06-26-2012, 09:36 AM
You're not letting this go are you? lol. Well in that case I don't have an excuse, unless I could see some pictures of the original Guttman Italic H helmet and see just how thick those brass accents are. Failing that, I'll just have to hope that no one pulls out a measuring tape, but if they do I'll be inclined to tell them the newer Deepeeka model falls short a few ways too.
As I said, it is near impossible to replicate a specific helmet without having it custom made. Having a Gallic H in my collection, I can say that Robinson took too many liberties with his reconstruction, the cheek guardsa are based off of the Colchester findings, but hardly enough to conjecture a the whole cheekguard (plus why are they even on a helmet from Augsburg?). The original Gallic H was in such bad condition, I don't even know how much of the reconstruction is based off of the actual helmet.
The Deepeeka Gallic A's neckguard is too small in my opinion. Though it has been awhile since I have seen it on the database to compare right now.
On the NEW Italic D, we've already pointed out the overemphasized "notches" on the browguard, the overdetailed eagles, the incorrect earguards, and I just noticed the indentation on the top of the cheekguards that do not appear to exist on the original, not to mention the temple on the cheekguard is down too low and the tip of the temple should not touch the brass accents.
So we can play these games all day, even the N series of the Deepeeka helms fails to replicate small details. If you want to worry about these little things, it'll drive you and anyone else mad. The brass strips being a few gauges too thick is the least of my concerns
As I said, it is near impossible to replicate a specific helmet without having it custom made. Having a Gallic H in my collection, I can say that Robinson took too many liberties with his reconstruction, the cheek guardsa are based off of the Colchester findings, but hardly enough to conjecture a the whole cheekguard (plus why are they even on a helmet from Augsburg?). The original Gallic H was in such bad condition, I don't even know how much of the reconstruction is based off of the actual helmet.
The Deepeeka Gallic A's neckguard is too small in my opinion. Though it has been awhile since I have seen it on the database to compare right now.
On the NEW Italic D, we've already pointed out the overemphasized "notches" on the browguard, the overdetailed eagles, the incorrect earguards, and I just noticed the indentation on the top of the cheekguards that do not appear to exist on the original, not to mention the temple on the cheekguard is down too low and the tip of the temple should not touch the brass accents.
So we can play these games all day, even the N series of the Deepeeka helms fails to replicate small details. If you want to worry about these little things, it'll drive you and anyone else mad. The brass strips being a few gauges too thick is the least of my concerns
Quintus Furius Collatinus
-Matt
-Matt
