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Ryss

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  1. Thanks! I like the DLT-19 for trooping especially because it's so lightweight. Thanks for the tips... I live in a small apartment with no access to powertools, so some of those mods might be a bit beyond me. But the goal is to get deployed, so I'll see what I can do. Nope, got them thirdhand from garrison buddies. Can't help you there, sorry...
  2. So, I'm getting ready to request deployment, and the rest of my gear is all set. I have on hand a DLT-19 and a T-21 that I believe are spruced-up Cushmans -- they're lightweight, can take a beating, and are perfect for trooping. I'm not keen on buying a different gun, so I'd like to make these work, if I can. Are these guns missing details? Is it going to be impossible to make them accurate enough for Police Officer? Are they good to go?
  3. I'm a big fan of snaps instead velcro and have a similar setup. I ended up replacing the belt portion with a non-elastic webbing belt, which helped with the sagging. The Vs are wide elastic. I have to cinch the belt pretty tight to get it to stay in place.
  4. Actually, it's not scaled down at all. I guess I look bigger in armor? For comparison, here's a photo from Monday's troop at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. I'm the short TD in the center, surrounded by more average-sized troopers:
  5. Awesome! Dirty is where the fun's at! And here's the final build, approved in person by our GML: Ignore the falling-down knee ammo belt. I'm fixing that! There are a couple of other things I want to do--get better-fitting gloves, get smaller ab-to-kidney left side split rivets, get the proper Enfield slings for my T-21, and of course I still have Quartermaster's pack coming my way soon. But otherwise I couldn't be more happy with how it turned out. First troop as a sandtrooper was a complete success, no equipment malfunctions!
  6. Mostly materials on hand...I had more wide elastic left over. But I think it'll also feel more secure and slide around less. I'm using this style of hook and eye closure: I sewed the hook portion to a piece of webbing, which I glued onto the inside of the bicep, facing outward: I sewed the eye portion to the inside of my shoulder bell elastic: In theory, this will keep the bicep from sliding around or riding up. We'll see how it works in practice!
  7. Haven't done the pauldron yet, but I plan to do it the same way, just lighter. I did the boots first so I could get a feel for painting on leather. I'll let you know how it goes!
  8. 12mm in diameter, looks like. I think that actually may be too big. At least they should be easy to replace, eventually... Been working like crazy this weekend to get everything finished by Monday, thus have fallen behind on updates. I did a ton of stuff like finishing the thigh tops, sewing the thigh garter belt, figuring out placement of the sound system, adding helmet padding, changing the shoulder bell straps and adding a hook for the bicep straps... Glue for the forearms is drying. Meanwhile, today is for weathering! Thigh garter belt. Dirtying up the boots. I spray-painted the canvas shoulder pouch black to try to capture that weird greenish-black accurate look. As a bonus, the spray paint makes it feel stiff and old. Here's what I've got weathered so far! First a lunch break, then I'll do the arms, helmet, pauldron, and maybe the T-21.
  9. You know, I was thinking that too, but I got them from trooperbay so assumed they'd be the right size. Maybe they just look bigger since I'm made my armor so much smaller?
  10. I don't have much left. I need to finish trimming the thigh tops and make their strapping, rivet the knee ammo belt, finish gluing the forearms and make their strapping, attach cod-to-butt strapping, attach the belt, finish pouch straps, finish weathering everything, add miscellaneous padding, and attach my sound system. If I have extra time I might redo the back of the right thigh and the strapping for the shoulder bells. Here's how the weathering is looking so far... I'm following Pandatrooper's weathering tutorial and it's so much fun. This is the first layer of brown. Next I'll do the black/grey layer, and maybe touch up with some yellows and reds: Shins. Ab. Cod. Kidney and butt. Accurate left side closure!
  11. Belt is riveted! I kind of failed at using a washer, but everything seems to be riveted together just fine regardless: Gluing the covers on the front: And the torso is pretty much done:
  12. First, I found bobojuice's recent thread on FISD on modifying armor for women a great starting point. Here's a rundown of how I modified each part: Shoulder bells: Mostly unchanged, just closely trimmed. Biceps: Trimmed a little shorter on the bottom edges. Forearms: Not finished yet, but these are tricky--I cut a whole rectangle-indent off the elbow end to make them shorter, cut the inner elbow scoop deeper, and will probably end up trimming off the entire raised lip and heat-forming them narrower. Chest: Cut almost two inches off the bottom Luke-style, and heat-formed the underarms/chest sides inward since I'm slimmer. Ab: Heat-formed the sides bending inward a lot to conform to my shape. The bend starts at the vertical ridges and is quite dramatic compared to the old bend. Cod: Cut off and remounted overlapping inside the ab. I actually didn't heat-bend this piece or trim off the top edge since the tension and overlap helps keep it stable (instead of flapping around). The lower edges weren't trimmed much extra. Back: Heat-formed the underarms/sides to bend inward just a little bit. Kidney: Heat-formed the sides bending inward a lot, and trimmed maybe a half inch off each side so it doesn't overlap with the ab. Butt: Heat-formed the sides inward a bit, trimmed a tiny bit off the top, and trimmed a lot off the sides. Thighs: Trimmed lots off the back and top of the right thigh to make it narrower and shorter. The left thigh was weird--didn't trim any off the back, but had to trim much more off the top. Shins: Mostly unchanged, just trimmed off an inch or around the ankle to make them shorter.
  13. When I started working on my armor kit, I bookmarked this thread for its list of supplies: http://forum.mepd.net/index.php?showtopic=8193 If you get the Dritz snap pliers, they really work best with Dritz heavy duty snaps. They don't set the Tandy ones all the way.
  14. Lots of progress this weekend... Heat gun! This thing is amazing. Now my armor actually fits. It's fantastic. Got more snap tabs glued on, and made more strapping. You can kind of see how much I reshaped the sides of all the torso pieces. Gluing snap tabs... Surprisingly, lining up the cod and butt pieces wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, although I will be cutting the butt more. Gluing the front of the left thigh. This is a weird piece. I only cut the top to make it shorter, and trimmed along the original seam lines on the sides, but somehow it's too narrow for me! I'll have to play with it more. The right thigh fits just fine. Borrowing Dan's rivet gun... ...And here's the knee ammo belt, all ready to be riveted. Got my latex handguards and accurate chemical gloves! I found these in the dollar store and thought they might be handy as backup gloves, especially since they only cost me a dollar. Cheesegrater handguards! I have so many handguard options now. Went to the fabric store down the block from me, and got canvas for making the belt. That's one of today's goals. Also cleaned out their stock of acrylic paints in shades of brown. It's a pretty tiny fabric store. I can't wait to start weathering. Shins = done! Got the velcro for them today. Also added some foam padding near the knee, and now they fit beautifully.
  15. The canvas one? Wish I'd known - I actually got myself a set of them to modify a week or two ago:
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