"Whippets and British Helmets" Topic

I'm about to start on my late war British forces, and could do with a little help on a couple of colours:

Infantry Helmets – were these green or brown? There seems to be conflicting colours used when looking around the web. I know that in WWII there were green, but what about in 1917/18?

Whippet Tanks – again green or brown? I have gone with brown for Mk IVs, but most images show green Whippets.

Ta

Brodie helmets – khaki. Could be covered in sand/paint mix so you have some leeway.

Whippets were green as far as I am aware.

try
link
and
link
Mr Google is your eternal friend

this is pretty good
YouTube link

most likely a mix of colors what ever color paint on hand when it needed painting.

Whippets were a light khaki colour. The green colour was used for the British heavy tanks after the war in the museums. This is why you will often see models of Mk IVs and Vs painted in this colour, as well as models of Whippets.

Robert

I did my Whippets khaki brown. I believe helmets were service brown, just as many were in ww2, even if people like to paint them green:)

I usually do ww1 helmets with Hessian covers and/or mud.

Thanks. So brown or khaki it is.

The problem with google images for WWI is that is really hard to know what is original colours or what has been painted subsequently.

I do have a fair number of figures with helmet covers, which seems to have been very common.

Yes, the helmet covers make it easy, Hessian being a lighter shade and also similar in tone to dried mud. A Hessian layer under the scrum was de rigeur for cold war Mark V helmets too.