New Helm - Pembridge Redux

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New Helm - Pembridge Redux

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Hi everyone!

If anyone remembers last (or thereabouts, might be two years now) I was looking to do a four helm project for a newbie loaner armour pool.

I had gotten to cutting out parts for two helmets, and constructing one of them when The Game of Life dealt an interesting hand.

Well, now we are settled to the point where I have some spare time again, I got around to making the second helmet with the cut out parts. Now I have been doing some minor stuff just for play, and I have developed a few new techniques (for me) to make quite a different helmet out of the same pattern parts.

I've learnt to both dish and raise, crease, and the bottom edge will be rolled to the outside. I have not welded the bar grille to the helmet face yet, that's the next step. I was still having some symmetry issues, but that is from the pattern pieces I have found. I've tried to compensate for the angles being a bit out due to the asymmetry of the flat sections.

While I have learnt enough to be able to build a proper Pembridge face, all the steel was already cut, so I went with what I had!

Pictures then, the last one being a shot of the first helmet from the pattern.

(edit ) I seem to have gotten the sequence backwards though...
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The last three pictures...
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