One thing I noticed that I had not expected was that after I added the liner to the aventail, it took on a subtle difference in shape. Posted: Wed 24 Jul, 2013 5:47 am Post subject: Here are a few images, and for those interested there are more on my Facebook page. The surface was finished to match other armour parts by another maker, and the helmet's owner will be having it fitted with an aventail. My version was raised from welded cones of mild steel (the original was not hardened either), lined with hand-stitched cotton-stuffed linen and fitted with 26 hand-filed vervelles. I took some liberties with the fitting of the visor in order to make it integrate better with the skull, and made pivots and conical rivets more appropriate to the style. so creating an exact replica wasn't a high priority. The original once sported a front-hinged visor and has since been fitted with a side-pivot visor on pivots which are not original to the visor, and with modern vervelles and an aventail of scavenged medieval mail scraps. My last commission was for a bascinet based on the Wallace Collection's A69. Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 6:30 pm Post subject: Bascinet based on Wallace Collection A69
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