Great color choice, I love it ❤

If you ever want to "age" your helmet liner don't use WD40 or gun oil, use avocado oil, no smell and it works just as well. In 1940 helmet makers were required to paint the helmets with paint containing aluminum oxide to give them a rougher less light-reflective finish, the M35s were repainted at that time. So if you want to repaint your M35 you can buy powdered aluminum oxide to mix in the paint field gray paint that was used in 1940 and after.

Damn, poor bro needs some soap for those mechanic hands.

Not bad, though the near-glossy color is totally unrealistic. Anyway, it's only a reproduction of a helmet that still can be found, even if it's more and more expensive. Don't forget that, though many were lost or destroyed, more than 30 millions m 1935, 1940 and 1942 were made. In my opinion, any reproduction of this helmet, as good as it can be, is worthless, only good for reenactment

The reproduction helmets always get the skirt and flair wrong, the skirt is always short on repos, some worse than others, but this ima one is a bit better, when I was younger I used to wonder where the film makers got their helmets, thinking they were real, cross of iron, Stalingrad etc, but now I can clearly see that they are replica, just by the skirting alone because the genuine German helmets perfect in shape, and especially the M42 helmets, which when I was younger I didn't know there was a m35, M40, M42, I just thought they were all the same, but thankfully because of internet we know a lot more, I'm 61 and grew up having to use the exchange and mart, back in the day when you could get an iron cross 1st class for £40, or a k98 bayonet for £18, but nowadays the militaria collecting world is ruined by greed, everything is out of the normal guy's price range, and especially German helmets, they're even selling bits of rusted helmet skirt, commanding £7\8 hundred for a so called original Normandy camo helmet, which always have the REPO, liners and chinstraps, basically an original shell painted and aged and repo liner, but the sad thing is that people, especially the younger generation of collectors are paying these prices and getting stung, and the information is here on the internet, I wish we had internet when I was growing up, the world's you're oyster nowadays, for ANYTHING, including information on the fake militaria etc, but like I said the ima repo is the best I've seen so far, good luck with your collecting mate, now maybe with you tube you may be able to buy a real one soon.

The spanish helmet isnt m35, it is z42 helmet original.

These are good reproductions and IMA shows a gun shot test and the helmet holds up very well. I did observe that behind the leather and liner band (they are maker marked) there is no felt as the originals so I rubber cement in a band. These are fun to decal, paint and age - for the price you can not go wrong!

i picked one up, they arent bad, my plan is to use it for practice on weathering my M35

Samir I have the same helmet thought mine was an original mine has the same stamp type stamp badge in the front

If and when you do the Swiss Vetterli Rifle, I'll be watching. I converted mine to center fire and load necked down Lebel Brass.

bonjournie to meet you. yeah.what a useful uploading-Bailman72- 🤗

I always replace the crappy liner with a more accurate one.

Wait is tht Spanish helmet original whts it called mine has the same badge type stamp in the front

Can you show a police helmet??

You can get the m40/55 contract ones. Some were produced by Quist in 1940 for Finland

How much did it cost

Repop?😳 Some of Ima helmets are spaceball dark helmet oversized!😆 Jman

Did you get this from Epic military