How To Build Spartan Helmet Out Of Sheet Metal

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How to build spartan helmet out of sheet metal.

Cardboard spartan helmet looking real for the first sight but it is really fully made of cardboard. May 8 2013 how to make a medieval helmet from sheet metal. You are now the owner of an awesome sheet metal helmet. However having no armor i needed to make some.

Just like the spartan shield the helmet will be made out of cardboard tape glue paper towel and paint. Sandblast until clean wash off the sand hang in the oven to preheat then shoot it with powder and let dry. Making a paper template silhouette was a really easy way of making the shape of the helmet. No one doubts that you can beat so hard that the hammer will drive through the metal but if we make a helmet for a battle it is important that the metal retains its thickness and doesn t lost strength.

Just fold the paper in half and draw one side and cut. In this video we are showing you how to make a metal knights helmet from a 5 mixing bowl easy like us on facebook to see what we are currently working on. I used the multi cut evolution blades on the. I have been wanting to go larping live action role playing at shadowmoor a nearby larp.

No need to beat hard. Clamp the face piece onto the bottom edge of the dome and tack weld the seam. If you use hot forging then it s fine if the metal is drawn of 3 5 mm in depth after every stroke. I started with the helmet probably not the best idea because of it s relative difficulty then progressed o.

Alright so the ephialtes idea was scrapped because i wanted to make a spartan helmet leonidas it is.