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Title: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir Edward on 2012-03-09, 19:43:53

Anyone look at these before?

http://www.wix.com/oneail/helmetcrests (http://www.wix.com/oneail/helmetcrests)

Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir William on 2012-03-09, 19:55:52
I plan on doing so tonight; I came across his thread on AA- the site's blocked but I'm interested enough to pursue at home.  Need that black griffin!
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir Brian on 2012-03-09, 23:11:20
Excellent find Sir Edward! They look great and seem pretty cost effective to consider using even in battle if you go with one of their production designs!  :)

I wished they did the griffons properly though! (They don't look like they have ears.)  :-\
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2012-03-10, 03:38:28
hoooo crap thats cool!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir James A on 2012-03-10, 04:39:59
Can't quite get it to work from my phone but I saw the lion crest. One please!
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir Wolf on 2012-03-10, 04:40:56
yikes kinda pricey but still major cool factor.
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir Edward on 2012-03-10, 15:09:09
Can't quite get it to work from my phone but I saw the lion crest. One please!

Their website is scripted up to be animated like crazy. Not surprising it doesn't work well on phones. Give it a try from home later. :)
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir James A on 2012-03-12, 00:02:16
Just checked it out. The prices aren't as bad as I expected, considering that the price includes hand painting in your choice of colors, too. I think I'll be picking one up in a month or so ... whenever I feel like starting another project without finishing 5 others. Maybe April. :D

Also, that gauntlet and hammer is epic neat.
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir John of Felsenbau on 2012-05-11, 16:38:06
As you can see from my knight of the week topic...each helmet has it's own crest based on the crest of that particular knight. Needless to say, my house if FULL of crested helmets.

Sir John
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Thorsteinn on 2012-05-11, 19:16:39
They're certainly cool but I'm hesitant to put a target on my head after the concussion I got from the daneaxe last Sunday.  ;)
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir Edward on 2012-05-11, 19:47:59
Sounds like you need a crest that looks like concentric red and white circles. :)
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir James A on 2012-05-12, 02:35:37
Sounds like you need a crest that looks like concentric red and white circles. :)

A Target logo?
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir Edward on 2012-05-12, 02:50:53

A "strike me here" target. :)
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir James A on 2012-07-11, 23:01:46
Just checked it out. The prices aren't as bad as I expected, considering that the price includes hand painting in your choice of colors, too. I think I'll be picking one up in a month or so ... whenever I feel like starting another project without finishing 5 others. Maybe April. :D

Also, that gauntlet and hammer is epic neat.

I was a little slow and I think I ordered it in May, and received it a few weeks ago, but here's my thread with it:

http://modernchivalry.org/forum/index.php/topic,1999.0.html (http://modernchivalry.org/forum/index.php/topic,1999.0.html)
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir John of Felsenbau on 2012-07-14, 14:05:51
Ny own helmet has a red hawk's head as the crest. That's the synbol of the "McNicol" familt to which I have direct desent and am a member of the US section.

Sir John

By the way, the McNicols, oruginally were of Norwegian Noblity who came to settle Northern Scotland.
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir William on 2012-07-17, 20:57:06
Ok, just sent the funds for mine...excited!  Now, I just need a helm for it to go on.  Anyone got any suggestions?
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir John of Felsenbau on 2012-07-22, 17:03:52
Sir William,

Guess it depends on what you want...or if your ancestory had a crest. I chose the red hawks head because of my distant McNicol relatives. In my movie about knights that I laready made, I didn't know a lot about knights...I used a bucket for a helmet, but it came out really good. I put two purple wings for the crest...since my surcoat was and is purple.

Sir John
Title: Re: Knightly Arts, helmet crests
Post by: Sir William on 2012-08-09, 16:01:49
My ancestry's hard to plot out...a full half of my ancestry were slaves brought over to the New World, no records were really kept with regard to names, surnames (if they even had one), original homelands, etc.  That's just on my father's side.

So, I've taken the dragon as the sigil of my house and my coat of arms I've applied to have registered with the American College of Heraldry, should that ever pan out.