Diving Helm

A steam punk based diving helm.

This helmet is homemade, constructed from high-density foam and a clear plastic dome.

The construction involved lots of contact adhesive but was relatively simple in shape and form, preformed foam hexagons help decorate the construction

 

The final result was then painted with flexithane paint mixed with brass powder pigment.

I finally added a couple of pieces of flexible plastic conduit sprayed with brass paint to provide the helmet's mock air supply.

Paper Ghandhi Cap

This an extremely easy to make origami hat

Use a piece of A3 paper for child versions (bottom cap of the image below)

For the adult version that fits me, I cut down a piece of A2 to 495mm x 355mm

You can find many tutorials on youtube or elsewhere just search for Paper Gandhi Cap and it will find half a dozen.

 

Play Hat

 This not a play hat but a hat from a play, was used for a production of the King and I

Homemade from a cardboard tube, covered in shiny fabric and sequins. 

Held on to the head with an elastic chin strap since the diameter is too small for and adult.

Came as part of job lot of hats but I think this is one only suitable for the bin, not worth saving for anything.

Yellow Snood

This is about a basic snood as you can make. 

Used for a group post-apocalypse extremist lrp characters

The snood in this case is a rectangle of fabric joint at the short edge, raw edges have been left.

Snoods are often forgotten useful article of clothing you can wear as scarf, hood, they can tidy up the edge of many costumes

The Cone Head

The Cone Head

The picture below makes me think I should have a fishing rod and be sitting by a pond as a gnome.

A piece of paper wrapped into a cone and held together with a couple of pieces of sellotape needs no origami skills.  

The cone can be painted, a brim added to make it into a witches hat, a D put on front for dunces cap, good fun for very young kids or quick fancy dress wear.

As you can tell I spent nearly a minute making this hat.

Tin Foil Hat

The Tin Foil Hat

Almost every house must have a roll of aluminium foil, it needs no skill to make, just drop a large enough piece on your head and shape, if it does fit add more.

The idea of the tin foil hat is it protects your mind against electromagnetic radiation, mind control and mind reading.

To have any effect against any form of electromagnetic radiation it would need to be in several hundred layers, probably need to be built up to a couple of inches thick, as to the need, well we all live fine without them.

The use against Alien mind probes, Govemenent telepaths is of course just rubbish conspiracy theorist and probably a result of popular science fiction books and literature.

Knotted Hanky

The Knotted Hanky

Basically a fabric handkerchief with a knot tied in each corner.

This was a staple emergency hat to protect the British Holidaymakers from the sun when I was much younger. 

I have an image of Grandad wearing one during a holiday.

Basic Origami Hat

The most basic of all origami hats involves 5 simple folds and makes a kind bicorn like, hat as below

This was made using a sheet of A2 sugar paper, A3 would make a child-sized hat.

The paper needs to be rectangular, not square.

(newspaper works just as easily)

Fold the paper in half (the fold line is across the shorter size)

Position the fold at the top 

Then fold the corners in so they meet in the middle as below

Fold the top layer of bottom edge of the paper up, over the folded corners

Then turn the paper over and fold the remaining edge up

That's it your done you now have a hat.