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MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« on: 2012-09-21, 18:19:33 »
Link: http://www.museumreplicas.com/p-1011-tudor-close-helm.aspx

Just received this helmet an hour ago. It fits me almost like a glove! I'm actually surprised by the fitment. I also got the plume, which did not come with the helmet (the red feather is on backorder). The cheeks hinge fully, the visor can pivot fully, and the sneck hook for the checks fits and moves well. This is not an easy helmet to make, nor a cheap one to have made, so I took a random shot on this since I was quoted over a year before completion by Jeff, and after some back-and-forth details with Clang, I got no response for ~6 or 8 weeks and sent a few reminders to no avail.

Worst case, this would look pretty awesome sitting on the armor stand. But it fits, so huzzah!!









It comes with the "standard" spider-style liner, so it's adjustable. The quality is very good for the price. There's only a few nitpicks on it, and they're both circumstantial - I wish it had brass rivets to match the rest of my armor (which is fixable) and it didn't fit the gorget I have (nor did I expect it to!) ... but that just gives me a reason to order another gorget, doesn't it? The visor opening is *very* small, which I may just grind out slightly for better vision, since I won't have live steel blades swung at me; most of the visibility is actually through the breath holes now. The way the visor sits, it feels almost like a joust helm, where you would lean forwards to charge and target, then lean upright before impact to prevent any King Henry style joust incidents.

Overall, very happy with it for the price - which is $30 off right now, and I had a 10% coupon code too!
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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #1 on: 2012-09-21, 20:28:39 »
You mean you have a rig already ready for that thing?  Can't wait to see it!
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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #2 on: 2012-09-22, 07:37:51 »
Huzzah and congratulations on a very sweet acquisition!  :)
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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #3 on: 2012-09-22, 10:07:05 »
Thats really nice, much better than I thought it would be, I actually planned on getting this exact one a while ago and still want to but money money money.

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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #4 on: 2012-09-23, 03:37:17 »
You mean you have a rig already ready for that thing?  Can't wait to see it!

Mostly the one I wore at VARF, but also with the pike/haut guards on the pauldrons now, too.

Don't know why the pictures are rotated sideways, they're vertical on FB (where I linked them from)
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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #5 on: 2012-09-23, 12:33:33 »
You mean you have a rig already ready for that thing?  Can't wait to see it!

Mostly the one I wore at VARF, but also with the pike/haut guards on the pauldrons now, too.

Don't know why the pictures are rotated sideways, they're vertical on FB (where I linked them from)

When I saw them on facebook they were sideways too.

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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #6 on: 2012-09-23, 19:57:26 »
they were sideways but now vertical on FB

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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #7 on: 2012-09-24, 19:45:49 »
When I saw them on facebook they were sideways too.
they were sideways but now vertical on FB

They uploaded sideways and I rotated them when it saved the upload. Dunno what was going on, but posted them to my personal site and updated the first post with clickable thumbnails.

Darn technology.
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Re: MRL Tudor Close Helmet
« Reply #8 on: 2012-09-25, 04:40:27 »
Looks great, a truly awesome helm!  :)
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