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Well done and welcome to the ranks, was a long wait but worth it for first Centurion for 2013, congrats

Well done trooper, was worth the wait and first EIB for 2013. A little extra work for Centurion will be worth while in the end

Thanks for the info, at least in the description it says it is a fan made prop, so hopefully that should warn people away

No probs I have: Ab 47cm The edge on the kidney that butts against the butt plate is about 58 but my kidney goes past the butt plate by 2 cm on each side I did find that the top of my kidney plate is 55cm, I found it fitted better this way. I think you must be heavier boned than me lol, by the weight and height I should have the same need of padding as you. I could do with a little padding, I didn't want to trim too much off my armor at first, but I did notice my sides popping out a lot so I made some angle shims behind the sides top and bottom that helped to keep the sides in and not wanting to flair out. I think like most armor makers you just have to make it fit your frame. Think I would try a bit of padding first before removing too much of the sides

Looking good my ATA lid was the same on the right side, did a bit of repositioning and still wasnt happy but I did find that the bottom of the ear covers most of the bottom section and was you have the S trim on aswell then you can't see any gap

Looking good

D ring photo should be added too

Looking much nicer, good job, should just clean up the rank stripe, looks a little of on the front. The wait for things coming in the post is annoying, hopefully you get your abs soon

Your fix looks great, most leave the little gap in the ends of their joins. Keep up the good work I am sure 2013 only inprove

Thanks guys it's nice to give something back to this awesome forum, glad it was of help

My kidney plate is about 20mm longer than my butt plate, which should mean I would have an even greater amount of padding needed, which I didn't. The ATA kidney plate will go on either way too and mine was not marked, I just put it the way the taper lined up with the abb piece, fitted the contours of the butt plate too.

After a conversation about AP sniper plates this morning it seems like a common thing, you may be ok, have a look at the thread here http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/22593-tk-8453-requesting-anh-stunt-centurion-status/page__st__20#entry282897

I used just a common grey spray paint, if you are lucky you can sometimes find the pipe in grey. Clips have a look at Vern's clips http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/22546-ap-te-style-thermal-det-aluminum-clipsw-hardware/

Did you trim the sides a bit, they do have a faint ridge showing where to trim

Very nice lines indeed well done

With the use of the heat gun the snap plate is completely flush, no stud or tape protruding, also you can bend the snap plate for use on curved armor. In the end what ever works best for you.

Thanks will keep that in mind for future reference

I had to do this with my ATA shin, just looked lop sided and I wasn't happy with it. But it's a personal thing not required for approval by the looks of it.

Or use a heat gun http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/20893-how-to-recess-press-studs/ I didn't have any problems with the glue on the back of the snaps, just applied the glue around the snap so there was enough on the snap plate.

Tan looks so much better

Looking much better

Can see a lot of the shin, looks as if the sniper plate could have come up a bit on this side

Just what ever works for you, do you want comfort or screen accuracy. I use snaps and elastic, has some give and easy to change if you ever stretch the elastic.

Very nice, looks like there may be a new How To post coming up soon

No, I don't have a fireplace LOL