Decal help please ..............

[mr slug]

I'd be very grateful if you decal experts could cast your eye over this decal, and offer your opinion as to authenticity.

Thanks.

[carlzeiss]

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the looks ok to me, but the paint looks postwar

[Jørn Schmidt]

Need to see the whole helmet,decal looks ok,but I suspecht
The Paint is bad.
J.S

[gadaru_kanaru]

It would be great to see the whole helmet. The camo (what little we can see) looks kind of like that found on some polizei helmets.

[ACER]

Hi Mark,

How are you?, i even don´t like the decal

Regards

Look those scratches from top to botton just in the below part of the decal

[francis006]

should be a Q shell at least

[mr slug]

Thank you all for the replies, and Inigo - nice to have such a pleasant welcome, how are you ?

Yes, it is indeed a 'Q', a 'Q64' in fact - M35, with a low lot number - 898.

I'm a real dunce with decal recognition, so really appreciate the help - Thanks.
I do have a suspicion that this may be a refurbished helmet, and think I may see a tiny piece of a previous decal poking through at the '5 o'clock position.

I agree Inigo, there looks like what may be sandpaper scratching in two directions under that decal - I figured it was where a previous decal was removed and replaced. There is no other scratching on the helmet, just over the decal area.
The helmet base paint is a very dark charcoal colour, like the late war - I thought perhaps this being an earlier lot number, it may have had a previous life as an 'apple green', then got redecaled and repainted at a refurbishment depot.

 Is that a common thing? - early apple greens being repaired and reissued with later paint?

Thanks for any help and interest.

[hervé30]

should be a Q shell at least

BF , i agree but i cannot give any opinion, not enough details....sorry

[DougB]

Sluggo, long time no see! How are you doing?

[mr slug]

Sluggo, long time no see! How are you doing?

Hi Doug,

I am fine thanks, things are not so bad these days - hope all your crew are doing fine.
This place has changed quite a lot, some 'interesting' new members, but it is great to 'see' some of you familiar faces.

[DougB]

Nice to hear! I haven't been online here in quite a spell myself. Ryan is doing a lot better, as you may recall he was seriously ill for a long time after our trip to England where you met him at Duxford. Everyone else is doing well, 2 left the house, 2 left! Say hi to the family!

Doug

[Paul.B.]

Hey Doug, good to see you here again.

[DougB]

Hi Paul, nice to be back!