So there I was looking along my games shelf thinking of a simple costume design to do and I got the idea to make one of these hats which makes you into a sim along with whatever clothing you're wearing! This is a semi-easy build and you may well have most of what you need lying around, but it may or may not take longer than you'd expect it to and it is quite meticulous to do so read all these instructions carefully.



In this design the plumbob is detachable so if you like you can attach other colored plumbobs onto the hat and you can use the hat without the plumbob on top, so it's still perfect for those business meetings! This is only the first complete iteration (aside from the last step and a couple of other tidbits) of this so if anyone has any suggestions as to doing things differently in a better way then feel free to post in the comments.



You will need:



- 1x 4 or 5cm long by 0.8 or 0.9cm wide metal coil/spring (although more of a coil than a spring since you do need a fairly high amount of rigidity in it)

- 1x 1cm wide set of gripper snaps and an extra 2 male ones (so three male and one female)

- A small 3 or 4cm length of clear plastic tubing which just about fits into the metal coil/spring (heat shrink tubing may also work since this tube is just there to add rigidity to one end of the coil)

- A typical baseball cap, which includes those 6 small holes going around the hat (which you don't mind drilling a small hole on top of and gluing some pieces to)

- Some Araldite glue (I've found this dries really nicely in that it's not brittle when it dries, plus it's strong)

- The means to print off the two parts (one matte coated A4 page each) of the papercraft plumbob

- Scissors, 2x pliers, some regular glue and a marker pen

- A drill with a drillbit that's just larger than the hole on the female gripper snaps (this is so that the male gripper snap connects properly into the female one when the female one is stuck onto the top of the baseball cap

- Something you can carry around which will fit in between the male/female gripper snaps when you want to remove the plumbobfrom your hat (I used a strange blank, very thin key I found, as seen in the photo, nobody I asked knew what it was though)

- A strip off of a polypropylene sheet (basically a bendy plastic, often used to make binder folders), about 4cm wide and 19cm long

- Two small rivet pieces (with holes about 4mm wide) that fit somewhat into the holes that go around your baseball cap



Now onto the making part itself...