TheWolf Posted May 4, 2011 Author Posted May 4, 2011 Hopefully these meet with your approval. And the new boots closer...
4505Marcel Posted May 4, 2011 Posted May 4, 2011 Do you have a pic of your tank topper in its current state please? Looks like in the old pics your missing the white painted circle and silver rivit (shouldnt be black)
4505Marcel Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 looking at your vest, we feel that the sleeves need to be shortened a touch. Basically they are covering too much of your bicep armour, shorten them so they site just below your shoulder armour bro which will reveal your armour. Also your bund at the back has a little too much showing uner the belt, ive had to adjust one of these before for someone, I measured from the velcro closure to approx your sides, then tuck in the amount showing under the belt and re sew'd it to sit better along the bottom of the belt, does that make sense mate?
TheWolf Posted May 5, 2011 Author Posted May 5, 2011 I could just fold the vest sleeves over, and resew them shorter. That would save me having to do a heap of unpicking and resewing the sleeve ends. As for the cummerbund,m I am not quite sure what you mean.. You'd like to see less material extend below the belt lin, Or rather, none at all? All the others I have looked at seem to have the cummerbund end about even with the bottom of the belt. Is that the correct length? I can cut/sew/change that pretty easily.
Witness Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 He means in the back, there shouldn't be cummerbund showing below your detonator. Your bund should end somewhere behind your belt/detonator. I am also still a little hesitant on your boots, they are still a little rough and the dogbone is too wide. I'll see if I can get bluecyclone to chime in on those.
4505Marcel Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 Yes mate folding your vest sleeves under and in, and a stitch line around the base will do just fine bro, nothing to tricky.
TheWolf Posted May 5, 2011 Author Posted May 5, 2011 OK, I'll look at shortening the Cummerbund, and the vest sleeves, that's easy enough to do. I could buy and cut/carve/cover new boots again too, but before I do that, could you give me a width on what you would like the dog bone to be be fore I start? The tutorial does not really have any specifics. If you need more photos let me know. I'll take them with my phone from now on, as they are a much lower resolution, and not as clear.
4505Marcel Posted May 5, 2011 Posted May 5, 2011 What size boot do you take mate? I can then tell you what size I do them. There is no hard and fast rule though as such, more the look has to be right, if you look at yours and then say on mine or witness's sale threads you will see the trim looks a lot thinner in the middles, maybe Dave can also tell you what size he would do the trim so we can get another size to compare to.
TheWolf Posted May 5, 2011 Author Posted May 5, 2011 Those boots are a size 10 AUS, or about 11 to 11.5 US I think. The dog bones are about 9 to 9.5 inches from end to end, from memory, and are somewhere betwen 1.5 to 2 inches at the thinest part, once again from memory. I am at work, so I can't just measure them. They were made to "look right" on that size boot, and everone that has seen them thinks they look good, and much better than they did before. I may be able to trim the dog bones thinner without removing them, or re-doing the boots from scratch, but they will be getting close to being close enough to snap when I step forward and the boot flexes. If I had have made them any 'looser', they would have arched above the boot too much. I can get some more glue to tack down some of the edge strip on the toe part, but frankly, every photo I have ever seen of the screen or display used boots are a lot less neat than mine. I think the harsh flash light just shows more detail on the white than you see for real. It certainly shows any dirt or excess glue worse than it really looks.
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