Neat Mediveal stuff

[Forward Observer]

Those helmets are way too cheap, they are either very bad, or miniatures scale.

I tend to agree, unless maybe they are close-out items. The seller is listed as a home decor company, so who knows. If you check E-bay there are quite a few similar prices for such items.

I paided close to $200 for my Pembridge great helm replica and $150 for a Spanish Combed Morion several years ago when I first got interested in armor. Several years later I found exactly the same Morion at a flea market for only $30 and a pig face bascinet for about $80. I also picked a nice butted chaim mail coif for only $30 at a yard sale of all places. I was married then, so I usually had to hide this stuff from the old battleaxe
until she no longer paid much attention to me regardless of what I came home with.

About the stuff on Amazon, I simply think the market just got eventually flooded with lower quality stuff (not Windless, but others) coming out of India, so there is a lot of inventory out there at rock bottom prices. They are not of superior quality, but fine for decorators.

I may order one of the Norman style nasal helms. At only $40 US I can't get fleeced too badly.


Cheers

[JCoyote]

Well as far as I'm concerned with armor, as long as it looks accurate, who cares? The only situation these days you'd use it in is mock battle. But if you aren't going to be doing that, just using it for costume at the occasional medieval fair, who cares?

Weapons I tend to be a bit finicky about because people tend to play around with them, and a poorly made one can actually hurt somebody when it breaks. And of course, I'm more likely to actually need the utility of any particular weapon, than I am to need the protection provided by historical armor.