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Posted: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 03:02 PM UTC
What colour for 1939-40 era would french armoured crew helmets be?
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Posted: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 07:00 PM UTC
Dragon's Blitzkrieg in France Figurer Set calls for H64/17 and 1745.
Tamiya's Renault EU calls for mixing colors XF-49 :2 + XF-62:1 for the helmet. And X-9 :1+ XF-10 :1 for the helmet's visor.

I'm colorblind so I'd have to trust the color callouts.
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Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 - 01:33 AM UTC
there's 2 helmets.
The one with head phone from memory is black with brown leather.
The other is dark olive green with brown leather.
Hope the link works on Armorama forums:
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Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 - 01:59 AM UTC
Maybe this would help ?

It's a Modèle 35 (=Mle 35 or M35...) tanker helmet :



Here's the variant fitted with headphones :



Some color variations can be found, as seen in this thread from a French forum :

http://francemilitaria.forumdediscussions.com/t4030-les-casques-a-bandeau-par-pierre-emmanuel80


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Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 11:13 AM UTC
Thanx for your help. Just the first rate info I needed.

Doug
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