Missaglia workshop - renaissance armour project

By far the most important regions of armor production in Renaissance Europe were northern Italy and southern Germany, with workshops from both regions exporting their products throughout Europe. Probably the most dynamic center of armor manufacture during the fifteenth century was the Italian city of Milan, home to the earliest comparatively well-documented family of armorers, the Missaglias. This prominent family produced at least four known armorers—Tommaso (recorded 1430, died 1452), Antonio (recorded 1441, died 1496), Giovanni Angelo (recorded 1496–1529), and Damiano (recorded 1514)—and their workshop appears to have exported armor all over Europe. During the sixteenth century, Milan housed the workshop of the Missaglia descendant Filippo Negroli (ca. 1510–1579), who may be regarded as the most skilled, esteemed, and famous armorer of his age, perhaps of all time. Together with his relatives Francesco (ca. 1522–1600), Giovan Battista (ca. 1511–1591), Alessandro (ca. 1528–1573) and Giovan Paolo (ca. 1513–1569), the Negrolis produced sumptuously decorated parade armor for the Holy Roman Emperor, the dukes of Urbino, as well as the French and Spanish royal courts. At the same time, however, the urban and courtly workshops of Brescia and a number of southern German cities had successfully challenged Milan's dominance.
(Description form the site of "the Metropolitan Museum of Art").


...here a first attempt to reproduce some early-renaissance Italian helmets. I modelled some different versions of the "Barbuta" helmet, also known in Europe as "Italian sallet". Each helmet is protraied in three different variations: plain, crowned with a "mazzocchio", and circled with a turban.

https://img264.imageshack.us/img264/...sa01tt7.th.jpg

https://img185.imageshack.us/img185/...sa02uy8.th.jpg

https://img86.imageshack.us/img86/10...sa05ec5.th.jpg

https://img83.imageshack.us/img83/13...ta02zm8.th.jpg

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https://img88.imageshack.us/img88/38...ta04dc1.th.jpg

Looks very good, IMO the best version is the second.
You'll probably decrease the poly number later on, because it looks to many right now and might give different perspective.