BrewDiver

i did this the other day, holy cow what a difference, all i need to do now is sew the liner back in.

that is an amazing photo.

i'm a big guy too 6'1 and 260 with a gut (i'm working on it) i use SC armor and bucket the problem i had with the chest and back armor was it felt like it was riding too high since the shoulders pretty much have to meet, so i went and got some ABS plastic like a plastic no parking sign or something to that effect, i measured the width of the front and back parts where the shoulder meets cut a length the same width and glued it on the bottom kind of like this (front --> - _ -<-- back) but plastic, that dropped the chest almost 4 inches so now it fits right, then i covered the gap with bondo and sanded to finish, once i was done i got some small hinges at home depot then cut the middle and added the hinge so now my armor will swing when putting it on, if you want i can take pictures to show you just pm me so i know.

looks pretty good, i would move the pouches inward a few inches, to me they just look too wide (spread apart), the belt should be in line with the bottom of the cummerbund, i'm not sure if it's just me but it looks like the thigh straps are too low, but if you passed clearance than kudos to you.

yep... outside

i did this with mine except i didn't recess the button area, holds tight and looks good, though i might give this a shot.

are there straps on the shoulder bells?, you might have an issue like i did with them "Ballooning" out, i would leave the sleeves alone for now then when you get it back try and take in some of the slack to prevent that.

i took a dremel with a drill bit, penciled my lines then drilled a series of holes, then used an exacto blade to trim it out.

looking good brotha

i would lightly round out the corners on the chest and back armor where the elastic connects at the bottom, and are you wearing a flak vest?, i'm not sure if it's me but i can't see it... other than that looks pretty good.

Snag some 80 and 300 grit from lowes or home depot

looks fantastic

Looking at the face plate it looks like the upper right needs to a little bit higher and slightly sharper with a rounded edge

The weathering inside of the holster is from the gun itself, the story of the carbon mark is thisnone time while training a newbie I was checking out the engine and he started the engine and I got a blast of exhaust lol, I wont be at mega on friday but will be there saturday

the boots don't look as brown in person, and the chest armor doesn't look as bad either.