my helmet arrived todya, but i need to paint it,
does anyone know what coulour i should buy????
i need to buy the paint tonight and spray tommorrow so any help before i leave work at 500pm (1700) would be really helpfull
thanks porta
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Paint it white - then you can use it instead of a white flag this weekend, you're going to need it 
Sorry about the thread hijack, just could resist some pre game banter. Unfortunately I don't do German. so can't help.
Jon Steele
1st Sgt, Fox Company, 506th, 101st
OC
RAL 6006 is the correct dunkelgrauoliv colour for stahlhelms
You can get it from Zeltplane ebay shop for about £4.00 + p&p. they are very reliable and deliver faster than most uk suppliers! 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Restaurationslack ... m153.l1262
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
Arrrggghh thanks but i need to buy the paint from b+q tonight on the way home from work 
any ideas on what kind of grey to get ?????
thanks anyway
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
What colour is it now ?
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If you're going to B&Q why not try to find a decent colour photo of a helmet in the right colour and ask them to match it. You'll have to brush paint it as I don't think they mix up spray cans. You could try an auto paint supplier, as they can mix up spray cans, but they only match to colours that cars have been produced in!
Jon Steele
1st Sgt, Fox Company, 506th, 101st
OC
thanks mate
ill try the picture route
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
RAL6006 is a standard colour code. if you go to b&Q and find someone in Paint who actually knows what they are talking about ,they should be able to find the dulux equivilent colour and mix it with their machine. Make sure its matt obviously.
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
Ant, I got Halfords to mix me some RAL6006 (olive grey), but they had to send away. My mate told me that Rover Hurricane Grey is also a correct colour, but all of these are gloss, so you'll need to put a coat of silk / eggshell on top.
Tell you what, I have a splinter cover you can borrow - might be easier for this do.
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
thanks stiener , ill take you up on that, ive left it late this time 
i maybe able to sort it but i doubt it
thanks for all the help
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
good post cw
theres a car trade place NEXT DOOR
ill try em now
thanks guys
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
I'll bring it anyway mate - in case you don't get it sorted for this w/e.
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
Bit late but standard or acid etch grey undercoat is nearly right and you can topcoat it with the correct colour when you can get it?
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i found the correct paint at the car place, its a Very close match to the helmet, so i didnt buy it
its virtually BLACK ????????????
i think it maybe the right colour ???
im not going to do anything till after husky. any helmet Nazis going to husky???? i need some advice
also thanks steiner, the helmet cover will be a great help till i know what im going to do
thanks mate
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
just spent the better part of today walking round antique centres in and around sheffield, seen many many german steel helmets and i have to say nearly all were the almost black colour.
thx mate
colour must be right, i always thought they were lighter in colour 
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
They definitely gave you RAL6006 ?
Anyway, splinter cover's packed. 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
just spent the better part of today walking round antique centres in and around sheffield, seen many many german steel helmets and i have to say nearly all were the almost black colour.
Bloody hell,wish i had one place selling militaria around where i live within a 50 mile radius 
A lot of original German shells were released from the Czech republic quite a few years ago now-mainly M40s and M42s which were used post war by Czechs civil defence,fire departments etc.Most i saw were all painted black and had liners varying from crude 3 pad leather to the German type seen in the post war Czech m50? Russian type helmets.All of them had weird massive mushroom type liner rivets.
Sof sold them a while back and can remember refurbing a few with repro liners but got so fed up with trying to refit repro liners properly i gave up
What sort of prices were they selling for?
Any decent paint shop that has either a Dulux or Crown machine can mix up a lot of RAL colours.So long as you ask for an oil based Satin/Satinwood or Eggshell you will be ok.
Had a nice M35 at one time that looked a very dark grey/black indoors but when taken out into the sunlight it actualy looked a very nice greenish(apple?)colour.