Jim's first helm ..pics

Krag · Post by **Krag** » Sat Oct 28, 2000 11:57 pm

Here's Jim Grahm's first helm. He did a replica spangenhelm...not for sca, just for kicks. It's really nice to have someone come out, pick a period armour project and follow it through..even when it seemed like it might not quite come out like it was supposed to! It turned out really nice. It also happens to fit me rather nicely...hmmmm, I bet it would make a nice Christmas present! Here's some pics.

[img]http://homepages.go.com/~kragaxe/temp/jimhelm1t.jpg[/img][img]http://homepages.go.com/~kragaxe/temp/jimhelm2t.jpg[/img][img]http://homepages.go.com/~kragaxe/temp/jimhelm3t.jpg[/img][img]http://homepages.go.com/~kragaxe/temp/jimhelm4t.jpg[/img]

Krag

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aetheric · Post by **aetheric** » Sun Oct 29, 2000 12:22 am

Hey, Jim! Is this the helm that you mentioned on the Regia list? Sweet. What did you use to line/pad it?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Oct 29, 2000 1:53 am

Not to bad. My congrats. For a first spangen it looks nice. Darken that galvy maile and it will look better. Oh well, just kidding.

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Garridan · Post by **Garridan** » Sun Oct 29, 2000 3:42 am

Wow... that's really good for a first helm... I hope I do HALF that good for a first helm (and I'm buying a top from Ron Simmons)...
--tom

JGraham · Post by **JGraham** » Sun Oct 29, 2000 4:08 pm

Krag - thanks for posting the pictures!

Aetheric - Yep, that's the one. The idea was to try and make something like the Coppergate helm (though no where even close to a replica). I haven't lined it yet - the white stuff inside of it is just a piece of an old mattress pad that I taped inside of it so I could wear it for Halloween ( [img]http://www.armourarchive.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img] ).

Dave - Give it a month or so and the maille will have lost its galvanized gleam

Krag's also failing to mention the fact that he walked me through every step in process and did a knock-up job of fixing the myriad of mistakes I made. He's a great guy to learn from!

Jim

Edric · Post by **Edric** » Sun Oct 29, 2000 6:31 pm

Great work Jim, It turned out great. I just hope my first attempt turns out that well. Though I am sure with Krag's help it will. If, of course, he doesn't kill me first.

Jeff

Dmitriy · Post by **Dmitriy** » Mon Oct 30, 2000 4:41 am

I haven't been able to access them.. did they get moved or something?

Angus MacBaine · Post by **Angus MacBaine** » Mon Oct 30, 2000 8:44 am

Umm, all I see is 4 boxes with x's in them.

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Edric · Post by **Edric** » Mon Oct 30, 2000 9:34 am

The pics aren't showing up right now because they are on Krag's page, which is on the GO network, which happens to be down at the moment. They will probably be up later on today again.

Jeff

JGraham · Post by **JGraham** » Mon Oct 30, 2000 3:03 pm

It's working again!

Jim

Dmitriy · Post by **Dmitriy** » Mon Oct 30, 2000 8:19 pm

I like!