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I thought I'd post this and get some thoughts from you guys,

I picked up this m40 years ago on the very cheap to fill in some shelf space. It was all painted over in gray Including the rust and deep Pitting, See inside paint pic. The liner was long gone. I bought it to some day strip it and camo paint it with chicken wire. With no intent to deceive a would be buyer.

I started to remove the paint to see what I had to work with and found parts of original paint and what looks like once wehrmach decal and two colors of green and maybe tan/brown. ?

I know it's not worth much but should I keep it as is, or camo paint like I wanted to?

Thanks
Steve,

Bear with me on some of the photos may be coming slow as my phone doesn't always like to resize for me, I have pic's to show.

Steve,

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IMo why bother doing anything with this lid.Just a rusted/overpainted relic,like putting a $10.00 shoeshine on a $5.00 pair of shoes.

I think this would be a great candidate for a camo job. It was already altered from it's found state when you got it. Show a before and after pic.

I see both points of you guy's so far, and thought it would be a 50/50 split on opinions. As I said for $35 payed I'd give a camo look for the heck of it.i don't do many helmets now days as their not $25 now days w/ decal . I think my luck ran out with my LW paratrooper. Only thing wrong it had cut chinstraps. Now days I'm back to TR guns.

Thanks and more opinions welcome,
Steve

Also my iPhone like to make up its own words and do it's own things at times. Don't give to hard time. But it doesn't bother me i got thick skin my last up date been tough on older phone.

This place is getting harder to start a topic just to get something new moving in the fourms. Not that this helmet was anything special, just something to banter on. Ive sold a number of nice ones over the years and Still keep dozen or more. Most people don't take the time post here anymore, and the ones that did are long gone.

It's seems to feel like a ghost town here now days. There's only about four areas I stop to look and read here now. Anything more I'll read a few other places. It would be great to see this place back to its roots and glory of time past.

Agreed wish we had more posters.
The helmet is just a shell now with a retail of $100.

Paul,
I think you may reaching at the $100 mark, but now days I do see more and more new collectors are moving to relic items, maybe the cost and not being as common to find as it was once was when I younger and I had to look for it.


Thanks
Steve,

Here's my restored shell. It's a M40 DN47. The helmet was originally a SS helmet (according Brian Ice's reference book).
I only had the shell that was repainted in different camo colors by a fella that used it for paintball and or airsoft. All original paint, decal,...were gone - read removed - by the previous owner.

So, this helmet is used now for re-enactment purposes and has been restored in its old glory. I stripped the helmet from it's post war paint to the bear metal and then repainted it in Feldgrau. The decal is a 2nd pattern SS. The metal liner is also original however the leather liner is Norwegian. The Chinstrap is repro (crappy quality imo). The split pins are original and marked ()they came with the lid so I just re-used them)

In your case I would restore the lid and repaint it.

more pics of my restored lid