post thine synthetic visage
>>46415871
I've always wondered how the fuck can a person see through those small slits.
>>46415896
>>46415910
You have a better view then you think, but it does restrict vision quite a bit.
You could use a helmet like this, and infantry more often used such designs.
>>46415910
usually with their eyes.
>>46415910
Usually helmets with very restricted vision didn't have the visor down when in melee. It's more for protecting against arrows AFAIK.
>>46415910
Have you never worn shutter shades or something?
Like nigga just take two seconds to hold a couple fingers up close to your face
Then take another two seconds to put "helmet eye slits" into a search engine or something
Fuck it I'll even do that for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRhtshjpHs#t=13m33s
Mail me $20 an I'll even send you my instructional DVD on how to wipe your ass and solve other difficult problems in your life.
>>46415859
Show me something that can beat this in style, arms & armor fags.
>>46416953
I want to subscribe to your newsletter
>>46416983
how about this?
>>46416983
>>46417213
traffic cones?
>>46417439
Giant golden phalluses, because the other lords had been bitching that perhaps Masamune hadn't been spending quite as much as he should for the war effort.
>>46415910
Aside from has already been said, an important thing to bear in mind is the difference between original helmets meant for combat and reproductions.
An awful lot of the myths about the restrictions and clumsiness of armour are based on taking crappy knock-offs and treating them as representative of the originals.
Anybody can order an ill-fitting breastplate or helmet made in India from recycled cars and then make a youtube video proving how you can't see anything in a greathelm or whatever. Most reproduction armour, whether it is marketed towards LARPers or 19thC museums or collectors is not made by people who understand how historical armour functions or who closely replicate the design of the originals they pretend to ape. Bashford Dean has a hell of a lot to answer for.
The helmet in the picture is a dodgy reconstruction of a spangenhelm made in the 1920s. Pretty much any spagenhelm copy you will see today ultimately takes it's cue from this one guys interpretation of what a viking helmet might have looked like. We've now got good reason to believe this is wide-off the mark but I don't see the popular image of what these helmets look like shifting anytime soon.
With some notable exceptions; historical armours tended to work and if there is critical flaw in the preformance of your reconstruction then it might be an idea to check that if the issue is on your end before deciding that knights were drooling morons who had to be winched onto their horses.
>>46419635
>Anybody can order an ill-fitting breastplate or helmet made in India from recycled cars and then make a youtube video proving how you can't see anything in a greathelm or whatever.
You are just jelly of Indian craftsmanship
>>46419635
>recycled cars
>bad
The steel in those is amoung the best.
>>46419769
Lol
>>46417132
>that welding
>>46421195
yeah it was shit. I've got a new helmet since then, and did a few "tests" on the old one. That is, we put it on a concrete column and hit it with blunt swords.
>>46419862
HA xD good one. Read a book and get gud. That is far from truth, there bud.
>>46415859
>>46422011
what was this used for, historically? Actually curious.
>>46422753
It's later period tournament armor/footmen armor. It actually provides a very very good field of vision as the tiny scattered breathes function like a fencing visor. Only fault in it is that all the breathes reduce structural integrity.
>>46422827
Cool, thanks!
>>46418251
That looks like a repurposed welding mask. I like it!
I kind of have a massive obscured face fetish so this is relevant to my interests.
Dumping
>>46423655
>>46423682
>>46423717
>>46423768
Could've sworn I had more masks in my art folder
Oh well
>>46423655
wheres the rest of this collection? The faceless german looking soldiers in formation?
>>46423583
It's very Russian
>>46416948
Naked mermaid being torture raped by imps.
No one is hitting this guy.
>you will never live in a world where it's perfectly normal and socially acceptable to wear masks all the time
Why even live
>>46424048
>elevated postion
>goggles angled up
Unless I'm missing something this seems like a serious design flaw.
>>46416948
It's always fun seeing exactly where artists get their inspiration from.
>>46424295
Try Japan, gaijin-san.
Everyone packed like sardines in busses and trains in flu season made surgical masks popular and even expected, which opened the floodgates for allergy masks and fashion masks
>>46416953
>Mail me $20 an I'll even send you my instructional DVD on how to wipe your ass and solve other difficult problems in your life.
>>46426049
I'm aware, I meant more like full-face things like >>46415871 or >>46423804 type deals. Or even covering everything like in >>46423655
>>46426315
Try Indonesia, Machine56 is making some pretty dope helmets out of there
>>46426405
Fucking sweet
Do people actually just wear those around there?
>>46418467
lel, I laughed.
>>46426536
Probably not but I'm going to pretend they do anyway
>>46417132
I have this image saved. Remind me tho, is this you (hungarian) or was it a picture of gropey? I don't remember-
>>46426894
>>46426863
I'd wear suits like this all day everyday if it were socially acceptable.
>>46426936
>>46426931
my fellow weirdo
>>46426955
>>46426977
>>46427015
>>46426931
The trick is to wander around the touristy areas and pretend you're an art piece
>>46427056
now that pretty fucking cool, could totally base the attire of some order of wizards on that
>>46427053
>>46426955
You'd do the same?
>>46427082
I'm done
>>46427082
>The Most Excellent and Most Distinguished Order of Yeezus
mite be cool
>>46427124
I like you.Skype?
>>46427191
>>46427263
>>46427291
>>46427263
holy shit
>>46427228no thanks, unless you happen to live in Australia and play videogames, in which case, steam? just talking to people with no purpose makes me anxious
>>46427228
Not them but I also happen to be abnormally interested in armor and masks, eighty.conquests2
>>46427332
>>46427359
>>46427332
Sorry no steam. Good to see I'm not the only one really into fully-obscuring bodysuits though.
>>46427352
I'll add.
>>46427427
No prob
Have my albums of assorted stuff: http://smhtbhfam.imgur.com/
>>46422827
>reduce structural integrity.
I would NOT want to take a mace to the face with that helmet on
>>46427840
Why is Thanos's head flanked by two anguished Vikings
>>46427847
I would not want to take a mace to the face with any kind of helmet on
>>46428104
>>46428116
This reminds me of Berserk, I love it
>>46428249
I want it.
>>46416893
Given how easy it is to stab someone's face I doubt this is true.
It's not even too hard to get a sword through some of the larger eye slots.
At a certain point you're reasonably invulnerable in full gothic or a few prcursors so vision isn't as fully important as not having an open spot to aim easily at.
My bacinet for reenactnent is like pic related. Vision is still surprisingly good against guy your fighting but not as great in periferals. But that's what your buddies are for in a line fight.
>>46424364
When you charge forward with a spear/lance or whatever you lean forward. So you want your vision area to favour upwards a little so you can see other cav.
Look at a frog mouth helm for another example. Granted it is a tournament piece so you'd not need to worry about ground guys.
But also I don't see many cav charges happening during gas attacks so maybe this one was just ill fitting for still fighting in.
>>46428172
MYAH!
