PunkRocketScience Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 Hi all! I'm really excited to have started working on doing an upgrade alternate for my grunt shoretrooper to a heavy! I am thinking I can maintain the current kit with the addition of a few alternate parts. I have ordered a couple new pouches and have started printing out alternate belt boxes and Pringles can. I'm thinking I can use rare earth magnets to attach the forearm shotgun shells without having to create an alternate left forearm armor. Worth trying for sure! If not, I will just get a spare and attach them on permanently. Pics will be coming along shortly I hope! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikerScout007 Posted November 16, 2020 Share Posted November 16, 2020 46 minutes ago, PunkRocketScience said: Hi all! I'm really excited to have started working on doing an upgrade alternate for my grunt shoretrooper to a heavy! I am thinking I can maintain the current kit with the addition of a few alternate parts. I have ordered a couple new pouches and have started printing out alternate belt boxes and Pringles can. I'm thinking I can use rare earth magnets to attach the forearm shotgun shells without having to create an alternate left forearm armor. Worth trying for sure! If not, I will just get a spare and attach them on permanently. Pics will be coming along shortly I hope! Excellent, let's get this baby done! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkRocketScience Posted November 28, 2020 Author Share Posted November 28, 2020 I got a couple new sets of M65 pouches, and of course one of them had more "battle damage" than expected... Crushed completely out of shape. I made up some 3D printed inserts to stretch them back to shape. Figured these would be lighter and more functional than using wood inserts. Added a hollow space and a couple dimples so that they would be easy to pull out from the pouch and be able to retrieve keys or anything else that would fit into the pouch. The .STL file is posted to Thingiverse in case anyone else would find it useful:https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4668397 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkRocketScience Posted November 28, 2020 Author Share Posted November 28, 2020 Here are the new shotgun shells for the forearm with the magnets on them. The magnets were slightly larger than I wanted, and will end up hanging out slightly from below the shell... But from most angles they shouldn't be visible, and will be painted beige as well, so they won't be obtrusive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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