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  5. while trick-or-treating

    in Field Training Exercises

    Posted

    As some of you know, I had my first appearance among friends last saturday (see other Halloween pics thread).

     

    As for public appearance at work yesterday and last night to go door to door with my condo neighbour, I was simply overwhelmed.

     

    I can definitely say I've had more fun then anybody out there, children included :)

     

    I too had a lot of knock on armor, congrats tap on shoulders, amazing comments.

     

    I've had the "Hey, it's Darth Vader", "Wow, nice robots", some parents came over to ask a pic and told me in the ear, "I hope you don't mind, he thinks you're a Power Ranger" .. Haha .. "Not at all" :)

     

    I've had around 30 pictures taken of me with random people and kids. A lot of parents telling me my armor totally rocked.

     

    I've had this kid running around, we were crossing roads a lot in the neighbourhood, and he kept telling me Vader wanted me to report immediately!!! Pretty funny boy.

     

    At work, I went around walking on all 4 floors .. and since I'm working in a video game company, people are all around 30 years old. One team went to me congratulating me .. until I actually backed up, and waved saying "Move along, move along" .. At this point, they went in complete frenzy and all applauded me .. it was an amazing feeling.

     

    All and all, most awesome Halloween EVER, even from what I recall being a child .. even now, I think about it and I'm smiling, what a great experience.

     

    Almost forgot, I've had a lot of "Awesome costume, but your voice thing completely was did it for me" from a lot of people. RomFX did it for me :)

  7. Using snaps for belt position

    in Hard Armor (General Discussion)

    Posted

    You already posted a pic of my armour in the Elite Status section, question 3, second pic down :)

     

    If you have some spare ABS or HIPS, you can cut a small square to stick behind the hole in your ab plate. Heat the square up until it is flexible and press it into the hole from the inside. This should make the hole fill up with ABS and then glue the square in place. If it doesn't work the first time, try heating the plastic more until it can be pressed into the hole.

     

    When I put the holes in my belt for the snaps, make sure that the belt is not tight against your ab plate. If it is tight then it will want to pop off so give a bit of slack.

     

    -Paul :)

     

    Paul, I thought this was a screen used armor from ANH!!! Damn .. ok .. well, that's the look I wanna have for my armor!

    I'll try that after Halloween! Thanks for the tip!

  15. Topic subscriptions

    in Forum Help & Support

    Posted

    I think I can help you on this one.

     

    To Subscribe: Hit Options in the upper right corner when you're reading a thread, then Subscribe to this forum. Or you can always hit the "Enable email notification of replies?" checkbox when you add a message and that will also subscribe you!

     

    Then, in your My Controls page, on your left side bar, you'll have Subscriptions - View Topics / View Forums that will show you all your subscribed Threads classified by Topic.

     

    Is that helping you in any way?

  17. Closing side gap on AP armor

    in Hard Armor (General Discussion)

    Posted

    Ok, so here's more info and questions :)

     

    I always thought my abs piece was pretty twisted .. I always assumed it was normal and never really bothered with it. I decided to make sure this was normal by taking a few pics of the abs piece and they fitting of the kidney piece with the abs piece. As you can see on the pics below, if I line up my left side to the kidney, the right side will have over 1" of lateral gap, I'm not taking about the side gap here .. see picture anyway, I'm sure it's clear enough.

     

    So that gap was what originally made me wonder how I could close the side gap ..

     

    Now, may this be normal or not, I assume I could always take away some kidney upper lip width so that the piece would be easier to squeeze closer? How thick is that lip on your AP armor? I guess it does make sense to take some ABS off that lip to make it more flexible?

     

    I'd like your input and pics if you have of those 2 pieces closed from top view ..

     

    Details to look at in this picture:

    Middle left : Upper lip shape being more angled on the left side

    Bottom left: Flat part where the buttons are is more bubbled on the left side

    Upper right: See gap on right side when left side is aligned

    Lower right: Kidney lip width reference shot .. is it too large so that it removed flexibility

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  19. Using snaps for belt position

    in Hard Armor (General Discussion)

    Posted

    Thanks guys,

     

    Paul, if only I had asked and read that answer before drilling my holes ... now I feel sad I didn't ask the question BEFORE doing the drilling .. I hate the idea of having unused holes in my armor .. god I feel stupid for having done that!

     

    For now, I'll keep the bolts there while I build myself a canvas belt that will be less inclined to pop out.

     

    May this thread serves other with their kit :) Paul, you should add a picture of your abs piece with the snap in to help with the location and overall look for future reference.

     

    Joey, off to reshaping it anyway ;)

  22. Using snaps for belt position

    in Hard Armor (General Discussion)

    Posted

    I'm currently tweaking my armor to give it a better fit.

     

    My belt had always been a problem. The AP kit comes with 2 pieces of white elastic to rivets on each side of the belt. Now, if you do this and use both pieces keeping the length they come, your belt will most likely be loose, or at least not really tight.

     

    So, I had the choice, shorten the belt's elastics, or fix the belt to the abs with snaps. After noticing this thing on a lot of pictures and screen grabs, I decided to give the snaps method a GO!

     

    So I used my belts end holes to mark where to put the male snaps in the armor. Drilled through, put the snaps in, put 2 female snaps through the belt's holes.

     

    Looked pretty neat ..

     

    Tried it on .. snapped right out!

    Resnapped it in .. snapped right out!

     

    The belt is way too rigid for these snaps to hold! Now, I'm using the same heavy duty snaps I've used for the rest of the armor. So the snaps is not the issue here.

     

    NOW, I'm sorry I drilled through the abs piece .. and realized that perhaps this was working only when the female snaps were NOT attached to the ABS belt, but on the canvas belt which is way more flexible than the ABS.

     

    For now, I used 2 bolts going through the ABS belt, then through the elastic, then the female snap, then the male snaps and through the abs piece closed inside the armor... I sure don't wanna keep the bolting solution!

     

    Does that all make sense .. input needed on this one.

  24. Request for the Search Box

    in Forum Help & Support

    Posted

    Title says it all ..

    It's already been said in some other threads which I couldn't find back. So I made an official request for it ...

     

    Can we have the possibility to make searches for less then 4 letters?

     

    Here's why:

    AP

    TE

    TE2

    TM

    FX

    ABS material

    COD piece

    knee PAD

    GUN

    E11 blaster

    LID

    [...]

     

    You see the obvious, it seems that this forum is the perfect place to search less than 4 characters ... it's so often suggested to newbs to use the Search box, let's make it even more useful.

     

    Thanks,

    Al

  25. Can't edit album anymore

    in Forum Help & Support

    Posted

    Chris, it worked for a week, I could delete some images (by viewing my album, clicking the little pink checkbox and choosing the delete image selected combo box in the bottom - is there another way?)

     

    But now, it won't show me those options anymore .. so unless I dreamed of it, or I was using another way to "view in edit mode", I can't seem to have the checkbox in the upper/left corner of each image and neither the combo box in the lower task bar .. ?

     

    Am I the only one with such problems? Is this a per-user setup?

     

    HUGE thanks for your time

    Al

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