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[Triple9]

Hi everyone this will be my first build of any kind, I'm wanting to go with a black and red theme, I have a pair of coveralls I need to die, I have a old spear gun to make into a sniper rifle and I have a nerf shotgun to mod.

This is my concept


Helmet


Spear gun


Shotgun


Wanting to see what people think of the sizing on my plates?


Thats it for now

[Jaegun Clark]

Hey mate!

Concept looks pretty solid, and I like the idea behind that spear gun! Can't wait to see what you do with that!

As to the plates, I think they might be slightly too wide. I reckon about a centimetre or two off the outside edges should really help.

[Havelock]

Additionally, you'll want to move the collar up to where it's almost choking you, then put the chest plates no more than an inch below it.  Then the ab plate no more than an inch below those.  The bottom of the ab plate should rest on or near your navel, but no more than about an inch above it. 

Jaegun's right about your plates being too wide.  Check out Jango here:



If you notice, he doesn't actually have a whole lot of armor coverage.  And you can see that if he were to touch his left shoulder with his right hand, it wouldn't move his plates around.  That's the sort of coverage you're ideally going to want. 

So trim those bad boys down and tape 'em up again, and we'll give 'em another looksie.   

[Triple9]

Thanks guys i'll pull out the scissors and get to it.

[Havelock]

Awesome

[Tiric Keel]

Posting to follow, can't wait to see this come to life! 

[Triple9]

Couldn't find the diamond but if i could get opinions on the rest of the plates thankks.

[Dar'manda]

They look a little small to me vod.

[Jaegun Clark]

Couldn't find the diamond but if i could get opinions on the rest of the plates thankks.

I think we've gone a bit too far with the cutting. Looking at the templates, I think I may not have explained what I meant by saying the outside edge. The first lot of templates were good length-wise, I think all you needed was to take 1-2 centimetres off the outside, so just 1-2 cm off the edge facing your arms. Nothing off the bottoms or inside edges, just the outside.

[Triple9]

I cut some off all around the plates, back to the drawing board, would be alot easier if my printer worked it'll copy stuff put wont print.

[Havelock]

I'm in the "I don't have a printer" boat, too so I feel your pain.  When you can, print out the templates and give it another go.  We'll be here to help out and guide you along.

[Dar'manda]

If you took off 1-2cm all the way around, you can still fix it. Take your templates and glue them down on a blank sheet of paper. Use a ruler as a straight edge and go around the templates and add back the 1-2cm in the places I've highlighted. Then cut out your new patterns.   This should give you back the length without effecting the width or having to printout new templates.

[Havelock]

Or you could do ^^^^ that.   

[Triple9]

Thanks didn't think of doing it that way will hopefully have pa photo up later today

[Dar'manda]

Thanks didn't think of doing it that way will hopefully have pa photo up later today

Np!

[Triple9]

Took me a few days to get around to this but redid templates

[Sulkon88]

I think there needs to be a bit more space between chest and lower plate. Just eyeballing but Maybe shave off a bit on the sides of the chest pieces and maybe make the lower plate a bit larger.