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Home of the 5th division Imperial Japanese Army living history group |
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Restoration of WW2 M1930Japanese Helmet |
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Singapore war years |
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Back in 2002. I purchased an original Japanese Army helmet shell and started to plan for it's restoration... However, I soon realised that this shell is a GI reworked shell and had to fill in some holes, remove the liner attachments in addition to the restoration process...After being super busy in the army for the past 1 and a half years, I finally had the time to acquire the parts needed and most important of all, the time needed to start on this project. |
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Uniforms and Equipment |
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Useful readups |
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On going Projects |
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More on Page 2! |
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2 - After sanding off the paint of the shell on both outside and inside to bare metal(with a lot of help from my dad and some blisters)...We can see quite a number of round holes that needed to be filled. |
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1 - The untouched shell with two liner attachments to be removed (can be seen at the lower interior of the shell) Time to get to work.... |
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The shell now, waiting for several holes to be filled and for it to be primed... |
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I noticed these markings on the interior only after removing off all the paint..This one above shows the numbers " 1301 " stamped on the dome of the shell...Is it original to the shell? |
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This was what remained after removing the liner attachment...The 2 unsightly marks needs to be filed downmore.... |
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This is the size marking stamped on the interior of the shell...The top is a marking of a smaller star within a bigger one. The character below is " Da" in chinese meaning that this helmet shell size is big. Sometimes you can see that this character is white painted over on original shells... |
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I filled up the holes with epoxy putty and sanded it down to give it a smooth finish..Next step is to attach the 3 metal brackets to loop the chinstrap through... |
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AlvinLee_81@yahoo.com |
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