How to make knee armor comfortable

[Dart]

One day, I decided I wanted to upgrade my knee pads. I've had a chunk of foam in each one since I first assembled my kit but they were never really that comfy.

 

Here's how I changed that:

 

What they looked like before...

 

Step 1: Rip that foam out! Also had to repair the cracks in my kneepads (used some epoxy putty for ABS and painted it)

 

Step 2: Picked up a pair of these knee pad inserts (super cheap, look up Duluth Trading.)

 

Step 3: Hack 'n slash 'em to fit the knee armour.

 

Step 4: Using some double-sided foam tape (the 3M indoor/outdoor stuff), I stuck them in the armour. Not pictured is the velcro I stuck in on the middle pad and one strip each on the outer pads.

 

That's it! I bought 2 sets of these pads, shipped for under $20 USD. They fit and feel so much nicer now and they even look kinda cool too.

[Chex]

Looks nice, Andry. Might do something like that when I upgrade to MC armor.

[Griffin-X]

Great idea.

[Gero_am]

excellent idea! and the pad doesn't see when you use it I spouses

[Dart]

Thanks guys.

 

excellent idea! and the pad doesn't see when you use it I spouses

 

Nope, you can't see it. One of the things I really like about the padding I used is that it kinda looks like what would be there if these were real knee pads.