Vintage Merryweather

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The Pyro

The Vintage Merryweather is a community-created headwear item for the Pyro and was chosen by Valve to be released with the second wave of community-contributed content due to its outstanding quality. It appears as a black and gold Merryweather helmet, as used by 19th century fire brigades.

The description of this was written by ASpieboy for the Hat Describing Contest, and was slightly modified by Valve.

Painted variants

Main article: Paint Can
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Single colors
Painted Vintage Merryweather E6E6E6.png Painted Vintage Merryweather D8BED8.png Painted Vintage Merryweather C5AF91.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 7E7E7E.png
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge Color No. 216-190-216 Peculiarly Drab Tincture Aged Moustache Grey
Painted Vintage Merryweather 141414.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 2D2D24.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 694D3A.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 7C6C57.png
A Distinctive Lack of Hue After Eight Radigan Conagher Brown Ye Olde Rustic Colour
Painted Vintage Merryweather A57545.png Painted Vintage Merryweather CF7336.png Painted Vintage Merryweather E7B53B.png Painted Vintage Merryweather F0E68C.png
Muskelmannbraun Mann Co. Orange Australium Gold The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
Painted Vintage Merryweather E9967A.png Painted Vintage Merryweather FF69B4.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 7D4071.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 51384A.png
Dark Salmon Injustice Pink as Hell A Deep Commitment to Purple Noble Hatter's Violet
Painted Vintage Merryweather 2F4F4F.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 424F3B.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 808000.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 729E42.png
A Color Similar to Slate Zepheniah's Greed Drably Olive Indubitably Green
Painted Vintage Merryweather 32CD32.png Painted Vintage Merryweather BCDDB3.png
The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime A Mann's Mint
Team colors
Painted Vintage Merryweather A89A8C.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 839FA3.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 3B1F23.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 18233D.png
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Painted Vintage Merryweather B8383B.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 5885A2.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 483838.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 384248.png
Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU)
Painted Vintage Merryweather 803020.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 256D8D.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 654740.png Painted Vintage Merryweather 28394D.png
The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Painted Vintage Merryweather C36C2D.png Painted Vintage Merryweather B88035.png Painted Vintage Merryweather UNPAINTED.png
Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted

Previous changes

December 2, 2010 Patch

  • The hat's painting texture was improved.

Trivia

  • Merryweather helmets were originally produced by the Merryweather company, a 19th-century British manufacturer of firefighting equipment. [citation needed]
  • The Merryweather helmet became obsolete as a firefighter's helmet, due to the fact that its metal frame causes it to conduct electricity, making it a large hazard in burning houses which have (had) electricity. It was replaced by helmets such as the Brigade Helm.
  • The Merryweather was originally submitted as the "Vintage Pyrolean" (most likely a play on the Vintage Tyrolean's name) and is labeled "pyrolean" in the game files.
  • The initial design had the Vintage Merryweather entirely gold, but the author decided to change this due to it appearing too plain and bright.[1]

References