The brim is too large on that hat.
Color need to be more olive

I just got a CY mask and the color in person looks close. It looks like it lightens up under flash photography. (On a sidenote I also noticed this is the version of the mask that was used at the start of the season. The later mask had a bit more point in the nose and a nice little cutaway where the nose meets the mask.) I really like mine.

The Evolution mask looks closer to the one used later in the season. I am almost sure the hornet sticker was gold foil towards the end too.

Scott, your Green Hornet suit looks real good to me.
Where did you get yours?

DK

DarkKnight69 wrote on 11/25/09 at 2:16pm:


Vickie and I pieced mine together back in 2006.  I found the hat off the rack at Baron's and had them change the band to a thicker one.  I know the brim is too big and I'll eventually correct that I hope.

The coat was a find at a Burlington coat factory outlet.  Vickie did some modifications to it to make it closer to the Hornet style.  The shade of green is a little too vivid but works well with the ensemble for now.  I had a swatch of green suit material I had sourced out after looking all around the Los Angeles area and the coat ended up being close enough for the short notice.

The mask is a CY one painted in Hunter Green.  I had to dremel the side ear pieces so that the mask would rest on my ears properly and rest against my face (I guess my ears set up higher to my nose than Van's).  That required me to repaint the mask myself although Clint had sent it too me in the same color prior to the dremel work that I did.

Here it is in 2006:

sporting my Billy Loyd gas gun (all metal and wood parts)

Here it is this past summer when I loaned it to a friend to join us at SDCC:

The color scheme was originally devised for promotional art for the radio show- only the hornet symbol on the mask itself (which was black) was green. The coat was camel (and an overcoat style, not the Chesterfield dress coat of the TV show), with a camel or silver felt hat.

This scheme appeared on early Golden Age comic covers, with first the hat, then the mask, coat, and finally the (originally black or brown) suit underneath all becoming green to simplify the comics printing process. If you want a clearly comic book look, an all matched green outfit achieves that. If you want to look like the character would in the real world, go with realistic clothes in traditional colors and the signature mask. On radio, it was the mask, not the outfit that indicated the Hornet's identity- people had to get a look at his face to realize who they were dealing with.
Van's suit was black for TV.

The NOW comics series put Paul Reid in a green trench coat, but off-the-shelf you're likely to find olive green the only green in men's coats.

It all depends on whether you see the Green Hornet as a superhero who wears a distinctive costume, or an undercover vigilante trying to blend in with the underworld while protecting his real identity.

I may be showing my superhero geek side but I think the Van Williams Hornet was perfect. Even though I actually like Rogen's look so far, with all the technology and modern advances I think it's a step back. Just my opinion..... That vest is a nice tip of the hat though!

P.S. Where'd you get that Sting Scott? Very cool!

Make that Bill the Bat, not Bill the Bay. Sorry Bill.