Belegarth

hey guys i wanna see some of you helms. how about it

I have two. They're nothing fancy, but they're different enough, maybe, to be worth sharing. Not a single rivet used in either of them - just stitching with artificial sinew.

The first one posted was my attempt at a mix between this helmet and the helmet in this image. Also, check out this link for a better copy of the design on the helmet from Children of Hurin.

Old photos of me posing are silly.

Love that first one! Sadly, I myself have not made a helm, but have several drawings of some...

i do have one i'll have to find my pic of it and post it up here. i do like your helms Luinmir how long did it take you to make them?

those are magpies helms btw..

I was thinking of making this thread the other day, but got lazy. Good on ya! I love helms, they just look good. Here is mine:


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Nibenon wrote:those are magpies helms btw..

Yeah. My helms are forged with paper, graphite, and ink. I'd end up tearing my hair out if I tried to make some of the helms I've designed on paper.

well i like the designs. and i like the chain off the bottom of the leather cib

How long it took was never an issue -- a few hours maybe? Stitching it up took a while, I remember. And dying it, and cutting it. And designing it. And carving the side of it.

But it was fun, and done in fits and starts. Do which I had designed them a little better.

I like helms, but I never wear these. Too awkward to fight in, I want to be able to move and see and react better than they allow me too. And I don't get shot in the face terribly often.

There's way better helms out there than what I've got.

Here is mine.

Its an uruk helm, so i was going for that beat up, torn up look.

And tusks of course.

Its a form function thing. Straps to the head like a mask, which makes it very easy to fight in, and doesn't block my vision at all. The braids on it get switched out for a nice light wig hair for fighting. Braids are just for show and way too heavy to be practical. Open on the front for breathing, and open on the sides so i can hear out of it. I used it at OKfest and it worked quite nicely.

nice kadis i like it. it's both functional and cool looking lol
ryker i like that yours if the original style (the traditional helm if you will) you don't see that to often now adays. i have to pull mine out of storage and take some new pics of it. but it's modeled after the predetor helm. i'll post some pics of it as soon as i can.

Armor-legal face plate. 13oz hardened, water/glue formed leather with ballistic glass lenses...

Here's an old pic of me wearing it...

And this is the helm I am about 90% done with (I'll post more pics when I'm done). Imagine on it a visor, faceplate, and fully painted and dyed.

That face plate is absolutely amazing. How is visibility with the lenses?
The helmet looks awesome as well.

Thank you!
The visibility is actually rather good- it doesn't cut out perripheral vision at all- the only downside is that because of the padding around the ocular orb (I don't really want a lens breaking off and sliding into my eye if a red hits me in the face), the goggle is well insulated- when i work up a sweat, it fogs up. I drilled holes into the lenses to help, but I ultimately ditched the face plate as far as combat goes (great costume piece though!)
The face plate I am putting on the helm will not have that problem~!

A good way around the fogging problem is adding closed cell foam under the eyes so it sits on your face above your nose. Keep the air from getting up to the eyes and you won't have a fogging problem. Just make sure the bottom of the mask has somewhere for the air to escape otherwise your going to get light headed quickly.

i like those helms. thanks you guys for all your postings. i look forward to seeing the finished product Sieglatan. i'm looking for a good battle helm the one i have is cool its good for decorative and messin off in the field but its harder to use in a real fight.

Imperial Gallic "G" knock off from Red Sky Trader- $41.95 plus shipping.

Had to use double sided carpet tape with thin leather to cover up the non-penny round edges/corners around the ear protection, visor welds, and brow ridge - but if done with care it can look bad *.

Also, you need to either weld or add an extra rivet to the brow ridge to keep it from being a finger trapping hazard. I use a shoe lace cut in half, duck taped to the inside of the cheek guards under my padding for a chin strap. Again, do it right and you're gold.

FAILS, full rigid metal helmets are not permitted.

That isnt a full helm. It has an open face. Things like my sca helm are a full metal helm

Truth. And the hinges make it somewhat less than rigid, I'd argue.

It has come up, time and time again. General majority consensus (with a few exceptions) is that full helm = with face.

This is my new helm that I wore for the first time to WPO. Most notable is the elastically movable mandible. As I talk/shout/eat an arrow out of mid-air the mandible articulates and moves but returns to a closed position.

Is it me? or does Wraithraven look like Brak?

Haha yeah a few people have said that! I also get the "Piranha from Hell" too

I seen that helm in person at wpo. The bottom totally moves when he talks lol. It's great.

Bah I could take some new pics and get more angles, but I'm lazy.

Here is my old one:

Words have yet to be found to describe how sick looking that is.

The funny thing about the pic that Magnus uses as his avatar, is that for the longest time, I thought that he was holding up his thumb and forefinger, like saying, "you have this little of a chance to survive this," or something equivalently bad *. It wasn't until something like a month ago when someone blew the pic up for me that he was doing the whole metal salute thing.
I've been idly working away at my helm, and here is the under plate and eye pieces so far~

I've been posting more pics on another thread, so I feel a little sheepish posting here again, but meh.
And yeah- I agree that presently, it looks like a fly's head, or a member of the Foot clan from the 1990 Ninja Turtle movie.

lookin good man, I dig those eyes.

I like it, very Baxter Stockman.

magnus that helm is f**kin sweet man where'd you get it?

I made it along with my full kit. The paint was done by my lovely leatherwork partner Vandy.

thats hella sweet man.

Alright. Here mine.
This first one is my regular helmet. The second is the new lighter, cooler helm for Chaos War. Since we started having it in Veit Nam, I haven't been wearin a helm, so I made a new one thats easier to wear.






There ya go.
FB

That second one looks very unique. I like it. When can we see what it looks like on a head?

That gold tooth is awesome.

Helm on head.

Wow, I look like I've been liftin weights.

This helm is part of the new jungle Orc armor. I think it might get a studded beard.
It's gonna be evil.
FB

Dude, seriously, lifting weights, watching law and order, consulting with your attorney, and winning the game, all at the same time. get some sleep.

I've never had the pleasure of seeing Forkbeard's helm up close-
Simply amazing, though that point's probably been driven home countless times!
The gold tooth makes me wonder how brutal Uruk-Hai dentistry must be.
There- the face plate is complete!

It's kinda hard to see from this angle, but the thing burned and burnished onto the front is supposed to be a zweilhander.
I still entertain the whole Doppelsöldner notion from time to time...

That's epic...and I thought my helm was coming together pretty well...

Holy boner-inducing molded leather, Batman!

Looks great Sieg.

I don't see the spaceballs relation though.

Damnit Sieg. That's incredible. Your work is just. Unbelievably good.

And I'm a little miffed that someone beat me to the plague-doctor aesthetic. Play that up, dude.

Thanks everyone! I wish I had more time and resources to do this more often, but then again, who doesn't?
I've never seen "Spaceballs" but I think I get the sentiment. Thanks!

I was originally going to go for a longer, outward facing snoot resembling a plague doctor, but thinking ahead, realized that it wasn't such a great idea.
It would add another few inches to the face, and if someone struck the end of it, I'd imagine the entire mask might torque right off my face.
That, and if someone had the balls to try to grapple me, a large beak would be a sort of an unsafe way to get him off me (though amusing!).
In the end, the "beak" rises maybe an inch off of the lower plate, as to not obstruct the airways.
I might make another one that is actually a plague doctor mask (with a beak stuffed with incense, of course), if I ever take up long term medic or herald duties.
Or just sell it.

It is a work in progress, but here it is.

Looking good, man! So all you have left to do is the lobstertail?
I like the forehead plate- looks really good in profile!

The lobstertail and some padding, yeah.

seig, OH....MY...GAWD! hold you mold the leather to the mask shape you want? kinda iffy as to how to do it.