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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: seawarrior on April 22, 2009, 15:59:59
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hi this is my WW2 USA marine.
I hope you like it.
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Excellent custom marine figure seawarrior :wow:!
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I like the painting you've done, but I'm not sure about the helmet, although I'm no specialist in US WW2 uniforms. It looks more like a British army one. Maybe it needs less of a brim.
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great work sea warrior. :wow:
bill is right, it looks a tiny bit english. :yup:
let's see how much time it will take for geobra to bother sylvia with the ww2 ban on customs. :hmm:
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bill is right, it looks a tiny bit english. :yup:
Not Bill, Gordon. :wave:
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Nice work, Seawarrior!
The "old" pattern helmet was used early in WW2
until the new ones were more available. So your
helmet is correct. ( I watch the history channel on T.V.
too much. ;D). I think I saw some more documentation
in an Osprey book.
Semper Fidelis!
Jimbo
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Nice work, Seawarrior!
The "old" pattern helmet was used early in WW2
until the new ones were more available. So your
helmet is correct. ( I watch the history channel on T.V.
too much. ;D). I think I saw some more documentation
in an Osprey book.
Semper Fidelis!
Jimbo
Thanks for the information, Jimbo. I'll file it away for future reference.
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Helmets of World War II
One of the most noticeable changes in the Marine Corps uniform at the outset of World War II was the transition from the M1917A1 helmet reminiscent of World War I to the familiar M1 helmet of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.
At the outbreak of World War II, Marines were wearing a modernized version of the helmet first introduced to Marines serving in France during World War I. The American M1917 helmet was nearly identical to the British "Brodie Pattern" helmet. In 1939, this helmet was superceded in the Marine Corps by the improved M1917A1 helmet (as shown below, worn by men of the 6th Marines in Iceland). The padded leather liner and two-piece canvas chinstrap of this updated version of the "tin hat," as it was then called, made it far more comfortable and sturdier than its predecessor. The steel helmet shell remained the same. In the Marine Corps, the helmet was worn both with and without insignia and, while most Marines wore the helmet in the rough olive drab paint, some units, most notably those in China, burnished, waxed, and polished theirs.
Less than two years after the Marine Corps' adoption of the M1917A1, a U.S. Army research team at Fort Benning under [the command] of Major Harold G. Sydenham, began working on a new design for a two-piece helmet which offered far more protection for the wearer. Adopted by the government as the M1 helmet on 9 June 1941, the Hadfield manganese steel helmet was first made by the McCord Radiator Company of Detroit, Michigan, while the fiber liner was manufactured by the Hawley Products Company. At the suggestion of General George S. Patton, the liner's suspension system was patterned after a design by John T. Riddell that was used in contemporary football helmets. The new helmet was issued to the Marine Corps in the spring and early summer of 1942 and, by the time of the Guadalcanal campaign later that summer, had all but supplanted the old "dishpan" helmet. -- Kenneth L. Smith-Christmas
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Here is an US soldier of Eric. One of our member on playmoboys.