Greetings All,
I have gone as far as I can without consulting the braintrust ;-).
A little background, I joined and started reading the forums in January 2018. Following a back injury 20 years ago (activity waned but hunger didn't) I successfully enlarged myself to over 350 pounds. I decided that I needed a significant goal to encourage me to fix this problem and redefine a lifestyle. After working with my doctor on a plan and setting my goal to add a ANH STUNT TK to my costume collection I have worked over a year to drop 112 pounds so far on the way to my final target.
Now that I am within a range that armor can be made to work I started to customize for myself an AP kit that Mark prepared for me. (very happy with Mark at AP, he has been responsive and helpful)
So, I have shimmed my thighs and kidney/abdomen assembly and have gotten to where I can actually start to wear the armor for fine tuning. This is where you folks come in.
Q1: Thighs will sit about 1/2 inch higher once strapped to belt under torso but still leave a fair amount of black. I don't see any way to enlarge them further since they are resting right up to the bottom of my well rounded A$$ and so need some suggestions here. Should I trim the top of the back of the thighs to allow the front to move a little bit north?
Q2: If I fasten the shoulder straps at even their most extreme length I end up with a gap at bottom of chest plate and back plate. Abdomen is fitting well and cod plate is as high as it is able to go. I have a long torso and shorter tree trunk thighs so this doesn't help the case.
I am sure you will all see other things I haven't mentioned or may not realize yet so fire away troopers.
Thanks!