What Colour Helmet Are You Using?

[Spartan99]

Have picked out a model i will go with for a helmet, im just curious if anyone out there would steer away from black or dark colours because of the heat/sun attraction issues?...Or is it irrelevent?

[NG Limited]

Spartan99,

I painted my SPH-5 a dark Charcoal Grey metallic a couple of years ago and it doesn't seem to be any hotter than when it was white. Scratches show up a lot easier in the dark color though. Although that could be in part from the type of paint I used.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers!

[RDM]

Yellow baby yellow :up:

[Intrepid]

Lighter colour reflects heat better....except yellow. Yellow diverts UV rays inward and fries the brain into mush.

[Iceman]

Black Endura, no heat problems during Canadian summers.

[Spartan99]

Nice, thanks for your valued input...So basically ill make sure i stay away from Yellow lol...will probably go flat black...Thanks again guys...

[407 Driver]

I painted my SPH-5 a dark Charcoal Grey metallic a couple of years ago

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NG, add a good splash of Red to that Helmet, a generous amount of white and we have a matching 212 just for you !

 

 

Me, I just fly a White SPH-5, but it has Kokapelli stickers on the sides, ( Anasazi god of Fertility ??? :up: ) and it was previously owned by the recently retired multi millionaire Mr Dave Whyte !

 

[NG Limited]

NG, add a good splash of Red to that Helmet, a generous amount of  white and we have a matching 212 just for you !

 

407D, for a flying slot on one of those 212's I would have my helmet repainted in a heartbeat!

[Hover-Pig]

Navy blue Gallet 250

[Skidz]

Mine's a home-made colour (buddy who did it works for Megabloks and used it for colour tests). One coat of royal blue laquer, one coat of light green laquer, two coats of clear, one coat of clear doped with rainbow metalflake, followed by a final coat of clear (polyurethane, so very scratch resistant).

 

If I put it close to something in any shade of blue, it looks green. If I put it close to something in any shade of green, it looks blue. The closest colour I could say is "teal", but that wouldn't sound very macho now, would it...

 

300 hours of use and only some very minor scratches so far... :up: