I need a bit of help with the sticker on the side of the hard hat .. I can not find a img of it any place. much less a high rez img of it … I have the hard hat and the light coming to me.. but i have no source for the sticker…
So Where or who on the board wip me up one … or point me to a clean img ???
Why did I pic the hard hat as my first GB prop… I just like to do the none main stream things
The sticker was not a part of the costume for the film, it was added to the helmet after the fact. Not sure why, possibly someone having fun with some leftover promotional stickers from the advertising blitz.
Watch at the very end of this clip, when Winston, Egon and Ray all turn 180 degrees. No stickers.
Now, Bill Murray has some stickers on the helmet he wears in the street scene, and so does Egon, but neither of those have a light on the front of them.
One of Murray’s stickers is this ‘No Bozos’ logo:
The other is a “100%” logo, but I haven’t found a perfect match yet. I found one where the red and blue areas are reversed.
Tomorrow I will get over to the shop and hit the hardhat with the safety yellow ..Then Thursday after the turkey coma I will go throw the hard hat around the wood pile ( yes wood piles do a great job of distressing painted surfaces in a very random way ) and mount the headlamp then power it up..
Then I’m off looking for the old new York central city of Albany…
Looks good so far. I had never thought about Ray’s hardhat being a white one that was painted yellow, but as soon as I consulted the pic of the one on display, it makes sense of how it looks in the film. Nice match.
Great to know someone is interested in this little build of mine…LOL
I took a better look at the river of slime clip … and he is wearing this hard hat as he is being lowered down ..But when he get to the bottom he is wearing the other one …
And by the look in all the scenes DA is wearing the same hard hat … So I wondering is and one has look up into the in side of the hard hat on display to see if it marked with DA name in it ???
This is not one of those notable props and that’s why I’m building it ..
To paraphrase Jake Blues: “That don’t look like no woodpile to me!”
It looks great in the vid, too bad about the clear coat.
But I think you’re right, sometimes there’s no other choice but to strip it back down to bare and start again… something I did to my proton pack like three times.
By the way, folks, ramcuda also pointed me to an Egon-style hardhat on eBay the other day, which I won for $1.99. Thanks!
Are you adding the weathering because you’re going for the look of the hard hat in the glass case or because you think it looked like that in the movie?
I had never noticed it until looking things over in this thread, but by the time they shot the tunnel scene (which was an added reshoot later in production), Aykroyd’s helmet did already have some scuffing that revealed the white plastic underneath the yellow paint.
Not as pronounced as what we see on the stickered hardhat on display, but it had begun.
