In 2009, Chris sent me a picture of a suit he has wanted all his life....that suit included a really pretty winged helm.  This is what we came up with.

This was a fun project.  The wings were made here, and installed on a commercial CAS Hanwei helm.
This is only part way finished though...the points were a bit scary, and so we glued some leather on the back to provide some protection for the lady riding behind him on the horse!
The end result can be found by clicking on the picture below

A little more fluting, a little leather, and the wings look pretty good.

This is MY version of a Roman Helmet.  More trouble than I thought it would be, but satisfying nonetheless.
So, what is special about his helm?  Well, it is a full 12 gauge steel, made from a spinning.  To those whose backs go up at the very idea of a spinning being used to make a Roman helm, I simply refer you to this picture...

which is a Roman Helm I found in the British Museum.  A bit battered, but as you can clearly see, a STEEL spinning inside the helm, and gold plated steel fillling in the rest of it. 
So there.  neener neener neener

click on the above image to examine a much larger and more detailed picture.

more of my version below...