Vintage Merryweather
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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
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Previous changes
- 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
- ↑ TF2 hats and stuff (show off your TF2 stuff here) - Page 11 - Polycount Forum, retrieved 2010-10-25.
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