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Making your own knight's helmet is simple and merely requires a few materials. The base of your helmet will be fabricated of poster board, but you can add together any type of textile onto the poster board that y'all'd like, such as foam or metallic paper. By cutting out a rectangle and teardrop shape before attaching the two together, you'll have created your basic helmet. After that, you tin add details like plumes or visors to make your knight's helmet exactly how you lot'd similar it.

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    Cut out a department of poster board that'due south 10 by 28 in (25 past 71 cm) long. This volition be the department of your helmet that wraps around your face up and head. Lay the poster lath flat on the table and utilise a ruler to marking a rectangle that's 10 in (25 cm) wide and 28 in (71 cm) long. Use scissors to cut out this department of poster board.[1]

    • Don't worry if the rectangle department is too long, you lot can trim information technology afterwards on.
    • Purchase poster lath from your local arts and crafts or big box store.

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    Apply paint to the poster board if you're not adding boosted layers. If your helmet is simply going to be fabricated of poster board, feel gratis to paint it a solid colour similar argent or gold. Utilise spray paint for a quick application, or use a paint castor and acrylic paints to paint the helmet section using even strokes.[2]

    • Employ 2 coats to ensure the affiche board is fully covered.
    • Let the paint dry completely earlier continuing to work with the affiche board. This should accept one-two hours.

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    Fold the poster board in half crosswise. Fold the poster board horizontally instead of vertically so that information technology opens like a book. With the poster lath folded in half, its new dimensions should exist 10 in (25 cm) past xiv in (36 cm). In one case the affiche lath has an even crease, unfold information technology and lay it flat again.[3]

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    Attach additional fabric to the helmet if desired. If you're putting foam or colored paper on your helmet to make it textured or colorful, utilise an adhesive like glue or tape to attach the cloth to the poster board. Make sure y'all don't comprehend up the fold you just created, lining up the paper or foam with the fold before attaching it.[4]

    • Flip the poster board over so that whatsoever excess foam or paper is visible, cutting it off using scissors so the poster lath and additional materials are in line with each other.

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    Form the pinnacle of the helmet in the shape of a teardrop. The top of the helmet is made by drawing a circle slightly larger than your head onto a piece of poster lath (and any other materials yous're using with the poster lath). In one case the circumvolve is drawn, brand a dot a few inches away from the circumvolve, connecting it to the circle using a ruler so that the shape now resembles a teardrop.[5]

    • You can find templates online for the top of the helmet to make creating it easier.[six]
    • Consider creating a double layer of affiche lath to make the tiptop sturdier.
    • Utilize a plate to help you depict a perfect circumvolve, if desired.

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    Create a slit in the helmet for the eyes. Hold the rectangle department of the helmet up to your face with the fold at your nose, figuring out where the eyes would go. Measure a rectangle that's roughly 5 in (xiii cm) broad and 4 in (10 cm) high—this will be your eye slit. Use scissors or a precision bract to remove the eye portion from the large rectangle.[7]

    • Make sure the center of your eye slit is lined up with the fold in the helmet.

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    Tape the sides of the helmet together then information technology's whole. Bring together the ii ends of the rectangle together, putting it on your caput or the other person's head to see where you'll need to attach it. Apply tape or a stapler to hold the two ends together.[viii]

    • To hide the record, put it on the inside of the helmet.
    • Masking tape or duct tape works all-time.

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    Slide the superlative section into the helmet to attach information technology. Remainder the sides of the helmet on the tabular array so it's sitting upwards direct. Slide the peak section of the helmet into the sides, lining the tip of the teardrop shape with the fold in the rectangle. Push information technology downwards until the top of the helmet is touching the table. This volition go far easy to hot glue or tape the ii pieces together from the within.[9]

    • If the top department is too large to fit into the helmet'southward sides, trim it using scissors.
    • If the top section is too small for the helmet'due south sides, y'all tin can either redo it and make it larger, or use a thick record to adhere it to the helmet'due south sides anyway.
    • Be careful if you lot're using hot glue, making sure not to touch the metal tip of the glue gun.

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    Create a visor for your helmet for a movable portion. Draw your visor in whatever shape you'd similar, making sure it has slits wide plenty for you lot to run into out of. Make your visor at least 5 in (13 cm) long so it covers the entire eye slit already cut out in your helmet, and fasten it to your helmet using paper fasteners.[10]

    • Expect online for visor templates that you just impress and cutting out, if desired.[eleven]

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    Add a feather to your helmet to create a plume. Choose a feather that's long and big in whatever colour y'all'd like. Create a hole in the superlative of your helmet, picking a spot near the border of the helmet and so that it doesn't poke the person who's wearing information technology in the caput. Utilize a pocketknife or sharp pen to form the hole before sticking the plumage within and gluing it in place.[12]

    • Experience free to add more than i feather to the helmet, or glue or record several feathers together to create a larger plume.
    • You tin can find feathers at your local craft or large box store.

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    Cut strips of craft foam to add particular forth the edges of your helmet. Measure out strips of craft foam to be roughly 1 in (two.5 cm) thick. Cut each strip out and utilise glue to attach the strips around the edges of the helmet. This makes the helmet expect more official and detailed.[13]

    • Use colored arts and crafts foam to give your helmet more personality, or paint your cream gold or silverish to match your helmet.

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    Draw a glaze of arms or some other object on your helmet to personalize it. Use a marker to draw designs on your helmet or a symbol such as a coat of artillery. Look online for inspiration for different coats of arms to draw and draw them in pencil first, if possible, in case you mess up and demand to erase.[14]

    • Utilize a blackness marker to add together details to your helmet, or employ lots of dissimilar colors to make your helmet stand out.
    • Pencil may not show upwards on foam, but you can e'er print out a template of something you'd like to draw and trace information technology using pen.

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