Belt box placement

[NegativeEleven]

Looking at the CRL (Shoretrooper Grunt) before I start punching holes in this belt, i see that it has 3 regular boxes and one long box listed on the belt. The rear belt cover assembly lists another drop box. Is that just one of the ones from the front, or do I need a 5th box?

 

Is there a standard spacing for the 2 center boxes? I assume the others are spaced equally from there based on size of the trooper wearing it.

 

Also, do you attach it to the bottom of the ab armor? I got short binding posts to put the boxes on the belt, but then I thought about it and got some t-nuts to glue on the boxes, and 2 different lengths of screws to put thru: just the belt and belt+bottom edge of ab armor. Using the belt connected to ab and sides and some other strap riveted to top, hidden edge of ab and sides would work like a hinge and save the trouble of having to squeeze into the space where that raised back armor sits. Just taped together, trying to flex the side armor to put it in, I can see myself cracking it in no time.

[TK8271 Rogue Trooper]

Here you go



I would not attach it to the armour , use the buckle and velcro to have a tight fit and it will be ok.




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[NegativeEleven]

I guess that answers one question. I do need 5 of the boxes. Kinda glad now that the kit I got was so bad, I cleaned up one box and made a mold to recast rather than fix casts of bad 3d prints. 

No guidelines for spacing? Just evenly spaced across the front?

The buckle doesn't show under that rear armor, so it could just velcro one over the other like most biker scours or even use a quick release clip (if you can find 3in) like the old scout CRL pic.

You make no effort to hold it onto the ab plate? Maybe I got a bad ab too. Really seems like it's gonna want to slip down and force the ab up if there isn't some attachment. I've seen some people's builds that make the back coverplate attach to the belt's coverplate/thermal detonator. Why not attach the belt to the front?

[TK8271 Rogue Trooper]

Spacing I personally copied as best I could to screen used , but depending on your waist size this can adjust slightly.

On the bottom of the abb armour I have these petals , you can see I have snap studs on them. They are for holding the hip armour to the abb armour. I then just wrap my belt around the top of that and make it nice and tight. I suppose there is no harm in attaching more snaps to the front of you think that will help hold you belt in place.


Once the belt is tight , I attach the rear assembly to the Velcro in the belt



This may explain it better , I made these years ago and they can be found in the ST armour section

Hip armour

Belt

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[BikerScout007]

59 minutes ago, NegativeEleven said:

No guidelines for spacing? Just evenly spaced across the front?

From my observations of the screen armors I've seen, the outer box on each end of the belt seems to fall right at the midpoint of the wearer's side.  So if you use those as your endpoints, you can evenly space out the other boxes.

As you can see, the TD plate meets the last box on each side when connected to the back of the belt.  

[BikerScout007]

1 hour ago, NegativeEleven said:

The buckle doesn't show under that rear armor, so it could just velcro one over the other like most biker scours or even use a quick release clip (if you can find 3in) like the old scout CRL pic.

Well the buckle does show enough that I definitely wanted one to have that extra bit of screen accuracy.  

Also, I'm not sure you could pull the belt tight enough using the Scout-style belt closure.  The buckle gives you a point where you can adjust as needed.  And as Stefan said, you want to pull it tight to hold everything together.  

I walked through how I connect all this stuff last week in this post:

http://forum.501stpathfinders.com/index.php?/topic/21508-hip-armor-attachment-question/

[NegativeEleven]

Ah, haven't started on the hip setup yet, so I wasn't thinking about how that would need to go between armor and belt.

[NegativeEleven]

Is there a good reason for splitting the hip piece in front instead of in back? Seems the hips and belt could be put on as a single piece. 

[TK8271 Rogue Trooper]

Is there a good reason for splitting the hip piece in front instead of in back? Seems the hips and belt could be put on as a single piece. 

They are not split on the originals, from good observation and info from those who wore the actual armour one piece is what it was like.

Some photos of the rear belt and hip armour




Front hip armour , you can see under the belt




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