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So I'd like a sanity check here. I would appreciate any comments on all of the sections/pictures. I'd like to know if you agree with what I am seeing or if I am way off base. I laid my armor out and I feel that the back does not align well with the chest piece which then leads to the fit issues. Here is the armor laying flat on the ground. In my opinion the back shoulder pieces are significantly lower than chest ones. Here is the armor with the sides aligned the best I could by hand. Again, the back shoulders do not seem to align well with the chest. Here is me in the torso armor and the thighs. The thighs are pulled up as high as they can go. I think the top of the back sits too low and should be closer to my neck/collar, but there is also too much of a gap between the butt and thighs. Or am I crazy on the gap between the thighs/buttplate and it is fine here? Here is the front view. I think the chest sits too high as it presses a bit into my throat and there is obviously a lack of coverage at the bottom. Similar to the back, I believe the gap between the cod and thighs is a bit much. Here is the side view. The back sits too low and the front is sitting too high, however the sides are very misaligned and moving the back up and front down would exacerbate this issue even more. Am I crazy? Am I missing something?

Thank you for all of the information! Yes, I bought the complete kit from them under the assumption I would be able to wear it out of the box. The legs, arms, and helmet all fit fine (one shin is a little tight at the knee), its just the torso where I have the issue, hence all of the questions/issues. As for why I need to replace the buttons. One of the first comments that RS gave me for working fit issues was to replace the shoulder straps which which means I would have to replace 1 button on the right shoulder strap. Another major issue I have is the strap that goes between my legs is way too short which means I have to replace that strap and button as well. This is because the back armor set does not completely cover my back from collar to butt so it sits high. Looking through your thread, I had some questions on your strapping. 1. On the armor itself where you have the "male" end of the buttons, it looks like you used a short piece of nylon and attached 2 button pieces to the nylon and then glued them directly to the armor, correct? What did you use for the glue? Super glue, CYA, E6000? 2. I saw one question you had was about opening the rivets. Were you able to open them or did you end up buying new ones? Do you have a link for a source for them?

Thank you for the information, and I appreciate you reaching out and commenting. I know in some of the pictures I sent that the armor is misaligned, those are what I have been sending to RS to help me with the strapping based on their feedback (which has stopped after 2 whole emails). I do plan on replacing the internal straps and have been poking around looking at what others have done before I cut what they provided. A couple of questions for you... 1. Is that elastic you used for the strapping, or nylon webbing that is more rigid? 2. Did you have to replace any of the buttons/snaps that RS provided (collar, cod/butt strap, right side)? If so, can you tell me where you got them? I know I will have to replace at least 1 and I want it to be compatible with what they have used. 3. RS internal strapping used little wire things that are screwed into the edges of the armor, did you take those out, or leave them in and just ignore them and put your straps over them? Thank you!

I appreciate the links, thank you. However, all of these look to be using the basic RS Prop Masters internal strapping and it fits them quite well. In the pictures where the armor is splayed open and you can see the internals, thats exactly what mine looks like. I believe my problem is that I am tall and have a longer torso than most. So being almost 6' tall and then having a torso that is 3+" larger than typical for my size is throwing everything off.

The reason the chest/shoulder strapping is really long is that was RS's suggestion to try and get the armor to be lowered a bit. In my initial pictures to them, the back/chest where snug around my collar like they should be and that is where the problems started. With the back/chest sitting correctly, it sits incorrectly around my crotch/butt and is roughly 3" too short. They also suggested tightening the belt which helped with the side alignment, but did nothing for the fit problems down below.

I've been trying to keep the L3 Centurion requirements in mind when getting this to fit which is why I am struggling. If I pull the back up so it sits correctly, and move the front so it sits comfortably across my chest/crotch, the sides (ab/kidney) are grossly misaligned on the order of 3-4" off with the back much higher than the front. If I pull the front up, I can get them somewhat aligned (less than 0.5"), but then the codpiece hits me mid-crotch and is about 3" to high. Doing this also means the butt plate sits too high and the part that should go between my thighs hits me mid butt. If I add strapping to lower the ab plate down, that will cause a misalignment on the sides again. Ideally I would add strapping between the kidney/butt to get that into a better position, but that does not solve the side misalignment.

I'm around 5'10" to 5'11" I don't mind doing additional strapping, but all of the pictures I see have the back and kidney butt up next to each other or a slight overlap. I don't want it to look wonky/wrong by spacing them out. Is that OK/allowed?

OK, so its been a couple of months and I have been dealing with some fit issues. I really do not like how this sits on me. I was able to get it to fit well enough for approval, but its still not great. 1. The codpiece ends up sitting about 3 inches too high and hits me square in the crotch. In order to connect the butt/cod strap, it has to be pulled extremely tight which then makes the armor shift constantly while wearing. 2. The back sits too high in my opinion. If I put the back plate up where it sits properly at my shoulders, then the bottom of the butt plate hits the middle of my butt. Again, it can be pulled down with the strap, but then the armor just sits funny. I contacted RS prop masters and they are trying to help me remotely but so far we've only traded a couple of emails. So some questions for the experts... 1. One of the recommendations is to lengthen the strapping between the plates. I can do that, but I am concerned that it will not look right. By my estimation, I need to get almost 3" more "height" on the front and back for it to sit comfortably. I may be able to get near that on the front as there is overlap on the chest/ab, but the back is butt joined and any lengthened straps will create gaps in the armor. Will that look bad/wrong? 2. In the pictures below, is the butt plate sitting too low? I put it there as that is where it properly covers my bottom and allows the bottom tip to go between my thighs comfortably to connect the strap. 3. Are there any suggestions on what to do or am I being overly picky? Here are the latest photos I sent to RS to help with fit issues. Their first suggestion was to lengthen the shoulder straps which did allow the front to come down a good bit. The problem then was that the sides were severely misaligned so I had to pull the back down which made it fit poorly at the shoulders. As you can see from the side picture, even pulling the back down, it is still too high for the front, but fit well around my bottom. The front was positioned so that the cod was comfortable. Again as you can see from the side picture, it still bumps out a little at the bottom.

First note...The comment about not sure what I was getting was from a couple of weeks ago, but apparently I never hit post... My box actually got here a week and a half ago but I have been travelling for work so I couldn't enjoy it much. Easy approval according to my GML. Some photos at the end... I have a bunch of parts laying around so now I just need to make it fit and look a little better. 1. The helmet sits way to low on my head, I can pretty much swivel my head inside the bucket without it moving. Going to add a PASGT harness like on my Fett helmet to the inside for comfort and control. 2. Also need to cleanup the insides of the bucket. The 4 screws that hold it together were not trimmed down so they are like 1-1/2" long which is bonkers. Gonna trim them and put some acorn nuts on them so they don't catch on my balaclava. I also don't really like the chin strap. I may remove it or just tuck it away, not sure yet. 3. Add fans to the bucket. I got some Henry's fans in pretty quickly so I just have to mount them. 4. I may look into replacing the lens material as its super flimsy and occasionally touches my nose and deforms and it drives me nuts. I'd like to find something a bit more rigid that I can trim up and put in, but for now it works. 5. Need to work on a better suit up order. Right now it takes more help to get this on than my Death Trooper which is 10x more complicated. I think this will just be a practice thing. 6. Need to look at others suited up to see what "right" looks like. I don't like my approval photos at all as I can tell my ab armor is twisted funny and I'm picky. My handlers (wife and kids) do their best, but don't always know what to look for. 7. New gloves...Oh do I need new gloves. These rubber things are awful. Thankfully Dave's Darkside Depot is in FL and he was able to take my order pretty quickly. Not sure when they will arrive. 8. The tops of my shins press into my knees and its somewhat irritating so I may add some foam or something to make it hurt less. 9. As with my DT, the thighs hang lower than I'd like so I'm going to build a harness that goes over my shoulders. Belts don't work great as I have a bit of a belly and the belt just slides down my stomach, so I need the support higher up. Biggest problem is making sure its not visible. That shouldn't be a problem on my back, just at the chest level. 10. I picked up an iComm box and amp, so I just need to work the mounting in the chest armor. I may also put in a sound board for preprogrammed stuff, but we'll see. Questions for the knowledgeable folks out there. 1. For your undersuit, do you just wear something like an under armor skin tight suit and the armor over that, or are there multiple layers? RS Prop Masters sent along an under suit for free but its like a pair of sweat pants and shirt and was hot as heck. I'd prefer to just wear my under armor compression clothing, but not sure if that is too revealing under the armor or if another layer is required. 2. Anyone have a source on more rigid eye lens materials? 3. Any tips/tricks for suit up to make it more of a 1 man operation?

Not a whole lot of prep at this point as I am just waiting for the kit. I've been planning on mods to the kit, but haven't made it too far as I am not 100% sure on what I will get.

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