Making Hiccup's Leather Helmet From How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
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 Published On Feb 13, 2019

A few days ago, my wife, my son and I were lucky enough to get tickets for the premiere of the movie How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. We love the franchise and the movie was wonderful. It's the perfect ending for the trilogy. I highly recommend you to go and watch it.

As I was watching the movie, I started to wonder if I would be able to make Hiccup's helmet for my kid, and as soon as I got back home, I started working on this helmet. It took me a long time to figure out a design that would work from my memories and the few pictures I found online, but I think I got it pretty close to what you'll see in the movie.

I used 2.8mm/7oz vegetable tanned leather for all the parts of the helmet, except the little spikes on the side, for which I used 2.4mm/6oz veg. tan. leather. There are many ways to make a helmet out of leather. Personally, I chose to wet the leather and to shape it on a mannequin head which is almost the size of my kid's head.
The most difficult part was to carve the leather in order to make it look like dragons scales. It was a lot of work, but my kid loves it, so it was totally worth the time I spent on it.

I wrote an instructable explaining in details how I made this helmet, you can find it here (and if you like it, give it a like and a vote for the contest): https://www.instructables.com/id/Hicc...

This helmet is a unique piece, only made for my son. I don't have a pattern as I was prototyping it as I built it. The helmet is too small for me a slightly too big for my kid, which is a good thing, he'll be able to play with it for a long time as he grows up.

If you have any question, leave them in the comments, I'll do my best to answer them all. Till next week, keep making and thanks for watching!

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