Now the helmet is ready to be painted.
I have spent quite some time on figuring out what paint to use, what technique to use and what color to use.
There is a lot of information on German Helmets and I decidded to try the 1942 paint Slate Grey or SchieferGrau:


See also some examples on this wibside:
http://www.nachrichtentruppe.de/9-alle-kategorien/ausruestung/77-der-stahlhelm-der-wehrmacht-modell-m35-m40-und-m42
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I had to figure out what material to use to create the rough texture in the paint finnisch.
First I tried these white grains used in modeling.
The results can be seen in the first 2 pictures, it came out to rough.
Then I was able to obtain some aluminium oxide, the result can be seen in the last picture.






Above, the Slate Grey "schiefergrau" RAL7015 with aluminiumoxide.
I pored some paint in a jar and mixed the powder in it next the paint was applied with a brush.
Before I tried to spray the paint on the helmet and then I threw the powder over the wet paint but the effect was
that it looked like the powder was on top of the paint in stead mixed in it. Maybe if I had applied more layers of spray paint it eventuelly would result in the same texture as mixing the powder in the paint.
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