It is difficult to photograph....
Hi,
I don't doubt it is an oil based paint that has dried out over time and has become brittle. As Robert has mentioned, acrylic paint does not age in the way this paint has aged. It is brushed on all over the helmet and some further brush strokes can be seen on the rim of the helmet.
As for winter camos being white washed I think most people would accept that a variety of paints were used in general when camouflaging helmets and this applied also to winter camo helmets.
It is difficult to photograph but I find it a very convincing example in hand. At the end of the day judging camos from photographs on the internet can be fruitless but I have tried to provide plenty of photos so that people can make their own minds up. Winter camos can be the hardest to verify. I won't try and change anyone's mind, everyone's entitled to their opinion.
Cheers
Dom
Let's examine the GHW2 'expertise' in regard to winter camos.
As for winter camos being white washed I think most people would accept that a variety of paints were used in general when camouflaging helmets and this applied also to winter camo helmets.
Quite a stretch of the imagination here. Concerning white camos, the majority were whitewash. Since winter snow did not last forever, this method was the preferred way to allow the removal of the white after the snow had melted. Otherwise you have a bright white helmet (a target) on your head the rest of the year. Scrubbing off whitewash was much easier than repainting the entire helmet another color.
Since the war ended in mid spring (May 8, 1945) and not winter, most uncaptured winterized helmets helmets had been scrubbed of whitewash by that time.
So the statement; "a variety of paints were used in general when camouflaging helmets and this applied also to winter camo helmets" does not hold water (B.S.).
It is difficult to photograph.
Of course it is; if what you are looking at is a recently applied bright white paint, then how do you photograph that and make it look 70 years old ?
I find it a very convincing example in hand.
Of course you do, after all it's your helmet. It reminds me of other statements by dealers legitimizing their modern art, like (I judged it authentic from the second I laid eyes on it).
At the end of the day judging camos from photographs on the internet can be fruitless
I see many closeup, clear excellent photos of this and I don't think judging camos by internet photos alone is a fruitless endeavor for all of them.
Winter camos can be the hardest to verify.
Because hardly any have actually survived and nearly all we see are postwar fakes. So with that in mind, yeah they are hard to verify.
