I made this DIY knight costume for protection in cardboard battle tournaments. I'll tell you how to make armor from cardboard.
As a reference, and to determine the correct names of Viking armor pieces, I used the following sources:
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Cut out the pattern from leather.
Well, it's time to take the leather out of the closet! Transfer the patterns onto the leather and cut out. I cut out the strip with a strip cutter, and the rest of the helmet with a round knife.
Then remove the edge with an edge cutter. I only remove it from the inside of the nose piece, but if you want, you can do all the edges on all parts of the helmet.
Transfer the holes onto the leather from the cardboard patterns and punch them with a punch. Don't forget to place a piece of leather under the punch so as not to damage its cutting part.
Next you need to assemble the helmet and try it on - to make sure for the last time that everything fits evenly.
Do-it-yourself hero’s helmet - ideas on how and what to make at home (photo and video)
As a child, who among us did not dream of being a fairy-tale hero whose powers would be limitless? After watching historical films, the boys dreamed of a warlike sword, helmet, shield and a faithful horse. Unfortunately these are just dreams. But dreams tend to come true, especially if they are cherished.
Having grown up and having children, many parents have a question: what costume should they wear for their child? For girls, the role of a princess with a beautiful fluffy dress is suitable, and for a boy, as a future defender, knightly armor.
Today we will talk about how to make a helmet of a Russian hero with your own hands.
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Do-it-yourself Viking helmet: we make it easily, quickly and from scrap materials
Often, events or photo shoots require props that are not available. For example, there is a Viking-themed party planned for adults, or a children's party with the same theme. It is quite difficult to find such a costume on sale, however, you can try to make a Viking helmet quickly and easily with your own hands.
You can choose the simplest option and make a helmet out of paper, however, there are several ways: papier-mâché, origami, paper modeling, and so on. The bravest ones can try crocheting a headdress, as in the picture above.
Working with paper
You can also make a helmet for a young Viking from paper; cardboard is most often used.
Take one large cardboard box, multi-colored tape in white, brown and gray, a knife, a glue gun, a measuring tape and use polystyrene foam for the horns.
From the box we cut out a strip 10-15 cm high, and the width is the circumference of the head. On one side we form cloves. Using this technique, the helmet will appear dome-shaped.
Glue the cloves in the center using a glue gun.
Wrap the workpiece from below with gray tape.
Cut out two pieces of cardboard in the form of a tiara, as shown in the photo below, and glue their edges together.
These blanks serve as the basis for the horns and therefore we attach them to the helmet using a glue gun on the sides.
Take another rectangular piece of cardboard and draw a face on it, namely eyes, as shown in the picture.
Cut it out.
Then we draw the bridge of the nose and glue it to the workpiece.
We glue the dome and the front blank together.
Draw the back part from the rectangle, cut it out and glue it to the helmet.
We also draw another piece, cut it out and glue it to the back.
We cut out a couple of strips and glue them to the top of the dome.
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We cut out the horns from polystyrene foam and attach them to the base, pointing down.
We cover the base of the helmet with gray tape and the horns with brown tape. We also glue it on the inside.
This helmet, almost like a real Viking’s, is ready.
Embossing.
Now I emboss the parts of the helmet. I use a basket stamp and a Celtic embossing set. I won’t describe it in detail, you can read how to prepare leather for embossing here – Preparing leather for embossing according to Bob Park, and how to apply embossing – here – Artistic embossing of leather.
A piece of leather - nose protection should be processed in the following manner. I make a cut for better bending and give it a rounded shape. On the eyebrows, on the inner side of the skin, I make dents using a stylus with a ball at the end and give it a convex shape with my hands.
