In this armoring tutorial I’ll show how to make this Viking / Norman helmet. The historical name for this kind of medieval helmet would be "spangenhelm" or "nasal helmet". I made parts of this helmet in my previous video too. In this video I'll show you how to make the whole helmet and with the free templates you can make this Viking helmet yourself!

Spangenhelm type of helmets were a popular helmet type in medieval Europe with Vikings and Normans having their versions of it. There are many helmet variations of it which include covers for the ears etc. Usually the shape in Norman helmet was more conical than in this helmet I made, but you can make it like that by altering the templates. I showed how to make helmet templates in my previous tutorial. Also the noseguard can be made larger like it was made in some medieval nasal helmets. There aren't many examples of Viking helmets found and they weren't very decorated but I took some liberties making this.

This is a fairly simple helmet to make if you leave out the decorations, so it’s a good way even for a beginner to start armoring. It's made from 1,5 mm steel and the noseguard is 2 mm steel. That's were the name nasal helmet comes from by the way. The topmost part is made from four parts. I used a simple method to coat the steel to brass that I will show in this video.

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00:00 Intro
00:19 Making the helmet frame
03:03 Attaching the frame
03:31 Adding the plates to the frame
05:03 Making the brow piece
06:47 Making the nose piece
07:12 Attaching the brow piece
08:03 Making the "crown" piece
09:04 Shaping the rivets
09:37 Polishing
09:55 Making the brass coating
10:30 Riveting and assembly

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Free templates can be found here:
https://garageknight.wixsite.com/gara...

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