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This is a really easy fix, Andreas. My pouches had the white stitching when I bought them, so I just used a black fine-tip Sharpie permanent marker and went over the white threads. It took 2 or 3 passes with the marker to be them as black as I wanted, but it came out great, One word of advice- don't use the marker on the threads in the back (rear) of the pouches. The "permanent" ink can rub off on your armor, and there's pretty much no getting it off.

I also printed up the holster base from MrPoopie / @TheRascalKing's holster files and it was a perfect fit. Much nicer than sanding a curve into the block I printed initially.

I trimmed the thighs down a lot, and used the scraps to reinforce the posterior piece. It's much stiffer now, in a good way: Per Tony's feedback, I also cut the thickness of the ab boxes down quite a lot. Annoyingly, the huge globs of milliput I used got in the way of the new shorter boxes, so I had to dremel them down as best I could. This also means I'll probably just end up gluing the boxes on that I had to cut the nylon bolts off of. But I do think they look much better now.

Happy to finally be apart of the legendary FISD!!!

Nice fit

Reinforced the back straps today, I'll give them a test tomorrow. Also started working on getting the arms all ready, and that starts with fixing the left bicep which I'll start working on tomorrow.

Golden Gate Garrison's GML is the one who will ultimately approve, but if you want feedback from the detachment you can post in the pre-approval section to get feedback from folks here.

You may have addressed this already, James, but I noticed in an earlier photo that you had rivets/snaps on the right side of the the kidney and ab plate (1st pic). In the second one it looks as if you have replaced the snaps with rivets (red arrows) and removed the rivets on the kidney (red circles). Unfortunately there should be no rivets (or holes) on the right side of either piece. The ab plate should have one snap (the "Han" snap") on the top as seen by the green circle in the first photo and green arrow in the third one. I'm doubtful that your GML will allow the holes or rivets for Basic approval, but fixing them is not impossible by any means! The way to do this is to make up a small batch of ABS paste, just as Glen mentioned for your vocoder. You can put some blue tape on the front (outside) of the holes, fill them just enough to cover and then sand down any excess inside. Should take about 10-15 minutes! Screen used armor