Anyway so I went about figuring out a few of the basics of Dr Grants hat from the first Jurassic Park movie. Could not find any information about it online so to the DVDs I went. I found that his hat changed about as much from scene to scene as Indy's does in Raiders. I got the basics down though, palm leaf body, tear drop crown, wide brim, tight pinch, horse hair band under an inch wide.
So I ordered an open crown palm leaf body 5 3/4 inch crown height and 3 1/2 inch wide brim. The band is braided horse hair in black brown and white. I got the body completely soaked, I was actually surprised how water tight the crown was, I filled the inside with water and barely a trickle was coming out. It took all of a couple minutes to get it shaped up for this first time. I'll fine tune it more later.
Next up I need to dirty the thing up a bit maybe grind a bit of fossil dust in
Anyway before anyone says this thread is useless without pics here they are. The first ones are of it open crown, then it shaped, then one of my Akubra Fed to give a sense of scale.
So what do you think?
