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Mini Football Facemask


montea6b

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I have one of those miniature collectible football helmets in the Seahawks old colors. I have never been happy with the plastic facemask that it came with. It is ugly and does not look like any style I have actually seen in use, so I decided to make a 'retro' style facemask in more of a lineman's big cage style. I bought some brass rod at the hardware store, and using the old one as a template, and by looking at old photos, I used hands and pliers to bend up some pieces. The trickiest part was the part that curves up over the brow.

 

Here are the starting pieces: (kittie can't wait to scrimmage...)

Pieces.jpg

 

Soldering the pieces together:

Soldering.jpg

 

Here it is all finished and painted next to the one it replaced:

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  • 4 weeks later...

So when you buy them they don't have the guard? Reminds me of a guy I know that has a Dallas Cowboys shrine in his basement.

No, they come with a guard. And some of them have more authentic ones, I just didn't like the one it had originally. (see last photo...)

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