Rainfly's Final Build

[Rainfly]

 

 

 

 

 

A super special thanks to Jeff from Studio Creations who sent me an emergency bicep armor piece.

 

Fire away everyone! After many months of toiling, I am as closed to finished as I think I can be.

[EnigmaEngine]

Looks good! One question: where are the rank stripes on your tank?

[Pandatrooper]

Good work so far. I feel the calves of the boots are a bit too tight, could be a more tapered shape bigger at the top. The left boot overlap closure in the back seems to be facing the wrong way?

 

Also maybe the lower pants are a bit tight? Needs some blousing?

[Rainfly]

Enigma: I didn't want to add the rank stripes. Not until I get some troops in

 

Terry: Pants are tight because 1. Like you pointed out, the boots are narrow at the top opening. 2. They have elastic feet bands and I am 6'3" and it pulls them tight.

 

Would the boots be something to keep me from 501st?

[Chef]

Pull your pouches in bud.

They need to sit pretty much on the outermost lines of your cummerbund.

 

You need to have at least 1 rank stripe.

 

Pull your bicep armour around to the sides more. They ideally want to sit on the outside, not towards the back of your biceps. I'd also raise them up an inch or so.

Forearm armour, raise these slightly. You want the upper part of the forearm plate to rest of the elbow.

 

Marcel will say you'd need to shorten your flak vest sleeves by about an inch.

 

I'd drop the front of your belt down a little, just so it hides that uppermost seam line on your cummerbund

 

I can't actually see the crotch patch on your suit? Straps check... but I can't see the patch.

 

Your bund strap, should be 2" it looks like 1.3/4"

 

For a sense of completeness you could add in the 1/2" straps to the upper part of the knees.

 

Boot closures need to both face inwards.

Whilst you're at it, you could cut the sole details.

 

 

Now don't be disheartened that the list seems pretty long.

I'm basing these observations on what I would suggest for Lancer.

 

You've done a nice job and the armour sits proportionately well on your tall frame. My suggestions are just those finessing tweaks to make it brilliant.

[4505Marcel]

Rob you know me to well lol

 

Unfortunately the boots you have need some work dude as Rob has pointed out, personally I would re do the verticle ribs on your bund and loose one. That way the pouches can come inwards which they really need. Everything looks a good fit on you, is your thong elastic 50mm as it looks thinner than the thighs?

[Rainfly]

Thank you all for the specific input. I will work on the boots this weekend. Do you think I could get away with just moving the pouches in a bit to avoid redoing the vertical stitches on the bund? Also, they are hanging outward from the bund; if I get those flushed against the bund they should look closer together.

 

Objectively speaking, how far apart should the pouches be? I always read that it should be about one vertical bar off to the side.

 

The 'thong' is indeed smaller than 2"; I didn't realize that had to be 2". Hopefully I can get the vest cropped up a bit this weekend too.

 

Things to do:

Fix boot velcro

Swap out thong elastic

Reposition various hardarmor

Add one rank bar

Pull in vest sleeves by ~inch

Bring pouches in a bit

 

Anything else?

[Chef]

The pouches, if you line up the inner edge of the pouches with the outermost edge of the bund stripes you'll be good.

 

It's only an inch either side.

 

Ideally your bund stitches should be a little tighter and dropping down to 5, but it's nothing to worry about now. One of those 'as and when' mods.

 

 

The pouches sit under that grey indent on the chest piece. As we've subsequently found, there are only 5 ribs on the bund rather than the previously thought 6. 6 is still ok for the CRL, so don't panic.

Also, if they're not quite an inch wide (as yours appear to be), then they tighten up further, so as that happens, the pouches do appear to be about a rib width away from the stitch lines. It's all a matter of scaling, and it can never be truly right because everyone's frame sizes are different.

 

 

And remember, here at BSN we're being ultra critical and we make a habit of being around scouts so we know what we're looking at. A less keen eyed GML might not pick up on half the things we've noticed and you'll probably get cleared as is.

 

But that's not what WE are about. It's not about just being 'good enough'. It's about being the best you can be.

[Rainfly]

Inspirational words Chef! Thank you. I really do want to perfect this armor, it's just easy to get pumped to actually be in the 501st.

 

So much respect to your attention to detail.

 

Ill work on what you guys recommended and post pictures.

[chimei]

didn't see this comment (unless I just missed it) but the knees need the second strip of elastic riveted in.

not in the "basic" CRL listed on this site, but they just don't look right without it. takes about 3 min to add them, and the new SC knees have the return edge...so it's a piece of cake