#jagermonster

Artfight attack on one of my friends with two of their jaeger ocs!

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Speedpaint on my channel!

Page 56 of issue 12 of the Girl Genius comic book presents three of the Jägershots strips out of a set of ten that were originally posted online and are included (in color) at the end of volume 9 of the graphic novel series. According to a note included with the printed version of the strips, this was before Girl Genius had become a webcomic, so there were no actual pages from the the main story on the website at this time.

See the alt text for a transcription of the text in the comic strips.

Visit our Web site to keep up with our doings, read free comics, download desktops, printable bookplates and other free stuff… or even order back-issues! The Jägershots strips aren't in any way a regular feature, but they're in there and we thought those of you who've never checked our Web site should know what you're missing.

And there is a nice sketch of a dingbot at the top of page page 56, which also contains the Girl Genius Secret Cypher Society entry for this issue.

I'm making a Jagermonster (from the Girl Genius webcomic) costume that can also function as a Steampunk / Victorian costume of an unspecified hussar (it's a type of light cavalry with really cool costumes). Of course, that means I need a nice hat.

A horde of Jagermonsters in varying uniforms.

To make life easier, I bought a vintage band hat (shako) off ebay. So this post is how that hat is constructed in case somebody else wants to do the same thing. I'm sure construction varies depending on company and decade, but this should give you an idea.

One of the ebay photos

The historical shakos were made of stiffened felt and leather. Naturally, modern ones are much cheaper. From the inside out: the base is molded ABS plastic. It's covered in twill fabric in two pieces - the top and the main part which is sewn in front with the seam hidden by the plaque (the big brass thing). The trim on top is also sewn in front, but the trim on bottom is sewn on one side. The whole fabric cover is glued on the inside and the outside under the trim pieces.. I suspect you could pull the fabric off to use as a pattern, but it would probably have some tears.

Showing the plastic body. Ignore the hole - I added that. The clothes pins are holding the headliner out of the way.

Over the twill covering goes the visor with the edge trimmed (printed on the visor is washing instructions: Don't.) Mine seems to be a layer of stiff card and a layer of vinyl. The visor is sewn onto the inside. Sewn over that is a faux leather (vinyl) sweatband with a headliner attached. The headliner allows some size adjustment. Mine is fabric - I specifically looked for that - but the newer ones are vinyl.

Photo from ebay showing the inside of the hat, with the visor, sweatband, and headliner, as well as a tag.

Inside the shako, with the stitching holding everything in place removed.

You can see how things go a bit better here, hopefully. The large hole is a vent that I suspect doesn't help much. The bottom hole I added, so ignore it. The twist ties show the position of the hole for the brad (see below). It looks like a button, but has long metal arms like a brad. Naturally, I can't get that so I'm using buttons and temporarily holding them with twist ties. The brad holds on the cord and the chinstrap.

side of the hat, showing the button-like brad

The last detail is the plume holder for the plume, pompom, or whatever decoration, which also secures the plaque. This is a flattened plastic tube that goes in a hole in the top of the hat.

the top of the hat

inside the hat, with a screw on the back of the plaque through a hole in the plume holder

The holes are far enough up the hat that you shouldn't ever feel the screw (which has a small nut that should go on there, but I didn't bother for the photos). The plaque can turn freely, but I suspect you could solder or glue on another screw to prevent that, since there are three holes.

I think that's everything. I've made a new pompom and I'm going to add fancier cords, like a military shako, that hang from near the top. I'm sculpting a new plaque using the old one as a base. Eventually I'll make a new, black leather visor, but I think I'm going to run out of time. This is my very rough and ugly mock-up (the plaque will look like brass, not embroidery). I'll probably also replace the blue trim with gold at some point.

As a joke to use as reaction memes in chats with my friends I started collecting screenshots of the Jaegerkin being... well kind of skrunkly/uncanny/little bit weird/Jaegers.

More beneath the cut. Lots more. I have a problem. I collect more on each reread and it's fun. (sorry for bad quality on them, some are just background weirdness)

Chapter 21: More Lost Than Ever.

Higgs was left to die--no, he was lost in Skfiander, which was once again lost to her, to her relief and pain anew--The Brek'kah stone was gone. The artifacts gone. Agatha had passed out for three days after Zeetha couldn't help her at all.

But now Agatha wake and they can move froward.