GaryChildress opened this issue on Mar 11, 2012 · 53 posts
SamTherapy posted Mon, 12 March 2012 at 8:31 PM
*"You've never seen a German Fallschirmjager helmet? Or you don't think this looks like one?"*Nope, not ever. As it happens, I saw one online today - for the first time in my life - and I think yours is a very accurate representation. Absolutely top marks on that score. I'll bet the average punter wouldn't know of it and think yours is just a weird looking German helmet, though.
Therein lies the problem. As, has been pointed out in this thread, there are plenty of other good, free German helmets around, why would anyone pay for yours? Consider this, there are - or were - some for sale items in the Marketplace here which consisted of what amounted to almost the entire WWII German army. You could say yours is unique in that nobody's made one like it so far but how many people - other than afficionados - are going to pay for a helmet they've most likely never seen before?
I am not in any way denigrating your skill as a modeller but I strongly suspect you'll have the devil's own job selling many of 'em. I hope I'm wrong.
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.