Sweet! You can make an Egon hardhat as well as a Ray one.
I myself just nabbed a head-lantern off Etsy the other day. Still no hardhat of this style yet, but I’m looking.
And I’d still love to find one like Venkman wears in the street scene.
Alex
what head lamp did you get ?
Looks to be the same model as yours, from what I can tell.
Alex
ya you got the right one …here is what i have found about justright … headlamps are the same from the 1930 all the way up tell they stop making them.. the only change was the battery boxes … the down side i can not find and replacement parts.. just bulbs …
Ok … wow done … not happy how it came out but Done none the less
First the weathered one
Now my untouched one…
More picks can be seen here
http://s169.beta.photobucket.com/user/ramcuda/library/GB%20props
Ok so here is all the base part info
the hardhat is a Eastern Safety Equipment Tuf-E Hard Hat
The headlamp is made by
JUSTRITE ELECTRIC
of course all these can be found on e-bag…
I know i have been getting a lot of PMs asking me for the info…
So there it is … what a fun project … any Q just post them …
They both look great, but I think the unweathered one is my preference.
Questions: What brand of paint did you use the second time around?
How difficult is it to adapt the headlamp to accept the screws?
What kind of screws did you use? (I should consult the pics of the actual prop, I guess.)
Alex
This is awesome!
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Hay Alex
if you look at the bracket from the back the big hole in the center of the bracket .. you need to drill that open a bit .. enough to pass the wire threw … dont for get to drill the same size hole in the front of the hardhat .. ( see pick on photobucket )
the tabs on the bracket where the head strap hooks… the little stud it catches on to … get wire dikes and snip off the post. now do the same to the other side…
Now drill out the holes left in the tabs to fit a size #8 wood screw …
dewire the wires from the battery box … pass the wire threw the hole in the back of the bracket and then threw the the hole in the hard hat … then wood screw the head lamp to the hard hat…
I take the wire and run it over the top of the hard hat liner and drop it out the back …
The paint it Krylon yellow … LET IT DRY FOR THE 7 DAYS !!!
***** LIGHTLY SAND THE HARDHAT FIRST *****
I know the Krylon said no sanding needed and this is true for most things …
I just noticed that Egon’s headlamp wire goes in at a higher spot. Looks like they ran the wire, then masked off the headlamp when they painted the hardhat yellow, because the wire is yellow here but it’s black as it comes out of the back.
Alex
Great find!!! Now I need to redrill and touch up …
Also, I think the image shows rivets holding the bracket, instead of screws.
Dang it … yes there are two hard hats
Yes Egons has the wire running threw the hole higher in the helmet … and may have rivets …
BUT !!!
I was going after this look
to look here i can see if the one that DA has on has the wire threw the higher hole..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7Nh2BB7NyPM
I dont see it here,
Well i have two hardhats done .. the one that DA has on , I’m close for sure …
So if someone can for sure show me there are rivets on Egons hardhat ill convert my 2nd hardhat over …
is clear to see that there was probably at least two prop builders put on the task of building the hardhats …
Ok so this thread is come back to life due to new info …
Ok you all did it now …
you got me all wound up.. I can’t leave things alone now …
What it with all the miss drilled holes in both the two hardhats ? … I know these are fast dirty props but come on !!!
Alright where is my drill at ? …
I also noticed that Egon’s hardhat when they’re in the subway tunnel doesn’t match the one he had in the Van Horne tiled chamber.
The chamber was shot first, the train tunnel was added very late during reshoots to heighten the scares/tension.
Maybe the one Aykroyd wears in the tunnel was previously worn by Ramis for the Van Horne scene.
To make matters worse, Aykroyd’s helmet in the Van Horne scene is not the other Tuf-E.
Alex
Ok what is the van horn seen
Ah, sorry, that was sort of ambiguous. I meant the scene where Egon, Winston, and Ray enter the “Van Horne Pneumatic Transit” tiled chamber on foot (and fall into the river of slime) but yeah, there is the other scene when Ray enters it through the hole in the ceiling and takes the slime sample, and he’s got different hard hats from shot to shot for that scene as well.
Curse you, GB2 continuity person!
Alex
Alex you have a Jackson Safety Sentry hard hat
so for the street scene ( who told you to stop cutin )
Egon is waring a Jackson Safety Sentry hard hat / no lamp
Ray is waring a Eastern Safety Tuf E hardhat / with lamp
Peter is waring a ???
In the train tunnel and same in the Van Horn scene
Egon is waring a Eastern Safety Tuf E hardhat /with lamp
Ray is waring a Eastern Safety Tuf E hardhat /with lamp
Winston is waring a Jackson Safety Sentry hard hat / with lamp
the scene where they lower Ray
on the way down its the Tuf E
but for about 2 seconds about the time he yells SLIME it a unknown hard hat( SEE PIC ) …
(Tuf e has 3 rectangles on the sides the one at this point only has two )
and when he gets the sample its the Tuf E again …
Here’s a visual guide to all the yellow hardhats worn by the four GB’s in Ghostbusters 2.
In the street scene, shot in LA, Aykroyd wears an Eastern Safety Tuf-E, Ramis wears a Jackson Safety Sentry. (ID’d by ramcuda.) Murray wears an as-yet-unidentified hardhat with a vaguely spade-shaped flat area above the bill. Only Aykroyd’s Tuf-E sports a JustRite headlamp in this scene, while Murray and Ramis’ hardhats sport various stickers.
When Aykroyd is lowered into the shaft, shot on a soundstage, his Tuf-E changes to a different lamped hardhat and back-- TWICE!
On this fourth style of hardhat, note the single low ridge down the middle and the somewhat triangular boxy areas above the temples.
Later in the film, when all the GB’s except Murray go into the subway tunnels, both Aykroyd and Ramis wear Tuf-E’s with headlamps. Hudson wears a fifth style of hardhat, also with a headlamp.
The details of this hardhat are almost backwards from those of a Jackson Safety Sentry. Note the pointed stripe on the back of the ridge, very similar to the front of Egon’s hardhat from the earlier street scene.
Another tiny continuity error… for one brief shot during the severed head scene, Winston’s hardhat is missing entirely.
The train tunnel scene was the last scene shot using the hardhats, during reshoots done months after principal photography. It was filmed in a NYC nightclub that contained old subway tracks.
Note the amount of yellow paint that has flaked off of the two Tuf-E’s, both of which were originally white.
The next scene edited, back on the Van Horne soundstage set, was actually shot much earlier.
Egon is still in a Tuf-E, but now Winston and Ray are both wearing 'number four style' hardhats with the single ridge down the middle. Egon's Tuf-E in this scene shows no damage to the yellow paint job.
So, by my count, assuming that Ray and Egon are simply swapping two Tuf-E’s around to account for the different wire placements, there are a minimum of seven hard hats in all.
Venkman’s with the ‘No Bozos’ and ‘100%’ stickers
Egon’s Jackson Safety Sentry with ‘Runway Visual Range’ and other stickers
Ray’s Tuf-E with JustRite headlamp
Ray’s alternate single-spine with headlamp
Winston’s train tunnel hardhat with headlmap
Egon’s Tuf-E with headlamp
Winston’s alternate single-spine with headlamp
Alex
Alex
Ok i should import all my info to you when poeple ask and let you do the visual guide …lol
Great work on that … people like you end up making life ezer for everyone …
I just nailed down the Winston hard hat with luck i can run down the mystery hard hat that’s in the later scenes …
I may never find Peters hardhat … I’m having a friend in Canada look around there for it .. it might be an import ..
Alex .. when are you going to post pics of you full Egon street scene outfit ? YO !!!
PS.. I just got asked " what are you going to do with all these hardhats ? "
Great I need a good answer quick …
Ooh, can’t wait to hear what the Winston hardhat was!
What amazes me is that I had never even looked on my Egon hardhat to see what the make was, and sure enough, you had it exactly right. Mine’s a Sentry III, to be precise.
I did think about doing another Egon pic when I found an old flannel shirt the other day that vaguely resembles the shirt/jacket he’s wearing in that scene, but a) I haven’t printed out labels for the hardhat yet and b) I grew a beard over the holidays and it wouldn’t look right in an Egon pic, LOL.
Hey, did I tell you I found a pic online of a Tuf-E that was yellow? Were they ever manufactured in that color, or was white the only option?
The ‘what are you going to do’ question sounds like my wife…
Oh, I know. Just tell people it’s for a Village People cover band. No wait, that would only be one, wouldn’t it?
A Bob the Builder cosplay?
Alex