[Paul]

Just finished Matthews and my Gunners Armour. heres a little write up on it and some pics. It was not really a major job. The Armour came form Mould Man up in QLD, and it is basically front and back Black TK armour, with the shoulder straps. The armour cam as out of the mould so had to be trimmed, it is HIPS, not ABS. I decided to go with Webbing and snaps, the same as on my TK, I have found this a great neat method for wearing armour.

The only thing that stumped me was the shoulder saps, I had not worked with HIPS before so did not really know how to bend it. I was going to glue them on, then rivit them on, but finaly I just put them in hot water, bent them a little and used industrail vlcrow on them. I will see how this gos.

The armour looks great, the only thing that would be of concern is that matt and myself ( me in particular ) are a little in the big size, I would like to eventually get a set of Black FX TK armour to do the same job on, just to scale the armour up a bit.

Thanks to Mould man and others for your advice, I will post pics once we get to actually wear this stuff.

Front view, Armour hanging on chair, under the HIPS straps, is webbing glued between the front and back .

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/novusordo_events/General%20Stuff/IMG_3517.jpg

Side view shows HIPS Straps, Webbing under HIPS and the side webbing, which is snapped both ends, all can be removed for packing.


http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/novusordo_events/General%20Stuff/IMG_3519.jpg

Back showing back strap, 2 hrs and still holding .

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/novusordo_events/General%20Stuff/IMG_3520.jpg

Inside shot showing snaps attachment for the webbing.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u103/novusordo_events/General%20Stuff/IMG_3521.jpg

Paul OM

[Darth Wolfenstein]

looks good to me

with my fx i used the glue cement on the front and velcro at that back but now days they are popped riveted to chest and back to keep them on thats only prob i have with mine realy but i like your set up

cheers

Wolf

[Darth Sullo's]

not bad,
do gunners have those blue red rank bar things to add to it too??
*insert clueless look on face here*

[Foolish Paul]

Nice job Mr Paul... :)

[Grand Moff Niko]

Sullo, on 16 September 2009 - 12:51 PM, said:

not bad,
do gunners have those blue red rank bar things to add to it too??
*insert clueless look on face here*

No. You are thinking of Veers armour :)

[Darth Sullo's]

so its only the officer dudes that wear those? no tie pilots or anything?