Scavenger

I'm alive. Cut the lining out of my wampawear gloves. They actually feel comfortable now.

Love how narrow it looks, some of the issues I have had with others is that they look kinda squat

What size suede was that and what did it run you?

And THEN I got some work done on the first iteration of the undersuit... Added some 1/4" elastic to the wrists as center finger loops to keep the sleeves from slopping out of the gloves and bunching: Followed that with some 2" elastic stirrups to keep the legs from pulling up and bunching, it actually made it really tight down on the shoulders but that is something I will work out in the next iteration: Did some basic work making the suit fit better, took an inch or so from the outside of both legs, maybe a half inch from the inside, a hair in the armpits...ill show off that tomorrow when I get to do a dress out with some pics. Too tired tonight. Needed to add a tiny patch of Velcro right at the neck where there was a small flap that was neither buttoned, zippered, or eye hooked. Turned one of the bottom leg cuts into the mandarin collar... Opened: Closed: Anyways, productive weekend. I'll put up more pictures tomorrow.

Well I got the boots completed...

Roll those bells forward some, they are hanging to the back. Pouches will determine how the bund looks more, I think the length looks fine.

you people and your clothes....COMMANDO....because changing in the parking lot has never tested your stealth abilities more!

You know, I read raglan-sleeved and went "wha?" But then I looked it up and went....OH a Baseball Tee! Dart if you happen to come up with a pattern layout, share please. This will probably be my next piece.

Me either, sadly it will be the weekend before I get time to run the uppers and dogbones to my ma's house for stitching. So unless I hit a windfall of cash earlier than a month from now....guess I'll see if JoAnn's has the fabric for my bund/cod...or start working on the pattern for my vest.

It's before bed. After unpinning I trimmed with the exacto but lopped a bit higher at the back seam so my strips would have something textured to glue to (never used shoegoo before). Since I didn't have anything to make PT's plastic lip with I just used my recently removed shoelaces to pull it in tighter... Worked just fine. Then I was trying to figure out the least messy way to get the glue on for the strips, definately go with put glue on strip, my other paintbrush was file 13 after the initial vinyl application so I used what people in a hurry use when they have already squeezed out glue...a strip of cardboard. And to be honest it worked a hell of a lot better than the brush. I knew the inside section would be the weirdest so I marked how far I needed to get before I masked that section Then it was just an apply-fumble-one handed tape tear operation to get to this point: Peeled the tape back and used the highly technical "thumb rubbing" technique to remove extra glue and here we are. Viola!

Looks like the build is going fine!

OK! Finally got the beasties to give me enough quiet time (of course the day BEFORE I have to go back to work) and so without further adieu... I'll put up some trimmed pics sometime before bed.

order that bund! Looking good though. Keep at it.

I need to nab some of those clips. But the build looks to be going well...keep us informed.

Looks fantastic so far. You are making this look really easy! I'm having more dread about the boot uppers than the entire armor prep.