Fedoras hats look like the hat in the "before the temple" scene. The christies matches "Raven Bar" and the "well of souls". So I wanted a block that's a bit squary like Fedoras blocks, but has a slight taper not as much as the christies but enough to match the "Raven Bar" scene.
The "Winston 360" Topic from 3thoubucks helped me alot, because fedora posted a few a pics from the grey raiders fedora in the SOC scene. With that image in my head I tried to build my all time raiders hat block favourite.
I took my AB Dlx. apart cause after a wear in a heavy rain storm I forgot to push out the center dent. Let it dry and saw a bit of taper.
I knew, anything horrible would happen during the reblock, Marc could fix it. So I soaked the felt (it took minutes because Marc's quality fur felt) and pulled it over the block and then...
...TA-TA!
Here a few shots while wearing in sunlight.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... C00851.jpg
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff17 ... C00853.jpg
I know, Steve and Marc would say the hat has too much taper.
Aeris would say the hat is a bit too squary.
But for me it matches my favourite scene. There is not enough reverse taper in the back, okay, but I can live with that.
What is your suggestion? Please be honest. If you don't like it, write it.
