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I got loads of grabs but nothing from underneath. I had a quick look at it again and just realised the other scout has the same bag on the back of his bike too (in the underneath of the bag almost faces the camera). Annoyingly its hard to frame forward on Disney.

My current thought is to rest the pouches on the belt, exposing more of the tab, and move them across 1/2 an inch - clearly exposing the bund ribs.

Yes they're the standard size. I've just measured and confirmed the width of the tab is 5 inches, 6 inches in height and 2 inches (measuring the pouch depth). The pouches are close to the top of the bund (roughly 1/4 inch) and there is a little gap at the bottom (roughly 1 inch), so I could drop them a little bit vertically. I also consulted my armour supplier and he thought an inch was an over estimation and suggested I align it to the rib (at least for me).

I'm having difficulty getting my head around the idea sizing and positioning (not a dig, more striving to understand the costume, which for me is the whole point of the lancer exercise). In my mind the pouches should hug the chest armour, and touch the top of the belt, extending little past the edge of the armour - though I've seen images which contradict this. If this is wrong my guess is the pouches should be an inch from the outer bund ribs, and dropped down a little, to show a little more of the tab. If this is the case, my pouches may need to be a little smaller so they don't overlap the belt, and don't extend to far past the edge of the armour. I appreciate your assistance and advice on this, it's all learning.

Will do, ta

I’ve been working on the pouch position for lancer, posting a progress pic on Facebook. My friend (previously on the lancer board of judges) Commented they were too close. They hug the edges of the last rib of the bund. I originally positioned them an inch from the last rib, and possibly incorrectly felt they were too far apart. I thought they shouldn’t extend too far past the edge of the chest armour. At the moment mine are in line with the edges of the chest armour. I’ll post fully kitted up pics when I can.

This was when I had them attached with poppers This was with velcro and tighter elastic, I had to mess around with them a bit for the photo to get them to look this good. The bottom edge of the biceps still pulled out a bit. It's possible I'm being overly critical, I hoped it maybe a common problem and therefore have a simple solution. Thanks

With my first proper troop as a Biker Scout I found the black of my flight suit bled into my bund, so I've had to buy new soft parts and adding poppers and velcro for armour. I'm planning to go with Lancer one of the comments I saw was the rotation and position of the biceps. I've looked at the film and in my less enlightened eyes they appear to be all over the place, based on how people are standing / dressed. I was wondering if there was a definition image / film or fan that I could use to work to. Whilst on the subject of biceps. When I used poppers securing the biceps at the top the biceps flared out from the flight suit at the bottom. I've switched to strip of wide velcro the length of the bicep but they still pull out a bit. It could be my elastic is too tight, pulling it in at the top too much. I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this. Thanks

I'm planning on trying to get lancer status with my scout and I was wondering if anyone else had studied the returns on the armour? The armour I have has natural returns which I could trim off. I was studying the film, the chest, back and knee armour appear to have natural returns. I believe the forearm armour has a slight return, where as the bicep, shoulder armour and holster do not. Does this sound right / obvious / worth the effort? Ta

We've seen a number of pictures of Biker Scouts as snipers. I recently came across an image of a Biker Scout sniper team. One of the scouts acting as a sniper and the other as a spotter. The spotter has a pair of Electobinoculars, which appear to be similar to the ones used by Rebel Troopers on Hoth. I was wondering if it would be possible to get these added to the CRL, so they could compliment snipers.

And that's his chin there isn't it? Not a chin cup.

Okay I have only trooped with mine twice (once was a full day) thanks to the pandemic, but mine weighs 380g and I haven't had a problem. I have my belt quite tight and have modified sprung metal hooks - which for me was the key. I suppose if you are 'jumping around' the hooks could come loose, but I haven't witnessed it yet.

I've purchased scout lids from three different suppliers. It's hard to compete with RS on the lid front. With regards to RS the only I problems I had were with the helmet lining (due to the size of my large head - 24 inch circumference), it pressed on my temples giving me a headache within minutes of putting it on let alone troop with it. This is easily remedied either by removing it, or requesting a helmet without it. The second problem I had was RS seem to favour an off white colour, where as most other suppliers prefer a gloss white. This wasn't really a problem, I just requested a gloss helmet instead of the regular colour and they happily obliged.

I'd love to find a closer cable. I went with the white Home Depot twin core power cable (shipped to the UK from the US) and dyed it grey (not an easy process, and I wasted a lot experimenting) - because that's what I thought it was based on the film, only to discover it's more an off white colour.