Greek armour: Achilles

[Makedonia15]

loooooser lol

[Rastel888]

Thin layer of fiberglass resin and smooth it out with sandpaper spray paint it, and it will be nice and sturdy with a smoother roundness where its needed

[kingfbi]

@Rastel888

Thanks.

[ImaginedWriter]

Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures...

[Eurotrash4367]

You do nice work. You might enjoy this: Check out Hellenic-Art dotcom.

[kingfbi]

Thank you to everyone whos made a comment here. I appreciate the contributions.

[1981soa]

achilles was a real warrior, there are scripts in the middle east that discribe a scorpion-tiped poison arrow, peirced Achilles's foot, there starts the legend of the "Achilles heel"

[kingfbi]

@1981soa

Really? There are scripts that describe the real achilles? Ok, i will look into that. Thanks.

[jabaaes]

great job dude

[blairisking]

y???????

[drdenzil]

you have done that very good welldone

[kilbara12]

the horse hair is called the crest

[MrGlue42]

thats probubly the best cardboard armor ive ever seen

[kingfbi]

Thank you :)

[TAKEMARU666]

@kingfbi im going to be honest i think if i had a choice to wear cardboard armor in battle ill go naked!!

[kingfbi]

@TAKEMARU666

lol

[TAKEMARU666]

@kingfbi you did a great job tho i would not have the patience to make this.

[kingfbi]

@TAKEMARU666

Thanks dude. Yeah thats my character. When i really want to do something, i just do it. I dont think too much about the hardwork cos if i did, i would be put off doing it.

But these days, i want to make many things like a thundercat lion-o sword, a terminator skull, robocop mask etc

But im far too lazy now lol. I dont think i will bother making those right now. Far too much effort. I have made a batman one though and its on my channel

[kingfbi]

@TAKEMARU666

lol :p

[hellasspartan]

everyone thought that Troy was just a myth,until the german archaeologist Henrich Schleiman found the riuns of the walls of Troy in modern day turkey (these lands were Greek in those times and the Turks didnt even exist as a nation but were Mongol herdsmen).So if troy was proven to exist then why should we not accept that Achilles was real warrior?I believe he existed and just like Hercules were real people that became legends due to their great heroic deeds!Your cardboard helmet & armour 10/10

[kingfbi]

Thanks for comment. :)

[kingfbi]

Yes, troy is just another great city in ancient greece, troy area. So its highly possible that it was real, as well as warriors like achilles. he easily could have been a genuine real soldier in ancient times. :)

Thanks for comments.

[Regalya]

@hellasspartan Turks are turanid and been arround even b4 your so called greeks oh btw Trojans were Turkic too.

[Divinenite]

That looks really good! i thought it was made of copper or something because it was so shiny.

[kingfbi]

Thanks. I made it with paper and cardboard and then sprayed it with car spray. :)

I use the same method with the other models i made. Check out my batman one if you want.

[mabyepaulky]

really nice

[Mayor331]

nice made !

[dandersononutube]

Not a bad job, but I hope you know that this style of helmet is not really period. It is based on the "Corinthian" style helmet, which was used during the classical Greek period. This style did not exist at the time of the Trojan War, which was during the Mycenaean period. Unfortunately, movies tend to fudge on their history a lot.

[kingfbi]

oh really? I know history but not sure about this part u mentioned. i guess ur right. Thanks for info.

Movies do take liberties with their facts yes lol.

[gamaolas]

Yes dander is right. Brad Pitt's helmet (a very nice copy of which you made there) is loosely based on Corinthian-style helmet, that was just one of the variants of Greek helmets.

Mycenaeans that fought in Troyan war had more simple helmets, not saucepan-like exactly but more the conical type with a kind of crest identical to the later Macedonians, like an inversed half-U with no ponytail (in fact Macedonian hoplites just prior to Philip's reforms were fossils of the post-Mycenaean era!).

[kingfbi]

thanks dude. appreciate comments.

[EmotionalActor]

Would you be kind enough to show me what Achilles wore? I'm trying to find replicas to purchase. Mainly for me to wear. I know it's dorky but I just feel that I have to as a Greek. It's sad I know nothing about the original armor though.

[kingfbi]

Its not dorky at all. I love ancient warriors and military.

Achilles was not proven to be a real guy so its hard to say what he wore. But i assume he wore typical greek/trojan armour of the time.

But you can have a look at what brad pitt wore in the film and see. But i dont think thats accurate though.

[EmotionalActor]

True. But the sword was extremely awesome, real or not.

[kingfbi]

thanks for ur comments people. i appreciate it.

[Soccerfan198]

Awsome !

[scarve89]

wow it's a very good job :o

[kingfbi]

thnaks mate.

[jdoug312]

excellent job

[kingfbi]

thanks jdoug

[lordpreston8]

ok search up my vids to see it,and again that's quite some good armor

[lordpreston8]

NIce...i make samurai armor and well i have a huge amount of armor.

[kingfbi]

thanks. Would like to see ur samurai armour. :)