Plastic Fury

Great work! Congratulations!!

That is a lot of great work paying off, congratulations on your approval. Truly, brilliant work.

Congrats on anohter year Rick!

I used the black RIT dye method, was not hard to do and they came out great looking. Four years later, they look even better as the Florida sun has done a really nice fading job on the dyed pouches, the tops are lighter tha the bottom and they look beautifully weathered now.

Looking good, congratulations!

Are you coming this Friday the 6th? I am there all weekends, it would be nice to meet you, if you are coming. SWW is a blast and we all have such a good time, both at Disney and quite a bit of partying at the Ramada afterward lol. Hope to see you out there.

Here was the group shot from the Saturday, of Weekend 1.

Welcome back..............they always come back haha. I am in the same boat, retiring my setup after SWW and then building new armor. Times have changed and it's time I do the same. Good luck!

Happy birthday Rick!

Looking good, the sand texture is a nice touch. Good luck!!

Hey guys, the time has come for me to build a completely new Sandy. My armor is getting old and needs to be updated, while I am at it I am going to be upgrading my pack as I think I'll be going for SWAT now (been deployed for a few years). I have a crashman pack kit that I built following Scootch's tutorial (which has held up amazingly well through years of abuse) but the faceplate is not as nicely detailed as all the radios I see now. I am looking to replace the face plate and am wondering if somebody can point me in the direction of who to contact about that? Thanks!

Nice work, always fun to see a scratch build like that. Good job!

Haha, serious trooper is serious. Lookin' good though.

Happy birthday, sounds like it's been a good one!

I'll be going as well as another Deployed squad mate, we are setup to volunteer for the Tattooine display on Saturday afternoon. I'll keep an eye on this for more details.

Congrats on your deployment, looks great!!

Congratulations on all your work, looks great!

Congratulations brother, it always feels so good after all the hard work!!!

It is really very simple brother, all you need (or need to borrow lol) is a drill and a rivet gun/rivets. I just drilled the small holes and then used a rivet gun to toss in the rivets. The hardest part is to get the backing washers, down inside the pouches ( the lower two attachments). I just used a flathead screwdriver and scotch taped the backing washer to the flat blade, slid it down in to the pouch until it lined up with the hole, held it in place and then tossed in the rivet with the gun and done. Really easy, I swear lol.

Really? I dyed both of my canvas pouches with Rit black dye and had no problems like that at all. I just used warm/hot tap water and a big bucket, the pouches were submerged for an hour or so maybe. I did beat up the leather before dying though, for a nice weathered look, not sure if that made any difference. I rolled them numerous times, sanded them, etc.. before dying. There is a thread I made for it somewhere but I have had NO trouble with the leather, the pouches I have must be about two years old by now maybe, and still working just great.

Happy birthday Juan!!

I'll be there all days that weekend (fri/sat/sun) but I only live about 3 hours from Disney so it's not too bad. Pretty much all of the FL 501st stays at the Ramada Inn about 5 mins from Hollywood studios, it's usually a pretty fun time there in the evenings. I'll be rocking my Trooper1 pauldron proudly as I do every year lol. If you have never been, you'll want to stake out your spot at least 45 mins or so before the parade, it can get pretty darn crowded. You won't miss the Sandy's though, I believe we are in the same order as last year (TK, TB, TD). so we'll be right behind the biker guys. We usually march the best of any group in the parade and it's a blast for sure. Looking forward to it, i'll be heading up with some other Everglades Squad brothers on Thursday afternoon. See you guys there, somewhere. Do you guys know about the 501st dinner? It's on the first Saturday and last Saturday of SWW, at Houlihans. It's always a fun time and if you guys are visiting, you should make the trip out. If you are interested and want more details, let me know and i'll give you all the info you need. It's family friendly so no worries there.

To mount the pouch to the waist belt, here is what I did. I removed the angled leather straps by cutting all the thread. I then straightened them out vertically, used a piece of leather under each end, about a 1" square or so, to raise them off the pouch, then put in a rivet at either end, of both straps. This makes just enough room to slide them on the belt and hold them snugly and was a pretty easy way to do it. Been that way for over two years now and still going strong. I can post a pic if the description is unclear.

Welcome back, everything is right where you left it and there's even cold beer in the fridge lol.

I always use white velcro anytime I am using it on any white armor, just to help hide it, especially on the calves. I use the industrial strength on the backs of my calves, it holds very well and is hardly noticible under the cover strip.