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I've finished a pig face bassinet :

2mm fort the helm and 1.5 mm for the visor :

C'est tres jolie!

Bienvenu, Sire Eric! Que vous vous restez ici longtemps, et ca vous servira bien.

A tall bascinet skull like that one would also go well with late fourteenth-century Scottish Highlands and Islands armours. They liked tall, pointy hats then.

Your workmanship is very good! We don't usually see such neatly done charnel-hinges on bascinets, and your forming of the bascinet skull looks as fancy as Burgundians would have done it.

Nice nice. Good job.

I love it. Nice work.

"your forming of the bascinet skull looks as fancy as Burgundians would have done it. "

I'm from Lorraine !
Bugundians are not ours friends in this times



But thank for yours compliments !

but i dont' know that good for Scottish Highlands and Islands armours !
i'm very surprised because i want making german helm

This helm looks great!

sire eric wrote:but i dont' know that good for Scottish Highlands and Islands armours !
i'm very surprised because i want making german helm

Okay, Burgundy and Lorraine fought a lot, back then -- I'll remember!

Yes indeed, armor in that corner of the British Isles was obscure, and nobody really knows a lot about it -- I think we know more about their swords, really. And there wasn't much of it anyway: a quilted cotun of cloth for defending the body from neck to knees, tall iron helmets of several kinds (the tall bascinet seemed the latest kind, possibly used through the fourteenth century and some of the fifteenth), which they called clogaids and some of which had a sort of quilted cloth camail made like the cotuns. Leg armor? -- except for the Anglo-Irish knightly figure carved into a pillar in Jerpoint Abbey in Ireland (and his helmet is an odd-looking thing too, with a clogaid-type finial in the form of a fleur-de-lys decorating its top), you can forget leg armor for that time and place. It might not have been a good thing to wear if you were always crossing the sea between one Hebridean island and another anyway...

All I can see is a little red X.

the quilted cloth camail made like the cotuns arrived !
i make this with big lin and litte lind padded with "chanvre" i don't know speak chanvre in englich

Hemp! The stuff of ropes -- and marijuana. Je ne savais pas moi-même. Beni soit mon Cassell's.

English... ca me souvient d'un jeste francais qu'etait dans mon livre d'école: "... même quand tu écris 'Shakespeare' avec un C H?"

German helms I've found are much more rounded with lower points, but also have beautiful curves. Very nicely done, though! For Lorraine, I think you're OK though, since it was an area in contact with France and Germany both. Please, share more of your work with us!

aumuse gamboisée :





must again sew this in the helmet

Very, very, nice!

D'habitude, nous disons "coif" pour "aumuse" -- c'est archaïque, peut-être? Je trouve "aumusse" dans la dictionnaire -- comme vieux vêtement de sacerdote qui s'appelle "amice," qu'est sûrement le même mot, anglicisé.

[Usually, we say "coif" for "aumuse" -- is it perhaps archaic? I find "aumuse" in the dictionary -- as an ancient priestly vestment called an "amice," surely the same word, Englished.]

Excellent.

Konstantin the Red wrote:

sire eric wrote:but i dont' know that good for Scottish Highlands and Islands armours !
i'm very surprised because i want making german helm

Okay, Burgundy and Lorraine fought a lot, back then -- I'll remember!

Alsace they did!

Oy.

Jolly well done.
Welcome to the Armour Archive.

Your helm appears history to me.
If I may suggest? More planishing on the helm and slack belt sanding/linishing.
The visor is fine.

Thank you for your contribution to the forum.

Hal

yes, I must progress has make on finishing
thank you for your comments
I am from Lorraine, not Alsace !

Konstantin the Red wrote:D'habitude, nous disons "coif" pour "aumuse" -- c'est archaïque, peut-être? Je trouve "aumusse" dans la dictionnaire -- comme vieux vêtement de sacerdote qui s'appelle "amice," qu'est sûrement le même mot, anglicisé.

[Usually, we say "coif" for "aumuse" -- is it perhaps archaic? I find "aumuse" in the dictionary -- as an ancient priestly vestment called an "amice," surely the same word, Englished.]

"aumuse" or "chaperon"

Are there any good picture references to armour from this area?

Edward

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:Alsace they did!

Did you make a French/English language pun? Ye Gods...

Tomburr wrote:

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:Alsace they did!

Did you make a French/English language pun? Ye Gods...

Or as the Gaulish city kid cried out in "Astérix et les Normands," "Mes dieux!!"

[quote = "MacTavish"] Y at-il des références bonne image de l'armure de cette région?

] Edward [/ quote

i don't know