Utinni534

So might be better off ordering a new chest and ripping everything apart?

Looking for some advice, have a WTF kit, and this crack happened a couple weeks ago, right on the bottom of the chest plate, so I learned it's about as flexible as hard steel, but looking for some ideas how to fix it

Well, tweaked everything that was mentioned, managed to work around certain parts without needing complete replacement, and first go approved as a Scout, TB 39054 reporting for bike patrol https://dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ydya1xbgz6oucr12vhzg5/received_444395228433459.jpeg?rlkey=p64m3gbr7g0ktv92m8cbze4bx&dl=0

I'm pretty sure my haunted house name would be the house of drill bits lol, im sure I've got one somewhere, was hoping to avoid having to drill again but I guess it's probably the easiest option

Okay, crazy idea, would I be able to get away with bending a piece or leftover plastic into the space left over in the holster and gluing it in place? Probably have to fill and paint and blah blah blah to get it to work but just trying to spitball ideas that don't involve buying a new pair of boots

The amount of headaches this thing keeps giving me I almost want to just let it go

Holster also came pre assembled, most of the work has been done at an armor party but unfortunately I don't have many scouts up my way, I'll post a better picture of the holster when I get home but it's already riveted in place, yellow portion is glue, I think I'll have to drill out the tank topper since it's also riveted in and swap for the Walt one, which is gonna be another pain since it's already secured onto the back and it came with an additional strip with glue onto the back

I still do have the tank topper from the Walt kit, only pain then would be taking that one off since it's been glued in for a long time

Main issue with colour difference, im colorblind lol, well red/green colorblind but similar colors all blend together for me, I had used the rank bars and pin striping off a Walt kit, and the tank came from Kropserkel when I messed up the original

The bund I completely screwed up and put everything on the opposite sides of what it should have been, normally not a problem but Keep Trooping sews a velcro patch and a size tag right into the pattern so if I ripped that out then I'd have to re sew the whole vertical pattern

And here's the pin striping

Yeah it was quite a bit of eyeballing, I'll get a better picture to see if that will help, the boot isn't totally accurate but you can see into the front of it quite a bit when it's on, topper came pre attached to the tank

Sort of, bought a replacement tank, not perfect but it's much better

Okay, been a while since I posted, been making progress in the background, unfortunately I'll have to completely redo the cummerbund since I sewed the velcro and pouches on the wrong side, and gotta work on the belt, but its getting there, have an issue with the holster, the front of it has a big gap between the boot and the holster when worn, would judt gluing a spare piece of plastic work to fix that?

Yeah I realized that after I glued it on, might see if I can play with it a bit with a file instead of having to bust out the dremel again

Okay, ended up doing a lot of fiddling, and got it to work I hope well enough for approval

Started to trim a little, probably need quite a bit more taken off but it's a start

Yeah its tough for me even to follow a video going through it, since most videos I've watched just seem to breeze through it, but I think once I get a day off first thing is I'll take the sides and top in a bit and play with that

Drew myself out some rough lines where I think cuts should be going, much rather do this kinda stuff face to face but for now it'll do, let me know if I need to change anything before i start with the scissors

Okay, watched a different video from RS props as well and that gave me more detail that I needed to show the lines I need to cut, now just to do it

The only thing I'm worried about is I already took too much off of it, like it won't look right if I keep trimming

Dont think theres a lot I can do with it without some serious work with a heat gun, I've got a good sized sheet of ABS but it would probably take a lot of work for one Jawa to do D

Yeah I looked at it, but with the Walt kit the outer part of the holster comes in a piece of plastic the same size as the inner holster, so it's just difficult gauging where to trim, those t-bit just looked grey when looking on the CRL page, but once I clicked on the picture it came black

Aaaaaaaand I completely messed up, I cut the back tank to be straight instead of rounded so it touches the bottom of the back armor, there probably goes more money to get a replacement cause I don't think this is gonna be very easily fixable

Okay, at the point now where I'm stuck, I have absolutely no clue what to do with the holster pieces to get them right, I know the one piece I wont need to do much but trim to fit the boot, the part that goes on the outside I have 0 clue where to cut, and to add to my question, the t-bit details for the arm bands, are those supposed to be black or a dark grey, I'm a bit colourblind so it's a little confusing