Helmets

My favorite helm so far is this one from the movie Beowulf and Grendal. The oculars add so much to it. The chain mail drape in the back is great too. This peice is expensive at $275.00. You can find it at Buy the Sword.

It is a heavy peice, made from 14 gauge steel. The hanging mail in the back is rivited, but the attachment rings are butted. I am replacing those rings with waxed thread.

The helmet has a liner, but it is a leather suspention type and not historic. I worked for me, though.

For the SCA you could not use this helmet and I am in the process of working my existing SCA spangenhelm to look similar to this example.

I have a helm from Otto Armoury back in the early 1990s. It is a very simple spangenhelm with a nasal guard. I had padded it with blue camp foam and duct tape, and added a simple 550 cord chinstrap.

My goal is to add eyebrows and nasal detailing from Raymound's Quiet Press, add a leather drape around the back and add a more historic padding and chinstrap. Where it won't have the oculars, it will look similar- which is what I want. I'll post pics of the SCA helm in the following posts.