Customizing my helmet

[hispano]

I really like your work because I've had to look for the same solution for the "pierced metals" (can't translate it) in the celtiberian daggers. In these if you don't put anything under you would see the dagger's blade through the holes, or if it is in the handel the sandwhiche's wood. If I paint the wood it isn't at the same height, so I chose to put coloured leather. You can see the result in these dagger's from La Osera (Avila, Spain) and Numancia (Soria, Spain) necropolis. Not everyone accepts this solution, but I think that the holes are to illuminate and give a decorative effect.

Same thing happens with the roman belts' pierced plates from republican age, I've seen some people put metal in them, but I think that their objective is to leave the belt's colour visible.

I think your solution is very adequate and they probably used it as you have in metal works, but because it is organic there are no rests left.