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Helmet and Visor (7071.dat) - Alfred Schmitz - 2026-03-27

Hi!

Various Speed Champions sets include a Formula 1 helmet (7071.dat).
Unfortunately, I can only assign a color to the helmet itself, but not to the visor.
I haven't been able to find a solution on the forum.
Is there one?

Best regards
Alfred

RE: Helmet and Visor (7071.dat) - Manfred Schaefer - 2026-03-27

(3 hours ago)Alfred Schmitz Wrote: Hi!

Various Speed Champions sets include a Formula 1 helmet (7071.dat).
Unfortunately, I can only assign a color to the helmet itself, but not to the visor.
I haven't been able to find a solution on the forum.
Is there one?

Best regards
Alfred

Hello,

The reason is likely that this is the single-color version.

Only one color can be passed to a part at a time. If a part consists of one or more colors, one color must be defined as the base color (16), and the other colors are hardcoded in the file. The base color is replaced by the color when the file is called. It would be advisable to define the helmet itself in the base color and the visor as a hardcoded part.

However, this requires creating a separate file for each visor color.

I hope this explanation is clear.

Regards,

Manfred

RE: Helmet and Visor (7071.dat) - Alfred Schmitz - 2026-03-27

(2 hours ago)Manfred Schaefer Wrote: Hello,

The reason is likely that this is the single-color version.

Only one color can be passed to a part at a time. If a part consists of one or more colors, one color must be defined as the base color (16), and the other colors are hardcoded in the file. The base color is replaced by the color when the file is called. It would be advisable to define the helmet itself in the base color and the visor as a hardcoded part.

However, this requires creating a separate file for each visor color.

I hope this explanation is clear.

Regards,

Manfred

Hi Manfred!
Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, that makes sense!

But those files aren't available yet.
I'll start working on them :-)

Best regards,
Alfred

RE: Helmet and Visor (7071.dat) - Alfred Schmitz - 2026-03-27

(1 hour ago)Alfred Schmitz Wrote: Hi Manfred!
Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, that makes sense!

But those files aren't available yet.
I'll start working on them :-)

Best regards,
Alfred

Hi Manfred!

I found the solution:
All you have to do is assign a transparent color to the s02 file in the main file.
I did that, and it resulted in six files with different Visor colors.


.dat   7071x01 (trans_black).dat (Size: 482 bytes / Downloads: 0)

.dat   7071x02 (trans_red).dat (Size: 477 bytes / Downloads: 0)

.dat   7071x03 (trans_green).dat (Size: 479 bytes / Downloads: 0)

.dat   7071x04 (trans_dark_pink).dat (Size: 483 bytes / Downloads: 0)

.dat   7071x05 (trans_orange).dat (Size: 480 bytes / Downloads: 0)

.dat   7071x06 (trans_clear).dat (Size: 479 bytes / Downloads: 1)

If you’d like, check the filenames and headers, and then upload the files
UNDER YOUR NAME (since I’m not the part author) to the part tracker.

Thanks and best regards,
Alfred