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I am working on a new neckseal, with velcro to the bib so it stays in position better when worn on top. Didn't think of trapping the tramp to the chest yet. Might experiment with that a bit indeed. And comfy, well. My first troop was a 10km hike in it, so yeah.. it is well worn in by now

Had my first few troops in armour the last few weeks, feels very good and comfy. I do have a few kinks I want to work out. First and foremost: the elastic straps between chest and back pull out somewhat when wearing the armour and my shoulderbells are attached. Any suggestions to resolve that? Secondly: I use a TrAMP, so basically an aker underneath my armor. I prefer wearing my neckseal inside my undersuit, however then you (I guess) see the strap of the tramp in my neck. Any ideas there? Or let me rephrase, how do you peeps do that? And lastly, the tramp pushes my chestplate out quite a bit, makes it a bit less comfy. Any interesting suggestions how to fix that? I was pondering to somehow work it into the backplate?

Whoop whoop!! Received my approval last Saturday !! Adding TK to.the TI and TN designations... now mentally prepping for my first troop in TK.

I do believe it is looking pretty cool Background and scenery is not hte best. But at least here I had some OK light. Crap to make proper photo's when the weather it overcast. And I had a small mishap while getting suited up. My son handed me my helmet:

For my left thigh I have a weird little gap that simply doesn't want to be closed anymore. For now leaving it like this and going to discuss with one of our ABS guru's here in NL whether he has ideas to shape a piece the right way

so far what I have seen is the ABS hand covers on flight gloves, which is going to be my go to thing. The rubber globes came with the kit since it basically is completely ready for centurion. I am however going for basic approval for now. then I will look into what might need to be done for centurion

So... I did this this evening: Still not 100% happy with the butt plate, but it is a lot better: Tomorrow I will be finishing sanding the buttons in the right shape and stick those on there, Also really want to tighten the padding in the bucket a bit more, feels too movie for comfort yet. But ... Almost!!! I do feel massive in this costume btw Oh yeah, also got to finish the ABS hand plates so I can wear the custome with my normal nomex gloves instead of these sweat things But that is not needed for approval.

I stopped yesterday evening since I wasn't 100% sure how far back they should be. Moving them inwards more is the easy part, getting them out would be the difficult part

Mesh installed in the hovi tips Cleaned up the blue stripes and put the ears back on:

I did do that on a small split I had on the left knee. The back gaps however were really hardly fixable. The little bit that is still there now is potentially fixable. Otherwise I might still go for what @ukswrath proposed. I do like the look like this more than with the back fully trimmed away though.

stripes and lines on the bucket: Still some cleaning up to do in there, but over all quite happy with these. The blue lines really did drip quite a bit unfortunately, but nothing a tootpick cannot fix The lines on the dome are also nice: I had these gaps on the back of my thighs, which I didn't like at all. So was looking around and made a pre-emptive modification to my legs, took a half moon out so I can walk easier and the gap is a lot less visible. Still need to clean them up a bit more but the raw image now is something like this: Didn't get around to a trial fit today, instead I painted all the split rivets that need painting. Hopefully tomorrow and otherwise definitely tuesday a trial fit again. Need to order some tactical helmet padding for my bucket, since that foam that comes with it does not make the helmet comfortable at all.

No, didn't do photos, but the bottom part was still wide while the top part was looking good. So mainly using a bit of hot water to close the bottom in a bit. I am using the watermethod as little as possible. Not really fond of bending the ABS. I have bad experiences with that on my ANH Tie bucket

tried the butt plate with snaps more in the corner, but that doesn't achieve the goal, Well in all fairness it sort off achieves it but not in the right way. the corners are now pulled in, but the bottom part still stands out, resulting in really oddly shaped hips. So, going to try the watermethod after all. Fixed the elastic in the shoulder bells to go across the biceps, Finally closed the split rivets on the thigh ammo pouch belt. Now fixing the drop boxes to the canvas belt.

I have indeed used the boiling method for small parts, also for my 2 tie costumes. No idea how to apply it to the butt plate indeed. So trying the snaps more to the edge first. it feels flexible enough indeed.

I still need to do the strap within the shoulder bell, around the bicep. the strapping between bicep and forearm is in place and I am actually planning to shorten the one on the left a little bit to pull my forearm up a tiny bit more. The idea of the strapping more to the tips of the butt plate sound like a very very much more attractive idea than changing the full shape indeed If I don't have to screw around with boiling water I'd rather not. going to investigate that right now! as for the height of the biceps, the right one is a bit more tight around my arm than the left, so might also be that when dressing I shoved one higher than the other.