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After looking at the images, it looks like there is no diaper on the armor. So instead of a cummer like to old scout, how about we go vest on this one.

 

Have you noticed... no seen belt either!

 

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I think a vest is probably the best way to go.

I advise to go for a solution as the vest cummerbund combo discussed for the scout, just that the upper part is made of camomaterial.

That there is no tan vest going all over the torso you can see in various pictures where the area under the arms are dark as well as the back/neck area.

I also don't think the vest is opened at the front but again in the back.

 

The belts are covered by the amounts of pouches the barc is surrounded with. Only the buckle can be guessed as the front boxes' (thigh boxes) strapping goes in the same way to the center of a supposedly buckle as the scouts' do.

 

Instead of the diaper's crouch they have a hardshell there.

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Yeah Army after our discussion yesterday gotta be a vest and I agree with Madphisto that it looks like a hard shell. It looks like it is attached to the vest and there is no belt. Unless the belt is under the vest.

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OK vest I think would be best. Now what color? Looks like the same camo scheme as the hard armor.

 

Maybe a winter/white camo?

 

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OK vest I think would be best. Now what color? Looks like the same camo scheme as the hard armor.

 

Maybe a winter/white camo?

 

Army Scout

 

 

 

Judging by the screen shots in the gallery the vest should be the same color and pattern as the rest of the suit. This is just my opinion.

 

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Judging by the screen shots in the gallery the vest should be the same color and pattern as the rest of the suit. This is just my opinion.

 

TB2849

"You have no friends at 200 mph."

 

The undersuit is the dark camo, the armor is a lighter camo. I am thinkin of the lighter armor camo colors.

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We could be more sure if those Barcs wouldn't have a fetish with pouches...

I think they're light olive, no camo.

 

At least that is what these pictures show me. Another few observations and questions added as well:

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We could be more sure if those Barcs wouldn't have a fetish with pouches...

I think they're light olive, no camo.

 

At least that is what these pictures show me. Another few observations and questions added as well:

 

Agreed...a olive drab green....

 

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I second that, it seems like a good base color for it.

 

Ok, please excuse my crappy photoshop skills, but this is what im thing off..

 

Army Scout

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Ok, please excuse my crappy photoshop skills, but this is what im thing off..

 

Army Scout

 

Not bad, that woud save money and time. If it means less layers to wear it is ok for me.

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I think that is no real stitching as we are used to - it looks as if instead of oft fill material there is something more solid and more elevated with larger gaps between them. Transferered to real life I would say there needs to be foam bricks of let's say 10 mm elevation under the fabric and a gab at least of the same dimension. Might be that this is simulating armor shards implemented into the material.

 

The pouch there might have a similar flap pattern but it got a more horizontal stretched look and seems zto be smaller.

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I think that is no real stitching as we are used to - it looks as if instead of oft fill material there is something more solid and more elevated with larger gaps between them. Transferered to real life I would say there needs to be foam bricks of let's say 10 mm elevation under the fabric and a gab at least of the same dimension. Might be that this is simulating armor shards implemented into the material.

 

I completely agree with that. I've been trying to figure out how to put that into words and it looks like you did it for me!

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Ok using army scouts image and taking some measurements I have done myself could you relatively wrap this up by saying;

Having a vest like this made in olive green

Then with the bikerscout chest piece on I say a measurement of around 6" space for two layers of 2 1/2" by say 1 1/2" soft padded pieces

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My rough image of the front, have 10 pieces 2 1/2"x 1 1/2" and 8 pieces of 1 1/2" x 1 1/2"

leave the two areas with two slots instead of one in each open area to place a alice clip in both for the pouches.

 

My rough image of the back

shirtsizeback.gif

8 pieces of 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" along the top leaving a section out in the middle

8 pieces of 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" along the bottom also leaving a section out in the middle

 

Apply strapping through the middle going from top to bottom with four slots to hold pouches with alice clips

and then running from side to side stitched at both ends round to the hip another strap to hold the four pouches.

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post-1-1145635362_thumb.jpg

 

Ok using army scouts image and taking some measurements I have done myself could you relatively wrap this up by saying;

Having a vest like this made in olive green

Then with the bikerscout chest piece on I say a measurement of around 6" space for two layers of 2 1/2" by say 1 1/2" soft padded pieces

Shirt_Size.gif

My rough image of the front, have 10 pieces 2 1/2"x 1 1/2" and 8 pieces of 1 1/2" x 1 1/2"

leave the two areas with two slots instead of one in each open area to place a alice clip in both for the pouches.

 

My rough image of the back

shirtsizeback.gif

8 pieces of 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" along the top leaving a section out in the middle

8 pieces of 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" along the bottom also leaving a section out in the middle

 

Apply strapping through the middle going from top to bottom with four slots to hold pouches with alice clips

and then running from side to side stitched at both ends round to the hip another strap to hold the four pouches.

Very nice, Best layout od the flak vest I've seen !!!! Also, the BARC chest armor rides really high and appears alot smaller than the biker scout chest armor

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Very nice, Best layout od the flak vest I've seen !!!! Also, the BARC chest armor rides really high and appears alot smaller than the biker scout chest armor

 

I cannot see it being hard to make a vest of that type anyway its just trying to locate someone that makes or sells the little soft piece panels.

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I cannot see it being hard to make a vest of that type anyway its just trying to locate someone that makes or sells the little soft piece panels.

 

Looks like the straps on the current Mollie Gear!

 

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Looks like a modified version of the above vest Armyscout Hmmmm... <_<

Can we adapt certain partd of it to our needs?..? <_<

~Mike

 

Looks promising, but good luck. I am not too certain how simple it will be to modify THAT actual vest. Mollie gear is in circulation for our U.S. troops and I can't imagine kevlar is simple to cut up and sew, plus I'll bet it comes with a not so friendly price tag...

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Looks promising, but good luck. I am not too certain how simple it will be to modify THAT actual vest. Mollie gear is in circulation for our U.S. troops and I can't imagine kevlar is simple to cut up and sew, plus I'll bet it comes with a not so friendly price tag...

 

I did'nt mean to modify the actual vest but adapt / use some of the visual aspects of it.

I was thinking making urethane rubber molds of the "blocks" and placed on a flexible material. <_<

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Okay here's my take on the vest layout.....granted this is CGI and the boys who layed it out can pretty much do as they please.

 

In all likelyhood the two would be seperate...the webgear and the under armor "soft good" type vest layered upon eachother.

 

If you think about it, you want an armored mid-section for protection, but you want the ability to move around as well......honestly to me I think you would need to go with a solid color undervest which would simply be a flat piece of material that would wrap around the body or make a vest period. From there you would sew on velcro in strips to accept individual armor plates that would be cut into the strips that are shown in the one previous layout that skywarker 1982 posted...I suppose it's all up to interperatation but if you were going to make a flexible hard type vest that would be the reasonable assumption to make in this situation. Also with using hard armor strips you could make hardpoints to attach the various pouches to the armor. I still think there is going to be a belts along the midline to hold up the lowermost pouches and the same could be assumed that a type of webgear would run up each shoulder to hold the longer pouches, well really all the pouches in place. As for settling on a color...I think your going to have to rely on painting the fabric with an airbrush to get it to match the armor...sure you would want to start with an olive green or similar base color fabric but in the end you would still need to paint it to get it to match the patteren on the armor.

 

This wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination since it's not unheard of to paint up equipment to match a particular theater of operation when your pressed into new fronts and don't have the luxury of having things made for each field operation. Yes it's only a movie but if you bring it into a real world type context where you have troops moving to many different fronts they cant just make new armor for every man in the field.

 

 

 

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