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I'm actually glad we found this out and added it to the lancer specs - I have a problem with persistent slippage of my shoulder bells, leaving a bigger gap than there should be, and after my last troop decided I really needed some sort of attachment between chest/back and shoulder bells. This kills two birds with one stone!

Can I ask about the zip ties on the shoulder bells? I've not even heard of this detail before. How is it supposed to go?

Wow! Great find!

My armour is HIPS. What others have said is correct - it has no real flex to it and is somewhat brittle. However, there are positives to it. It is naturally shinier than ABS from what I've seen, and despite occasionally scraping against walls, furniture and other abrasives while trooping, it seems not to scratch up as easily. I can't be sure, but I think it is slightly less dense and so will weigh less for equivalent thickness. My helmet wasn't in any way translucent - I painted it because of needing to use filler, but it would have served fine in its natural state. If you want to know what HIPS is like - it's what they make the salad trays in fridges out of, as far as I can tell.

Welcome, look forward to trooping with you in the future. Stay sharp!

I would point out that from those armour sets, the Chef belt is the ONLY one with an accurate central V.

I have a Chef helmet, and I find that my regular glasses don't fit under it, but my smaller spare pair fit fine. Although I'm OK with contacts, so after my first troop wearing glasses, I have just been using those. I didn't have any fogging issues with the glasses.

Looks like I'm on sanitation duty for the week!

Is this a good time to revisit the separate/attached bund/cod debate? Ow, stop hitting me and throwing things!

I second Chef, his work is very good.

This sounds a lot like what they have said before. Cynical? Me?

How much are these jokers charging for these absent helmets?

I use an Aker voice amplifier, along with the headset mike it came with. I put the amp in the left pouch, thread the wire up through a small hole in the back of the pouch up under the chest armour and inside the flight suit. It works a treat.

Children wouldn't think that, and they're the target audience.

There's always the possibility of modifying it. The waist of the flight suit is never seen, because it's entirely covered by the cummerbund. Cut it in half, sew in a strip of material between the halves, et voila - a longer torso! Although if it's a zip-up, this won't work, I just realised (mine has poppers).