Erwin Rommel's Iconic Hat

We will turn this East German hat into Rommel's iconic hat or at least try.
I want to transform this without destroying the original hat.

•Peak cap close to Rommel's
•Clear plastic
•Strap or shoelace
•Cloth
•Stapler
•Pins
•Yankee candle spray cap
•Aluminum tape
•White tape
•Red marker
•Aluminum can
•Pictures for references

From Photos I've seen it seems his hat was green but some show it grey. I went with grey because the hat I bought was $25 so I couldn't refuse.
The hat is an East German officer cap.
The second picture is a replica you can buy but I don't have that kind of money so I decided to make it myself. Rommel's has gold braids but I can't find anyway to make gold ones so I'll leave it silver.

Rommel's goggles were WW2 British eye shields and though they are for sale I rather save as much money as possible. I found a sheet of clear plastic that I traced a rough shape of the goggles. The strip of cloth is from old shorts and you just staple them on the plastic. I stapled the straps on cause I couldn't figure out anything else.

Now I don't own any Nazi pins so this was the tricky part, I only have 2 GDR pins that look like them. I took my GDR pin and cut a Yankee candle spray bottle cap to give it a blank center. I put white tape on it and colored it with red sharpie. I then got tin foil tape and pressed it on the pin to get the impression on the foil for a good circle. I them put the tape on and cut the edges. lastly I pressed the cap on the pin. With this cover I can keep the original pin undamaged.

I had to make a Nazi eagle pin from scratch. First I traced my eastern airlines pin for size and shape. I then transfered it to aluminum from a soda can. I left out all the detail cause I'm fine with the simplicity. Pin it to the hat and your done.

After you put everything together you should have a familiar looking peak cap. You can always add more detail to this but I was satisfied with how mine turned out. Now go command the German Afrika Korps in your panzer Kommendant.