For the Batavi among us......Daniyal and Jurjen do it again!

[john m roberts]

Will it be silvered or tinned? In the photo it looks rather dark.

[jvrjenivs]

Will it be silvered or tinned? In the photo it looks rather dark.

In the photograph it is just rusting metal, but delivered it will be tinned. Check this photograph of my prototype next to the original.


This is due to expenses. As we can't supply silversheet like the original we decided to get it tinned.

[D B Campbell]

Although I have to say I can fight perfectly in my secutor helmet, which is also pretty closed and this one also has a good fit.

Sven-Ole Thorsen seemed to manage okay. :wink:
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[Vindex]

Give us some time please. We're doing our best to get it happen, but doing Cavalry re-enactment is quite something different.
Although I have to say I can fight perfectly in my secutor helmet, which is also pretty closed and this one also has a good fit.

You mistake enthusiam for hassle!

[scott]

Are these going to be going on general sale??

[jvrjenivs]

Are these going to be going on general sale??

I don't think so, but you can order one through me. I've send you a PM with pricing.

[Peroni]

Perhaps if Jurjen allows, we could do some retail?

It would save complications with import VAT etc.

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

I think it also depends on Daniyal's time...

LOL

M.VIB.M.

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

Using that well made helmet as a basis, i have covered it in order to make a helmet similar to the Xanten/Bonn one.

This is the helmet, not completely finished.






I have add some touch of colour (wool covered hair horse). As the original lacks the frontal band, i have try one with some olive wreath, very used in cavalry helmets.

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

I have to thanks Daniyal and Jurjen for the magnific work made in that helmet. And Jens Horskotte for some help about the original one.

[jvrjenivs]

As I commented earlier, very well done, sir! You now only got me frustrated about the lack of something to show from my hand from the Nijmegen ones. Indeed the Xanten version is a bit easier, so I think I'll make one of that one too, perhaps.

Maybe I'm able to show some more in due course

[john roberts]

Will it have plumes when it's finished?

[LUCIUS ALFENUS AVITIANUS]

No plumes. If we follow the cavalryman depicted in funerary reliefs, no plumes were used often.

[jvrjenivs]

Well, finally I can show you some progress. We've been working hard to get all decorations right, and still are having several problems with making the Kops Plateau design. However, as a testpiece, I can now show a 'sneak preview' of our version of the Xanten bowl. As the decorations on this helmet are much simpler, it was an easy alternative to try different things, before we're getting back to the Kops Plateau helmet, which will be next, and hopefully completed later this year.

And the sneak preview: We've just completed the basic layer.

[M. Demetrius]

In the North it would probably be just fine, but in Egypt (or Texas), yikes: a cranial oven, to be sure! There would have to be some kind of way to keep the heat from hitting the metal. Possibly that's why they put the hair over it?

That's as good a reproduction as anything on the market, and better than many! Great work, and thanks for your patience, Jurjen!