Reconstructing a 6th c. Baldenheim spangenhelm

[Matthew Amt]

Avete!

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but this one has been hugely inspirational to my own latest project:







I've been posting the construction progress on the Armour Archive for a few months, with more photos:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... p?t=108414

It's 18-gauge brass and steel--I cheated and skipped the silvering and gilding, sorry! The mail is from an Indian-made hamata, I think one of the early Find-It shirts, whose owner chopped off a strip to shorten it. I had to do a little riveted ring-linking of my own to assemble several scraps to get the desired shape. Obviously I still have to add the horsehair plume, which I am out of at the moment, but otherwise I'm pretty pleased with how this came out. It was definitely a challenge, and much more work than I had thought when I first toyed with making one of these several years ago. I didn't know they were so heavily decorated at the time!

Thanks to everyone who posted photos for me to drool on and study! Enjoy, and Valete,

Matthew