05-29-2012, 04:24 AM
Quote:The costs of helmets at http://www.replik-online.de blow my mind. £1400 for an Imperial-Gallic helmet? Even more for a 3rdC heddernheim!Actually, stuff like this is, to ME, wrong. WAY wrong. When you look at the original helmets, esp. the Gallic "G" on Roman Hideout, that thing is crooked as a politician's heart. Modern stuff is WAY, WAY too nice and pretty. Too uniform. I know, some will hate me for saying that, but I just think that the real stuff was kinda crappy and if we had a time machine, modern reenactors would NEVER buy the stuff they had then... they want "pretty" and "uniform" and not looking like it was beat out in a shop in India -- actually stuff from India is way to nice too. Nero would JUMP at the chance to outfit his legions w/ that stuff.
If they can charge such prices, I guess people, somewhere, are buying them. I say this because, perhaps with my untrained eye, they look as well made and accurate as helmets sold elsewhere for a tenth of the cost.
My 2 silver pennies on this. ~Marsh
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Legio IX Hispana www.legioix.org
Alteris renumera duplum de quoquo tibi numeraverunt
"A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.... But then I repeat myself." ~Mark Twain
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