I am considering buying an armour from the late 14th century.
I've made some thoughts about how I want it to look like, of course, and then I've come up with a question:
How was the padding for a late 14th century bascinet?
Some look like there is a thick layer of padding, so you feel like you are wearing a motor cykle helmet, and others, like Tobias Capwell's, look like there's only a small layer, and that you rely on the hardening of your helmet to take the blow from a sword/lance etc.
I know that mr. Capwell's armour is a later type than the late 14th century, but you could imagine that the same type of padding were used.
Does anyone got something to say about this subject?

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Notice the padding seems to be very thin.

Just found a picture of a bascinet with thick padding, from the skillfull armourer Grzegorz Kulig :)

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An example of thick padding.

I think we have a few remaining liners from late 14th bascinets. I could not find them where I thought they were but I cannot find my Churburg pictures at the moment.

My take is they usually range from around 3/8-5/8 of an inch. You have some variation. I have seen some liners from other helmets that were higher up to around an inch and lower but I figure that a decent average.

RPM

Alright. So you would say that you easily could make a thin layer of padding to a bascinet from 1400 for example?

From my collection of somewhat anonymous images. I am not sure who this is but I believe it is early 15th century Burgundian:

Image removed until I have permission to post

Philip the Bold. died 1404 Musee des-Beaux Arts, Dijon Burgundy. Photo by Matt Easton

Do you have the rest of the series? Matt took them off line a while ago.

Mr Easton was very generous and seem to have no problem with me posting. So here are a few images showing the padding and a top down shot of the bascinet.

To my eye the padding of the aventail is quite thick.

mackenzie

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It is quite thick indeed - too bad the effigies will remain out of public sight for the next two years.

I lectured about them nearly 4 years ago now, and several pics of the inside of this bascinet were included in the article I wrote for the publication that was supposed to follow the conference....and of which I have no news.