But you see the basic idea here. This is an early implementation of something called

Lozinge camouflage. And again, it's quite vorticists, it's quite cubists, and the deal is

you have a bunch of differently colored blocks which are separated by like thick

black lines and I mean it does break up a shape like we're getting to the

basics here we're getting to like disruption we're getting to the basics here we're getting to like disruption

we're getting to counter shading as well we're getting to what we know today yes I mean

the principles haven't really changed next please. I love these.

Yeah, so you can see that this disseminates throughout.

It disseminates outwards and downwards from specialists trying to like do this stuff with like special cases out to

more generalized stuff and like from July 1918 this is when the German military being ordered to like paint helmets in this kind of

of lozenge camouflage. You just pick some like kind of neutral colours and you do like blocks, blotches separated by lines.

And you have a mix of light and dark colours and it breaks up your silhouette and that becomes

standard. It's still something you individually have to do by hand, but it's it's sort of like standard procedure certainly.

These always remind me of like tortoise shells or turtle shells.

Yeah.

Getting denied entry into the Total Club in my German helmet.

Am I not turtle enough for the Turtle Club?

This is reminding me, you know what this is reminding me of is the regulations surrounding

building five of her ones in most of America. You've got to make them blocky, you've got to break up the

box. You've got to use a bunch of materials they're

just doing old-timey camouflage so you don't notice there's a huge building there

somehow absolutely to be fair the Germans started doing this from July of 1918, so you can kind of tell how much that helped them, given that the war ended in November.

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