I was recently informed that they ended up sold at the Allentown PA militaria show. So there is a chance we may see them again.