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Title: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: cheng on September 29, 2009, 04:48:01 AM
.....finally made Ashigaru hats...not a drop of glue on any of my klickies so far  ;D
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: cheng on September 29, 2009, 08:57:58 AM
a clearer shot;
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: Richard on September 29, 2009, 06:21:10 PM


FABULOUS, WONDERFUL AND MAGNIFICENT
... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/worshippy.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/worshippy.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/worshippy.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/worshippy.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/worshippy.gif) ...

Cheng, your Asians just keep getting better and better and better and ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/applause.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/applause.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/applause.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/applause.gif) ... (http://www.gardenwargamer.com/images/applause.gif)

Thank you very much for sharing your beautiful creations with us.

All the best,
Richard

Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: henry_martini on October 02, 2009, 01:45:08 PM
The result definitively justifies the sacrifice an old arab headcloth.
 :o

MAGNIFICIENT, if I am allowed to repeat.

H_M
 
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: Jimbo on October 02, 2009, 07:21:39 PM
Most excellent!  Very well done !

Best regards,
Jimbo
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: cheng on October 03, 2009, 02:40:15 AM
The result definitively justifies the sacrifice an old arab headcloth.
 :o
[H_M

thanks everyone!  :)
and Micheal....you condone my cutting and thereby encourage me to make yet another sacrifice?  ;D
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: henry_martini on October 06, 2009, 05:59:09 AM

thanks everyone!  :)
and Micheal....you condone my cutting and thereby encourage me to make yet another sacrifice?  ;D

Could you use a black one of the grave robber? But even in my mind they have always white ones. So please go one and show us the result.

H_M
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: cheng on October 06, 2009, 06:27:51 AM
Could you use a black one of the grave robber? But even in my mind they have always white ones. So please go one and show us the result.
H_M

that's why i'm still hesitating....its still a sin to cut old rare parts but maybe GB will reissue white ones  ;D ...and youre right.....all drawings seems to show their back-covers as white  ;)
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: henry_martini on October 06, 2009, 01:21:24 PM
With the new oriental special there is some hope for a arabian nights theme, of course with white head clothes, so there is no need to be too parsimonious after all.
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: baden-wurttemberg on October 07, 2009, 02:23:56 AM
Cool hats cheng!!!!





Baden
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: Timotheos on December 24, 2009, 11:36:52 PM
that's why i'm still hesitating....its still a sin to cut old rare parts but maybe GB will reissue white ones  ;D ...and youre right.....all drawings seems to show their back-covers as white  ;)

Hi Cheng your "Ashigaru hats" (jingasa) look fantastic!

As for the cloth hanging from the hats, I'm not sure what the origin or nature of the material was.  I suspect these were linen cloths worn for protection from the weather or thicker cloth in mock-up of the neck protection of the samurai helmets.

In any event, I don't think white was "a uniform standard" (if such a thing even existed) so whatever color you have on hand looks great!  (and probably reflects the reality--the cloth might even have been rags the soldiers mothers sewed for them!)

Tim

Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: cheng on December 26, 2009, 04:51:56 AM
thanks everyone!
and Tim, I enjoyed reading your comments!

..."Ashigaru hats" (jingasa).....

As for the cloth hanging from the hats, I'm not sure what the origin or nature of the material was.  I suspect these were linen cloths worn for protection from the weather or thicker cloth in mock-up of the neck protection of the samurai helmets.

In any event, I don't think white was "a uniform standard" (if such a thing even existed) so whatever color you have on hand looks great!  (and probably reflects the reality--the cloth might even have been rags the soldiers mothers sewed for them!)
Tim
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: GASPODFREUD on January 29, 2010, 11:19:14 PM
NO WORDS !! the best i've never see .........
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: WarriorOfToys on June 17, 2010, 05:20:53 AM
Awsome, awsome customs Cheng! :o
They are really superb Yariashigaru!!!
And I love the hats,
I would really like some on my Japanese soldiers...

How'd ya make 'em? ??? ;D
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: cheng on June 17, 2010, 09:57:07 AM
belated thanks Gaspodfreud !

and WOT...the hats unfortunately are not from Plasticards....they are from colored sticker sheets....cut out circles....slit along any radius and overlap until you get a cone...but remember not to make them too angular/sloped...maybe a 100 degree cone will do.

before these, I made quite many black and brown ones which you might have seen in my earlier Qing Soldiers thread (I remember discussing the making of conical hats with Tim in one of these threads)

...and milky white ones for my HK policemen....I have included a top view here if its clearer
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: WarriorOfToys on June 17, 2010, 07:53:30 PM
A very simple, but brilliant idea Cheng! :)
But how does it stay on? ???
Don't they just fall off?
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: cheng on June 18, 2010, 02:46:35 AM
But how does it stay on? ???

another small 'sin' which I have compromised with....i roll a small bit of blu-tack and push it into the tip of the cone...no klickies were injured in the making of the hat  ;)
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: WarriorOfToys on June 19, 2010, 04:33:45 PM
It is not a sin in my book,
I use tack stuff all the time to help keep my Klickies weapons from falling out of their hands,
To help them stand up in my movies as they do weird stunts,
Among other things.

Tack (to me) isn't a sin... it just a helping hand. ;)

Thanks for the help Cheng!
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: baden-wurttemberg on July 02, 2010, 08:08:31 PM
Excellnet figures Chen! Great job!


Baden 
Title: Re: Ashigaru's Hats
Post by: Timotheos on September 17, 2010, 11:27:32 PM
Heh, I've commented on these before, and wanted to bump them back to the top!