Inasrian said:If anyone here has seen the movie Gladiator the helmet that Maximus has in the colliseum against the chariots would be awesome! That would pone all the freaks!!!
Aqtai said:Hallequin said:Really cool stuff, except for this one:
Aqtai said:
Seriously, WTF?
And yeah, they really don't have much of a place in native M&B. I would like to try modelling one of those some day, though.
That helmet was part of a suit of armour that was given as a gift to king Henry VIII of England by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1514. Arguments have raged among historians as to why such a bizarre object should have been given by one monarch to another. These arguments have never been resolved. The armour did have another more conventional helmet though, both the other helmet and the rest of the armour were sold for scrap in 1649. That helmet is all that has survived.
Amman de Stazia said:To me, looks as though those eye-pieces may have held lenses (as in optical).
And ram's horns - the HRE could bestow the order of the fleece > ram > horns.
PERHAPS Henry had bad eyesight, so the elaborate helm was a way of giving him spectacles? And all the wierd stuff was just to distract from that fact?
Now there's an outside theory!
Aqtai said:I've not played version 0.890 yet (too much going on at work), so I don't know if any of thse suggested helmets have got into it. I would be grateful for feedback.
By the way has anyone noticed that the sallet and bevor is now in the lead? Mind you with only 14.9 % of the votes, it's hardly what you would call a strong lead.
doorknobdeity said:I too think of the armet as the iconic knight helm, even though I've apparently been calling it the pig-faced bascinet all my life.
rumpelstilzz said:I'd love to have a conquistadors helmet for heavy infantry / pikemen like
...or watch "Aguirre" for more similar models...
Swadia Nutt said:I voted Houndskull bascinet.