The French M15 pattern steel helmet in 1:72 scale, listed by the manufacturer as the variant marked with the word detail. An accessory for figures in French dress.
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A small accessory for figures in 1:72 scale, not a figure on its own and not a kit of a model. The set captures the French M15 pattern steel helmet and the manufacturer lists it as a separate variant with the word detail in its name. The manufacturer also makes a basic version of the same helmet in the same scale, so check which designation the box carries.
The French steel helmet of the 1915 pattern was among the first steel helmets introduced in series during the First World War. The shell was shallow, rounded out by a short peak at the front and the back and by a lengthwise comb on the crown, which covered a ventilation opening. Besides the French army a number of other countries used it in the same or a slightly altered form, and it stayed in service well into the interwar period. It is precisely the comb and the rim running round the shell that are the details by which the fineness of a helmet in a small scale is judged.
Cut the original headgear off the figure with a scalpel and level the crown with a file, so that the new helmet seats with no gap. Try the part dry first, line the comb up with the axis of the head and check the angle of the peak above the face. It is glued with cyanoacrylate glue, and the gap round the rim is filled with a thin strip of two-part putty. Spray the whole thing with a primer before painting. Finely modeled edges show best when painting starts from a darker base: the base shade, a dark wash into the recesses around the comb and the rim and a very light drybrush on the raised surfaces. Draw a darker tone under the peak, so that a shadow forms above the face.
The accessory is supplied unpainted. Glue, paints and the figure itself are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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