Captain, I don't think Player11 is here to respond intelligently, although he has had many opportunities.
RE: the white snow camo above, Player11 says it belongs to his good friend, he has detailed pics on his PC and to him it is a very good camo. That's about the extent of his position on it.
I felt I gave some pretty good points about this helmet and painted snow camos in general. Very few exist in collections today probably because the war ended in late spring 1945 after the snow had melted. Former white wash helmets had their whitewash scrubbed off. Former snow camos were reissued with slategray or green gray.
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In one thing im going to agree with you 100%, i m not here to help you or to be educated with you, like you arent with the rest of people.
If i want or not to reply you, will be my final deccission and as you are judging camo helmets, im here to judge to that person who judges it.
Said this lets go to the helmet.
" I felt I gave some pretty good points about this helmet and painted snow camos in general. Very few exist in collections today probably because the war ended in late spring 1945 after the snow had melted. Former white wash helmets had their whitewash scrubbed off. Former snow camos were reissued with slategray or green gray."
This sentence is an absolute stupid thing, for this same reason, as DD as per regulation had to me removed, all the DD we can find those, by you knowledge, MUST be fake, because they may be found with the eagle decal, or better nothing, so M40 and M42 with decal following your sentences are fakes today.
Winter camos used to be painted, many of them, with plaster. For that reason, is very easy to see helmets where the white paint has gone from the top, the plaster that survives tend to go yellow, that fact, is what makes to doubt in many cases in winter camos for the authenticy, most new winter camos paints, due to the work of fakers tent to have new rust, also from the same colour than old plaster.
For this reason, winter camos are one of the most hard camos to judge, the new rust and the oxidation of the plaste due to the chemical components have the same view from pics. They must to be judged on hand to see the kind os paint they have. Winter camos with plaster is easier to be judged because in high porcentage of probabilities should be good
I agree that many winter camos are faked, i dont have any of them, even when i have handled minimun 10 because its very difficult to agree when the yellow colour, which is common to snow camos is due to the plaster ( with in many cases this would give you a clue of the authenticy) is from a real helmet or a faked one.
A genuine winter camo MAY be painted with plaster, because it was the most recurrent paint in the russian area, that why most of them, the originals, showns the top of the helmet with the paint gone
Said this and showing the helmet we are speaking about, i like the way the paint is gone from the top, the eagle is a genuine and golden eagle of the Km.
This is not a winter camo, not a Normandy and not an exact pattern, just a yellow helmet painted with the red cross in the front.
If you see ( generally speaking) the crown, you can see how the feldgrau is under the kind of yellow paint, the red croos is almost gone in some areas and there arent tool marks around the helmet.
The rust, wich is not new, the new one is more orange than this, is not blowing from the broken areas, usually fakes, tend to blow the new rust from the holes where the tool marks are made, generally, by the injuries made to the iron.
I attach another pic of a helmet, that i have been asked from a friend, you can see the difference in the crown of both them, thie second medic one, appart from keeping all the paint on the crown, shows those yellow points known from the new rust.
Let me tell you, that is the first time i hear such a stupid sentence that " Very few exist in collections today probably because the war ended in late spring 1945 after the snow had melted." and beg you not to say again ( is not the first time i hear you that, because with your theory, all the M35, M40 and M42 SD that have reach to our days should be fakes, because the war ended in 1945.
If you really want to be taken for intelligent, please, dont fall in that mistake, because you will miss all your points
