Fed 4 turned into the LC hat.

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Fed 4 turned into the LC hat.

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Hi guys.


Not long ago i said I was to rebash my fed 4 standard into the LC hat. I really like the LC hat. but not as much as I love the SoC hat of course ;)

well today I had it finished.

this is my favorite look for the LC hat. the really beat up and broken in one.

Bear in mind, getting the angles and the shadows to fall right is very difficult to get right. these pictures were the best out of the lot.

please tell me what you think :D


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Looks great Eric! You really have an eye for this. The LC hat has always been my least favorite of the bunch. The only two scenes I actually liked the hat in are the bike chase and that one that you pictured. Great job!

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Thanx Dave.

Im trying to build a super SA LC outfit. thats why I wanted to remake the fed4. at first it was bashed in CS style. but I wet it down and took the pinch and bash out. LC is better for this type of hat I think.

thanx again
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The CS hat really needs that taper free block. The Federation doesn't have that. It does however lend it self perfectly to the LC look which you have pulled off in spades. And you've also proven that in the right hands, the Federation can make a great Raiders hat too.

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yes, it can pull it of.

I must admit I was very shocked how easy this was compared working on the SOC hat. :lol:
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Yeah, I've gotta say, Holt... really, REALLY impressive job there!
I'm with Dave in that there's only a couple of times I really get to liking the look of the LC Hat in the movie (and the look I like is what you've managed to nail down!)
GREAT work!
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The SoC hat has many factors to take into acount, as you well know. This hat is all about how you crease it. No need to worry about bulging and mushrooming felt. That isn't to take away from what you've done here. Creasing a hat to exact dimensions is not easy. You are the best on these boards that isn't a proper hatter.

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Indiana Holt does it again.
a perfect match.
well done :TOH:
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Very nice work, Holt. I had given some thought to making a Fed into my LC hat. This certainly proves that it can take the look.
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Thank you very much :D

yes. its one of my favoite looks aswell. I tried to get the chunky pinch look you have on your hat. But I didnt like the way it made the fed 4 look from the front. so I decided to go for my other favorite look. the poster hat. :tup:

here is picture I took two days ago. here you can see it has a much chunkier pinch. sorry its the only picture I have of it when I tried to go for the chunky pinch look hat.

sorry for my stupid smile, my girl said something really funny which cracked me up big time.

dang! I look like a cross between dicaprio and julia roberts or something. :lol:
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thank you. its hard to photograph them perfect. I think I take 40 pictures to get one angle right. :lol:
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How did you guys get the curl so great? Just manipulating it with your hands?
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yep. just working it with my hands
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methinks turned the hat is...
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nope. no turn in this one ;)
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Your hat looks great Holt!! It's nice to see some LC hats on here once and a while.
Well done. :clap:
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Indiana Holt wrote:nope. no turn in this one ;)

you, sir, have the touch.
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Awesome fedora Holt! It's amazing what you can do with the Fed 4.

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Awesome fedora!! Great job! :clap: :clap:
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Thanx my friend.
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I like the LC hat even if is not my favorite hat.

I love your front picture. Good Job Holt!

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Holt is the most talented hat basher I have ever seen. Great LC hat!
really like the Last Crusade hat, but more from this image:
That would be an HJ, whereas the one Holt copied on the top of this thread was probably the Stetson that was placed in the film. Fedora
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Thank you Steve.. :D

I just really dont care for how I wreck the hat..... maby thayts my talent? to get them looking like Indys fedora they need alot of beating....I dunno...maby..

But what I can tell you is that I am a virgio and virgio's are very obsessed with details and keep going until they have it done right..... I can confirm this cuz I really cant sleep if I dont get the smallest detail right :lol:
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Yep, and that's what we love about you. The rugged drive to get the smallest detail down pat.

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Hi Holt:
plese more pics , youre hat its nice, great job, I have a HJ and youre hat its probably the right model to bush my HJ.
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Indiana Holt wrote: I just really dont care for how I wreck the hat..... maby thayts my talent? to get them looking like Indys fedora they need alot of beating....I dunno...maby..

it's all in your butt Holt. You must have the right shape and weight on your butt to give the hat the right shape when you sit on it.



;)


"Crack the Hat/Crack it" is a good expression for that way of distressing i think :P :Plymouth:



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Chiliana Jones wrote: it's all in your butt Holt. You must have the right shape and weight on your butt to give the hat the right shape when you sit on it.
:rolling: :rolling:
Think folks will think twice about sending him hats now? :lol:
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send me your hat my friend...and Ill bash it for you for free with skid marks and all... :lol:
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So the hat wasn't really brown originally at all, was it?

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:-0 =; :lol:
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no it was a grey Indy travel hat.....

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There's a Grey Poupon joke in there somewhere... :lol:
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So the grey one was really brown and the brown one was really REALLY brown?

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DR Ulloa wrote:So the grey one was really brown

nah. it was grey. it just hadn't been sat on


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