Visored sallet knight's helmet

A real 15th-century German sallet from a museum scan, with a visor that lifts, sized to your head.

Width x depth x height: 214 x 371 x 248 mm
Head circumference (mm): 590, with 12 mm of foam
Print time: 18.5 h on 4 plates
Filament: 735.2 g

Colourway

Dark gray main
Gold second
Red accent

About the design

A wearable sallet rebuilt from the scan of a South German helmet of about 1470 to 1490 in the Museum of Kraków: a skull raised to a keel and drawn out behind into a long tail, and a visor with an eye slit that turns up on two screws. It is scaled from your head's circumference so your eyes meet the slit, with room for foam pads, and twisted lining rivets run round its sides. The skull prints standing on its rims, the tail slides over a sleeve on the skull like a lame, and the visor lifts 70 deg on flat seats without touching the skull. Tree supports from the plate hold up only the insides, and a thin ring cut from the skull's widest part prints in minutes so you can check the fit first.

What you can change

Head circumference and the foam padding
Shell thickness
The tail's sleeve and its fit
The pivot screws and lock nuts

Specifications

Width x depth x height: 214 x 371 x 248 mm
Head circumference (mm): 590, with 12 mm of foam
Scale of the museum's helmet: 98.1 % across, 94.3 % up
Visor: lifts 70 deg on two ISO 7380-1 M5 x 16 screws with ISO 10511 M5 lock nuts

Printing

Plates, print hours and filament grams for each Bambu Studio project
Project	Plates	Hours	Grams
Visored sallet knight's helmet, PLA Basic	4	18.5	735.2
Total	4	18.5	735.2

Times and weights come from the Bambu Studio 02.08.02.61 slice at 0.20 mm layers. Each figure is rounded on its own.

In the room

Credits and licence

The form is the "Salada type helmet" in the Museum of Kraków (MHK 736/V), scanned and published by Wirtualne Muzea Małopolski (https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/salada-type-helmet-c1d459a7014442889b1729460b0e4228) under CC0 1.0. I made it symmetric, smoothed it, replaced its rivets, scaled it to the head, gave it an even shell and cut it to print.

Printing and fitting lessons come from W1cked's Crusader Helmet (https://makerworld.com/en/models/978834) and DeKorverArt's Medieval Knight Helmet (https://makerworld.com/en/models/2453165). No file of either is used.