Hi everyone

Im a novice armourer making armour basically for myself. I have been itching to reproduce one of the face mask kipchack helmets. And wandering wether anyone can give me any hints on how to approach making the fluted sections on the pointed dome? (fig 2)
I am proficient in making spagens, and directely riveted plate spagens. Though this one is beyond me and would a appreciate any help.
I was thinking with the face mask that I could do a wax model based on the original face features on the face plate and and then make a wax negative wich I could get sand cast in steel wich then I could beat metal sheet into?

Any thoughts.

Hope this makes sense, english isnt my first language.

PS I have great pics of the original though they are very large.

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That is an interesting project and i look forwards to seeing what you come up with. I'm afraid i can't help you further, I have seen photographs and line drawings of these types of helmets, but most have been poor quality, so I can't comment on the construction. Will you be making a mail aventail and matching mail shirt as well?

Oh BTW I would love to see your pictures. If they are too big you could use a program like Adobe Photoshop or gimp.org to reduce the size. You could also upload the photos to a free image server like photobucket.com, which would automatically reduce the size of the photo.

Manning Imperial makes a Kipchak helmet similar to #2 above; you might want to contact them. I have one from ArmStreet, but it's without the cranial fluting.

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Will you be making a mail aventail and matching mail shirt as well?

I think lamellar would be the more accurate primary armor for Kipchaks (that's what I use for mine), though I'm sure a good many used some mail underneath it.

Hi Hisham

Great pics thanks.

Oh heres that helm with the maile shirt .

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