08-20-2010, 09:22 PM
Excellent work. I like the tinning look.
I am trying to find someone who will put silver foil on my helmet so that it would be like the originals. I do not want to use modern plating since it would require my helmet to be coated with copper first. This being something that I do not think would have been done.
Anyway, it is a sweet looking helmet.
BTW, where did you get the coral? The only red coral I ever come by is dyed coral. I cannot seem to find Mediteranean naturally red coral.
I think however, that you could also have used some sort of enameling. Even if you did not use actual enamel but some paste that resembles it I think would have been fine. The reason I mention this is that Robinsons suggests coral but the original paper by Lindneschmit, to my recollection, only mentions enamel.
Brian told me that he has found objects that looked like enamel but were indeed colorful pastes not enamel.
Now all we need is a picture with you in all your kit.
I am trying to find someone who will put silver foil on my helmet so that it would be like the originals. I do not want to use modern plating since it would require my helmet to be coated with copper first. This being something that I do not think would have been done.
Anyway, it is a sweet looking helmet.
BTW, where did you get the coral? The only red coral I ever come by is dyed coral. I cannot seem to find Mediteranean naturally red coral.
I think however, that you could also have used some sort of enameling. Even if you did not use actual enamel but some paste that resembles it I think would have been fine. The reason I mention this is that Robinsons suggests coral but the original paper by Lindneschmit, to my recollection, only mentions enamel.
Brian told me that he has found objects that looked like enamel but were indeed colorful pastes not enamel.
Now all we need is a picture with you in all your kit.
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