Aesthetic Helmet Thread

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Bucket helms were not actually very good helmets, but pretty slick.

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greeks were real dickheads

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a good ol' fashioned bronze gladiator helm for me
>still sexy after all these years

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My favorite

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>>1508941
literally a gnarly black déldo on the desk

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>you will never operate with FAP painted on your forehead

>>1508951
>>1508941
Brought to you by bad-dragon.com

>>1509394
where is that from?

>>1509594
It may be a Thracian helmet

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>>1509834
inside

>>1509903
"u fokkin wot m8?"

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>>1509646

It is a Thracian helmet

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>>1509941

I fucking love classic helmets

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>>1509948

Bronze > steel

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>>1509957

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The frog helm definitely, makes you look like the flyest dude at the tourney.

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Not a Nazi. Honestly. I just really like the Stahlhelm.

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got an unironic love for the morrion teebeehache

>>1510006

That's a WWI model so no nazi

>>1510168
I know, was just making sure i didnt get shat on by the anti fascists on this board

>>1509813
this

>>1509915
i fucking what about what?

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take yer pick

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>>1509374
Persian?

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not even memeing

>>1510961
it's the vendel helmet, so no, norse.

>>1510961
vendel era norse from valsgärde burial site, sweden.

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chain mail is best

>>1508752
>>Bucket helms were not actually very good helmets, but pretty slick.

Why's that?

>>1511065
as a helm they're fairly effective but their instable by design, because instead of being tight form fitted and shallow the helm's deep

>>1511065
Hot, heavy, obscured your vision and were shit at deflecting blows.

>>1511054
didn't help him too much

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>>1511088
>mfw

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>you see taneti
>when you wear pufferfish on head like me
>enemy not strike for fear of stinging

>>1510928
Awful design. Looks like a fucking emoji.

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Where all my Boeotian boeoys at

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>>1511364
My nigga

>>1510238
I was describing the look on the helmet's "face"

>>1509387
Good taste lad

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>>1508951
Well, Yes, its a helmet made by Ugo.

what dod you expect in the background, Kittens?

I would post some of Ugo's corsetry, but this is a blue board.

Suffice it to say he makes some spectacularly pretty, and exceptionally pervy art, as well as being one of the best armourers alive.

He's a good bloke.

Have a Dargen great helm by Jeff Hildebrandt, instead of Ugo-Porn. Its nearly porn, after all.

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>>1511376
>tfw you will never supply your men with such a helmet

>>1511145
...is that actually a pufferfish?

>>1512946
>meesosolly.jpg

>>1512946
"I broughtuh deshonoru to my famiry"

>>1509821
Fucking hell.

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>this thread

>>1511074
yes thats why they used them for somthing like 300 years

>>1513698
no they didn't actually less than 30.

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hai guise.

>>1513808
Proof got any proof?
or source

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who /frog/ here

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>>1513856

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>>1513861

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>>1513877

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one of my favourites

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>>1513808
less than 30 is a bit over-optimistic, but its certainly not 300 either.

the earliest great helms are in the likes of the Maciejowski bible, C1240, and they survive in use till about 1350, in the form of the Pembridge Helm.

they evolve during that time, developing a more conical upper section and curved top, from the flat helms of the Maciejowski era.

if you're referring to just the flat topped helms, like the dargen, then yes, those do only last a shorter period, but its not 30 years.


anyhow, have another helm type entirely.

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>>1508730
>>1509310
>>1509813
Vendel era Germanic helms are objectively the best.

Honorable mention to Slavic war masks and Roman cavalry masks.

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>>1514226

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>>1514230
Literally fucking Rohan

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>>1514241

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>>1514244

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Slavs had some cool mask helmets

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>that glorious moment when crests came back into fashion

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>>1514253

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>>1514260

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>>1514254
I always thought Rome was overrated, but their cavalry masks were sp00ky

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>>1514262

>>1514303
>fucking Mongols stay on your side of the river
>Rus and their boats I swear
>why has orthodox Constantinople fallen
>we're never gonna hear the end of it from those Catholics

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>>1514303
C-can you do it with this picture too?

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>>1512881
>>1511376
>>1511364
Does anyone know a good place to buy this type of helmet?

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Chinese war mask is intimidating.

>>1514400
I bet they could see nuffing with that mask on.

>>1513818
that shit's real? i thought it was only on dark souls

>>1514266
uncanny valley is strong with this one

>>1514230

is it just me or is this the image of sheer murder and bloodshed

>>1514448
It looks kinda comical to me

>>1511054
nice teeth

>>1514448
Are you a Briton?

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>>1514448
The fuck

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Medieval Swedish helmet. Must have looked pretty good back in the days.

>>1514402

That's why the face is mad

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>>1514254
>IIII

>>1514519

I think late Romans might have been dyslexic

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I like the helmets House Bolton uses

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>>1515910

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>>1515919

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>>1515925

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>>1515927

>>1515930
*Ahem* actually that's the style of helmet all northerners wear...

You'd of known that if you weren't such a pleb

>>1511145
In all seriousness would a dried out pufferfish offer any protection?

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>>1515954
Is it the same style? What style is that?

>>1509823
bucket helm is best helm

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Kettle helmets are nice.

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>>1514387
> tfw its 8400 Denarii...

https://www.medievalarmour.com/c-787-greek-helmets.aspx

>>1516010
Ive seen it for much cheaper on kult of athena and other places

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>>1516008
Even the Thai know the aesthetic of Kettle helmets.

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>>1516035

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>>1516036

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>>1516039

>>1509821
>>1509830
>>1514266
>>1514400
These would be terrifying on the receiving end.

>>1514448
That outfit is really ornate. It looks like regal german attire rather than a suit made for gettin killy and stuck in.

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Why don't you put mollusks on your war helmet?

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Rabbits are better.

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a best

>>1509606
my person of subsaharan heritage

>>1516047

that thing looks heavy as fuck

also giraffe neck

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something about the mempo (japanese war mask) speaks to me

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>>1518337
also i'm a sucker for place plate helmets

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>>1516572
Because I got my lobster. Nice and cozy.

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>>1509387

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>>1514241

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a coffee maker

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Great thread.

>>1510172
I'm leftist as fuck and I'll fully admit German military aesthetic is fucking gorgeous. In fact one of the things I hate most about neo Nazis is that they make it harder for me to properly nerd out over cool WW2 shit

I have a hard time believing even half of these being real. Surely the more ornate and insane ones would have been mostly ritualistic?

>>1519817
Which ones in particular do you have an issue with?

Also whenever and wherever you are in history, people like to look cool. What they think "cool" is exactly changes but the fact that everyone wants to look cool doesn't. Poorfags might be limited to putting some feathers on their helmet whereas the richfags might have some totally bitching looking custom thing going on.

People get into their heads that anything that looks even slightly fancy is "ritualistic" or "ceremonial" or something. You can tell if something is ceremonial if it would be literally impossible to wear in battle. You can see this in things like German Funeral-helms, which are made of very thin low-grade iron, and Swiss parade armor, which you can't articulate your arms properly in, or English bearing swords, which are just sized up versions of arming swords without any accounting for a point of balance, or a Ghanaian royal dagger where the guard is literally made out of a gilded piece of fruit. These are always exceptions, though, and for the vast majority of ornate arms and armor, they're not ritualistic or ceremonial, they're just both fancy and functional.

Think of it like guitars. What's the point of shelling out 50 gs for a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop if you never play it? It's a totally functional guitar. The equivalent to historical ceremonial arms and armor which are ornate to the point of being useless in battle, would be a guitar made entirely out of gold.

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>>1519817
You telling me this isnt a GOAT battlefield helmet

>>1519817
these ones are not real (in the sense of being original genuine ones, or decent quality replicas:

>>1509606
>>1509810
>>1509886
>>1510928 (duh)
>>1515910
>>1515919
>>1515925
>>1515927
>>1515930
>>1517671

thought you could argue that the Game of Thrones stuff there is a cabasset with a bit of dodgy proportion in the brim.

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>>1518850
Pretty cool, desu ne.

>>1520481
Are you retarded? why do you think >>1509810 isent historical?

>>1511065
Flat top means that the top and the front form a 90 degree angle, which means any weapon hitting that joint, while it is a strong joint, would apply all of its force onto the wearers head. Also, flat top means that downward blows landing directly on top, rare in combat but common in sieges because of stones and such, would break the wearers neck.

>>1509813
My stupid senior English teacher kept saying these were the inspiration for Darth Vader's helmet. Annoying as fuck.

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M1 helmet.
dem clean as fuck lines

>>1509819
This always reminded me of the Uruks in LOTR

>>1509829
Fucking Faraans legion man

>>1514230
I always found how flat the face was to be goofy as fuck. Can't take it seriously

>>1514427
It was also gifted to Henry VIII by the
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>>1519436
16th century helms, especially these ornate ones, are insanely beautiful. Iirc they were inspired by helmets of antiquity due to the whole renassiance thing

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>>1517027

>>1521250
wow, the resemblance isn't even canny!

>>1520862
How would they be?

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>>1519817
Armour didn't just serve practical purposes, the greatest of armourers were considered artists, and they put a lot of effort into shaping steel creatively. This kind of 'costume armour' was worn at societal events rather than battlefields of course and it had mostly ceremonial and plain aesthetic purposes. However, they still put a lot of effort into making it practical enough that it still deserved to be called armour. So even though many of this kind of armour would be impractically shaped and to a certain extent inhibiting, it would still be protective, assuming someone would actually dare wear it for battle. Someone who could afford this kind of armour could also afford a regular, practical field armour though, so that likely wouldn't have been the case.

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>>1514260
>>1514262
>slavic
those are turkic masks senpai

>>1516008
Underrated post!
>>1514400
YOU SHCARE MY WAH DANCE MONGORIANS?

>>1520862
lol what a cunt

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Slavic (Polish)

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>>1522367

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>>1522430

>>1517030
>You're relaxing in a pike schiltron
>This guy rides up and slaps your infantry's collective ass
>What do you do

>>1521834
the style was shared across that region but the Slavs who wore those spent their spare time killing T*rkics, so its forgiven in any case

>>1514519
It's because IV is how you start writing Jupiter, and it was inappropriate to start that and not finish.

And that's why 4 was written more often as IIII than IV.

>>1526439
nifty

>>1520865
Too bad the bad of the head is completely exposed.
The stahlhelm is objectively superior

>>1509116
adrians are great

>>1509813
this tho

>>1514226
>>1514230
>>1514241
>>1514244
>>1514245
>A Sword day! A red day! Ere the Sun Rises!

>>1528433
*back

>>1509310
Hey guys, new to /his/ here but god damn that is one of the best helmets I've ever seen. Fucking gorgeous.

I can't fucking see - the thread

>>1518344
>>1519417
For some reason I just love those helmets. What are they officially called? I only see stuff like duckbill helmet.

Guys, I think I have a plate armor fetish. What do

>>1514254
That IIII though lol

>>1519817
>mostly ritualistic

What do you think war is, pleb?

Just a bunch of plebs killing each other?

>>1531450
>>1514519
IIII and IV were actually used interchangeably a lot of the time. During some periods there was even a preference for IIII

>>1531408
well im not sure, its basicly just a norman helm with a face plate, so i wouold guess somthing like norman helm with visor

>>1531408
>>1532566
i had a look around google and norman plate helmet seems to be the most used term

>>1528433
The M1 helmet does cover the back of the head when worn with the original type of liner system. It was only with P64 liner was the place of the helmet changed to sit more straighter on the head thus changing the coverage.
And since the image limit was reached, here's a link to a pic showing off the intended coverage of the M1 helmet: http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/woundblstcs/chapter11figure307.jpg

>>1508752
They fixed them with the sugarloaf design I believe.

>>1517681
holy shit this is terror

>>1509811
*deep breath*
HRE as fuck

>>1515969
The northerners wear bascinets or sallets without a visor it seems.

>>1524972
>shared
slavics literally picked it up from turks, just like arabs in the levant after the seljuk invasion