1956 Suez British Paratrooper helmets

[steve501]

Can anyone please help I am planning a 1956 Suez Campaign and want to use some Warlords British Paras for a Paratroop Platoon but I need some suitable helmeted heads in 28mm can anyone help suggest any manufacturers please

Many thanks
Steve

[carlos marighela]

You mean plain, unadorned, Para helmets? I’ve searched high and low and haven’t found any, Dave for those on some modern naval figures. You are better off putting them in berets.

[Poiter50]

Damn, I saw some in the last few days, modern Navy landing party with unadorned Para style helmets. Can't remember who does them.

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[fred]

Some of the 1st Corps paras are in plain helmets.

[carlos marighela]

Damn, I saw some in the last few days, modern Navy landing party with unadorned Para style helmets. Can't remember who does them.

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I have the TARV RN figures. They are nice but very slender. It would be a bloody expensive to snip off 30 heads to mount on plastic figures.

[steve501]

I've just been looking at Gripping Beast MOFO para helmets but I think they are a bit too modern 1980's Falklands. I want to do a 40 man Platoon so I need a few
Cheers
Steve

[commissarmoody]

Might need to commission a decent sculpted to make those helmeted heads and be done with it. 

[CaptainHaddonCollider]

The Perry's included a para with a plain helmet in their Bolt Action 'Duel in the Desert' deal - there might be more coming?

[Poiter50]

Ask them for miscasts. The heads would fill first in the casting?

I have the TARV RN figures. They are nice but very slender. It would be a bloody expensive to snip off 30 heads to mount on plastic figures.

[carlos marighela]

Christ, you wouln’t want their miscasts. If I have one criticism of those figures it’s that the faces are rather bland and featureless.

[gimzod]

Would these from gripping beast do? https://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/Para__Marine_Helmets_4--product--3620.html

Other than that you may want to try contacting commando miniatures and see if he's doing his navel guys heads separately.

[carlos marighela]

Would these from gripping beats do? https://www.grippingbeast.co.uk/Para__Marine_Helmets_4--product--3620.html

Other than that you may want to try contacting commando miniatures and see if he's doing his navel guys heads separately.

Not unless you wanted to put fibreglass composite helmets, with camouflage covers that haven’t been invented for another twenty odd years on your figures.

[macgarns]

https://eoeorbisuk.com/collections/world-war-2/products/ww2354-british-airborne-with-smgs-i-4?variant=4539493187
Black Tree designs has these . Maybe not the nicest on the market, but you may try to recast the helmets with blue stuff and duplicate with green stuff ...
Fred