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Originally Posted By FedDC: There is a huge market for modifying VS17s.  Add glint tape in shapes…loop Velcro to the center for IFF patches or thermal vis panels…reversible to American Flag… Originally Posted By FedDC: Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: I am going to have to learn to sew better if I keep trying to make things. Or maybe measure things, and draw straight lines before I start with the scissors. Lol https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0568_jpeg-3500252.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0569_jpeg-3500253.JPG There is a huge market for modifying VS17s.  Add glint tape in shapes…loop Velcro to the center for IFF patches or thermal vis panels…reversible to American Flag… Things are moving fast in the world of field sensors. If folks take some time to read up on the companies making AI/Algorithm assisted thermal/night vision…….. it is clear that the next generation of signaling is here. In a couple years all the camo pattern debates will be gone on Arfcom, since cameras will simply overlay the detected shapes within sensors. You will all come running back to OD green where you belong!  “ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein |
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Originally Posted By marnsdorff: There's a buttpack and one of my utility pouches that I just finished up today. Â They are getting sewn onto a wide British style padded belt, similar-ish to the Crossfire belt. Â Buttpack with a utility pouch on each side to hold water bottles or canteens. Â They all ride the same height, to create a shelf. Â I reinforce the inside of the buttpack where I sew it onto the belt with webbing, and the belt has a piece of webbing going all the way through the belt, that the buttpack gets sewn onto also, makes it nice a stable. Â I put 4 x columns of molle on each side of those pouches. Â I also do a molle attachment version of the buttpack (and water bottle pouches) - the buttpack takes up 6 x columns of molle, the water bottle pouches 2 x columns. Â The buttpack is my flagship product, I sell more of those than anything. https://i.ibb.co/zHhNKXbh/signal-2025-04-16-213023-002.jpg Great looking kit Marns, for sure. That splinter setup is straight up flexing. |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Things are moving fast in the world of field sensors. If folks take some time to read up on the companies making AI/Algorithm assisted thermal/night vision…….. it is clear that the next generation of signaling is here. In a couple years all the camo pattern debates will be gone on Arfcom, since cameras will simply overlay the detected shapes within sensors. You will all come running back to OD green where you belong! “ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" - Albert Einstein Thus the more obscure camo the better you say? |
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Originally Posted By wsix: Great looking kit Marns, for sure. That splinter setup is straight up flexing. Yea, come to find out, belt kits look sick in splinter. I'm doing another set of splinter for one of the other guys on here, who's' also getting one of the medium ALICE packs I'm doing in Splinter. Which is also going to look awesome in splinter. |
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Originally Posted By wsix: I've been haunting your alice pack thread. I've avoided posting the Caddyshack "well, we're waiting." meme I probably deserve it, lol.  I'm trying to finish up the last couple orders from before the medium ALICE was officially kicked off, got most of them done today. I have a guy who's deploying I need to finish a custom pouch for still, but I'm shifting over to the medium ALICE project starting tomorrow. Got most of the patterns done, I need to update one of them (with the issued sleep system attachment points), then finish sealing them and then cut fabric for the first prototype, planning on doing that tomorrow. I'm going to try to have the first prototype done this weekend, unless there's something wrong with my pattern. I don't think there is though, and other than a few tweaks, I think it will go smoothly. If it does, I'll post it and get some feedback from you guys, then update the pattern as needed. It might need a 2nd prototype, but once I get it dialed in, it shouldn't take long to sew these up. I still need to do the pattern for the lid and claymore pouch, but that's the last thing to do and will be easy. |
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Originally Posted By wsix: Wouldn't unique camo, as in home made, get past that? Originally Posted By wsix: Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: In a couple years all the camo pattern debates will be gone on Arfcom, since cameras will simply overlay the detected shapes within sensors. Wouldn't unique camo, as in home made, get past that? The best camo is found on the OG-107 pattern of uniform. :-) That being said, i do enjoy some of the older stuff such as the Strichtarn pattern or even desert night camo. I suspect home made camo would work once. |
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Originally Posted By marnsdorff: Yea, come to find out, belt kits look sick in splinter. I'm doing another set of splinter for one of the other guys on here, who's' also getting one of the medium ALICE packs I'm doing in Splinter. Â Which is also going to look awesome in splinter. I think using coyote webbing helps it 'pop'. High fashion. |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: The best camo is found on the OG-107 pattern of uniform. :-) That being said, i do enjoy some of the older stuff such as the Strichtarn pattern or even desert night camo. Â I suspect home made camo would work once. I love getting validation for all my camo choices 
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SSgt Jason A Decker. 11/6/09
"I'll come for the killing and stay for the cheesecake"
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Originally Posted By Ex_Sanguine_Nation: I think using coyote webbing helps it 'pop'. High fashion. Yea, I thought so too. I think the Medium ALICE pack is going to look smart in Splinter too, the Medium ALICE looks like something that could have been an evolution of the German style packs from WW2. |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: The best camo is found on the OG-107 pattern of uniform. :-) That being said, i do enjoy some of the older stuff such as the Strichtarn pattern or even desert night camo. Â I suspect home made camo would work once. OD sticks out like a sore thumb in most of the environments found out here. Even in lodgepole/white pine forests, all green or green-dominant patterns are way too much and stick out. But, damn do I love me some OD (and French leopard/lizard and DPM).
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"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
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Originally Posted By marnsdorff: Full set I did for a customer in Splinter. Â These are his pictures. Â The pouches are empty. Â https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/188236/1000017646-3500496.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/188236/1000017644-3500495.jpg Coyote brown straps and hardware go well with all camo types. Nice work! |
"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
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Originally Posted By lew: Coyote brown straps and hardware go well with all camo types. Nice work! Yea, coyote is my go to unless it's multicam or multicam tropic or ranger green (and I'm using ranger green webbing), then I use the 499 Tan hardware. It's just a little more on the green side. |
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Originally Posted By lew: OD sticks out like a sore thumb in most of the environments found out here. Even in lodgepole/white pine forests, all green or green-dominant patterns are way too much and stick out. Â But, damn do I love me some OD (and French leopard/lizard and DPM). I have that, and a huge mix of german stuff. and MC. and a bunch of other stuff
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RS Callsign Mayhem Midget
"I'll come for the killing and stay for the cheesecake"
SSgt Jason A Decker. 11/6/09
"I'll come for the killing and stay for the cheesecake"
SSgt Jason A Decker. 11/6/09
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Originally Posted By stoner01: I have that, and a huge mix of german stuff. and MC. and a bunch of other stuff We have a problem. We should do something about it... but... we won't.
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"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
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I don't have a problem! *ignores the literal pile of gear sitting on the floor next to my cutting table, which is covered in all the material for my medium alice project* *moves the boxes of alice frames off the table next to my sewing machine to make room for the patterns I'm working on tonight* |
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Originally Posted By wsix: I need the volume of a buttpack. Utility pouches are just not big enough for my needs. Even if the volume of the two pouches are almost equal, they still won't hold a large thing. Originally Posted By wsix: Originally Posted By marnsdorff: Not many people do sewn on BUTTPACKS. Â Utility pouches, yes. Â Buttpacks, no. Â Nixieworks has theirs. Â And I do mine with buttpacks. I need the volume of a buttpack. Utility pouches are just not big enough for my needs. Even if the volume of the two pouches are almost equal, they still won't hold a large thing. It would be interesting to build a belt around a lumbar pack, like a Mountainsmith or the like. iirc you can approximate that with Kifaru and Marsupial Gear and still have molle for ammo pouches and a holster. |
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Originally Posted By brachiosaur: It would be interesting to build a belt around a lumbar pack, like a Mountainsmith or the like. iirc you can approximate that with Kifaru and Marsupial Gear and still have molle for ammo pouches and a holster. It's already being done. Nixieworks's set of belt kit is kinda that. Kifaru has (had?) one. Mel Terkla's Pocket Up has one (he's retiring here in a few months btw). Hill People Gear has one in the works. |
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Originally Posted By brachiosaur: It would be interesting to build a belt around a lumbar pack, like a Mountainsmith or the like. iirc you can approximate that with Kifaru and Marsupial Gear and still have molle for ammo pouches and a holster. I did that with a Kelty pack with two water bottle holders. I fucking riveted the pack to an alice belt, hit it with krylon, slap some alive suspenders on it, and put a couple Italian 4 mag pouches on it. I gave it to a friend who had no gear. I had it in this configuration for hiking. I didn't like it for hiking.  ETA- I guess it's a fanny pack, not a lumbar. I'm dumb. |
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Found this in a used clothing store of all places, USAF issue female body armor since 2020. Made by Aspetto, contracted thru TSSI, has Paraclete 3a inserts. I bought for the collection, i May have my wife wear It since it's a female armor. Has a quad release not unlike the Army SPCS or early MSV vests.   Here's the full set as issue: extra protectors for groin, lower back, throat and biceps plus two low vis carriers, one made of ripstop and mesh, the other in cordura. Only the Mag insert for the flap Is missing. 
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My ozark’s homestead rig Khaki Eagle belt, canteen, and mag pouches Condor od butt pack and coyote shoulder harness Attached File Attached File |
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Its that time of the year again, spring has sprung. Two trips, two weeks in a row. Attached File |
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Headed out tomorrow for a few days. The ticks are super bad this year, i pulled numerous off me when i got home last week. Two on my dick. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Headed out tomorrow for a few days. The ticks are super bad this year, i pulled numerous off me when i got home last week. Two on my dick. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0625_jpeg-3535484.JPG Reminds me of trying to take a piss out in the bush for the first time in Alaska. Looked down and nearly freaked out. I knew the mosquitos were bad, but not that bad. |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Headed out tomorrow for a few days. The ticks are super bad this year, i pulled numerous off me when i got home last week. Two on my dick. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0625_jpeg-3535484.JPG You probably already know this, but if you soak your clothing in permethrin, it will help a lot. They tell you not to let it touch your skin, but I also spray my underwear and socks. I also spray extra on collars, belt lines, cuffs, sleeves, etc. Anywhere that could be an "entry point" for ticks. Our FTXs usually last 4-6 days in the woods, and we have had zero ticks in the last 3 years. Dudes laying right next to us are rolling up with 12+ ticks from a 2 hr security shift. It also helps with mosquitoes, but to a lesser degree. Pic thread. 
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Originally Posted By bcauz3y: You probably already know this, but if you soak your clothing in permethrin, it will help a lot. They tell you not to let it touch your skin, but I also spray my underwear and socks. I also spray extra on collars, belt lines, cuffs, sleeves, etc. Anywhere that could be an "entry point" for ticks. Our FTXs usually last 4-6 days in the woods, and we have had zero ticks in the last 3 years. Dudes laying right next to us are rolling up with 12+ ticks from a 2 hr security shift. It also helps with mosquitoes, but to a lesser degree. Pic thread. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/221816/Recon-3535962.png Originally Posted By bcauz3y: Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Headed out tomorrow for a few days. The ticks are super bad this year, i pulled numerous off me when i got home last week. Two on my dick. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0625_jpeg-3535484.JPG You probably already know this, but if you soak your clothing in permethrin, it will help a lot. They tell you not to let it touch your skin, but I also spray my underwear and socks. I also spray extra on collars, belt lines, cuffs, sleeves, etc. Anywhere that could be an "entry point" for ticks. Our FTXs usually last 4-6 days in the woods, and we have had zero ticks in the last 3 years. Dudes laying right next to us are rolling up with 12+ ticks from a 2 hr security shift. It also helps with mosquitoes, but to a lesser degree. Pic thread. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/221816/Recon-3535962.png Yeah, I get the horse grade spray from tractor supply. Usually works well, this year they are thick. Going to see if this 3D printed coax real survives being rucked all weekend. I suspect we have a deep, wide river crossing. So I am hoping a have enough rope for the one rope bridge. Will take pics if my phone is still charged by then. Attached File Gear wagon Attached File |
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Originally Posted By bcauz3y: You probably already know this, but if you soak your clothing in permethrin, it will help a lot. They tell you not to let it touch your skin, but I also spray my underwear and socks. I also spray extra on collars, belt lines, cuffs, sleeves, etc. Anywhere that could be an "entry point" for ticks. Our FTXs usually last 4-6 days in the woods, and we have had zero ticks in the last 3 years. Dudes laying right next to us are rolling up with 12+ ticks from a 2 hr security shift. It also helps with mosquitoes, but to a lesser degree. Pic thread. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/221816/Recon-3535962.png It’s me, I’m dudes with the 11  ticksI won’t be so conservative with the permethrin next time. |
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Testing out the Crossfire MULE, using a Molle II frameset. Attached File No….. i dont know if the straps are on correctly. Lol
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Testing out the Crossfire MULE, using a Molle II frameset. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0643_jpeg-3547779.JPG No .. i dont know if the straps are on correctly. Lol |
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Originally Posted By caduckgunner: Please report on it. I was looking at the same set up to haul a 5 gallon water can. Originally Posted By caduckgunner: Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Testing out the Crossfire MULE, using a Molle II frameset. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0643_jpeg-3547779.JPG No .. i dont know if the straps are on correctly. Lol Holds the weight nice and close to the frame. I might add another…… safety strap from top to bottom. The bottom shelf is held on with a toggle, which i know should hold fine…… but a buckle strap would make me feel better about it. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Holds the weight nice and close to the frame. I might add another safety strap from top to bottom. The bottom shelf is held on with a toggle, which i know should hold fine but a buckle strap would make me feel better about it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0646_jpeg-3549330.JPG |
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Originally Posted By caduckgunner: That's exactly what I was looking for. I was going to us a alice pack frame and shelf, but I think this might be a better option. Originally Posted By caduckgunner: Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Holds the weight nice and close to the frame. I might add another  safety strap from top to bottom. The bottom shelf is held on with a toggle, which i know should hold fine  but a buckle strap would make me feel better about it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0646_jpeg-3549330.JPG The center post on the ALICE bowing out, does not do any favors. The shelf is also kinda narrow front/back. It can be done for sure, but I can tell you the MOLLE frame/MULE is a lot better option. Carrying the ALICE shelf around, with cargo straps is also a pain. The MULE you can just cram down in the bottom of your ruck. |
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The only logical course of action is to find a way to mount this in my subaru. Attached File |
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Maybe…….. too retro. Lol. I guess the plastic frame retro fits this to 2025. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By TacticalPlinker: Very nice. Always liked Ranger Green myself, along with woodland camo. What brand/model is the backpack and the bag above it with the tourniquet? Thanks. The pack is a LBT-8006A in Ranger green and Multicam black. The fanny pack is a Spiritus Systems BIG Fanny Sack. |
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Kit to sew faraday cloth tape, onto nylon to make field J Pole Antennas. Someone should just sew a GMRS antenna on the side of a backpack. That would be sweet. Cut mine for 152ish MHz VHF. Attached File Shield your eyes from my unsightly sewing. Attached File Od green spray paint Attached File |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Kit to sew faraday cloth tape, onto nylon to make field J Pole Antennas. Someone should just sew a GMRS antenna on the side of a backpack. That would be sweet. Cut mine for 152ish MHz VHF. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0700_jpeg-3592299.JPG Shield your eyes from my unsightly sewing. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0704_jpeg-3592302.JPG Od green spray paint https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0707_jpeg-3592494.JPG Looks like that will get the job done. Good work. |
"What is socialism? The most difficult and tortuous way to progress from capitalism to capitalism." -Stated at an intel conference, East Berlin, Oct. 1988
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken
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The journey to suck less at sewing marches on. Of course Joann store closed……. So that was an hour drive for nothing. And hobby lobby sucks ass for sewing stuffs. So ran out of tan thread. O well. Hasty repairs of holes, and RAID modded an old desert top I had stored in the attic, Attached File |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: Kit to sew faraday cloth tape, onto nylon to make field J Pole Antennas. Someone should just sew a GMRS antenna on the side of a backpack. That would be sweet. Cut mine for 152ish MHz VHF. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0700_jpeg-3592299.JPG Shield your eyes from my unsightly sewing. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0704_jpeg-3592302.JPG Od green spray paint https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0707_jpeg-3592494.JPG Hey, it works, right? The stitching hold ok in the end? That's what matters. And your stitching is relatively straight, and you are holding it relatively close to the same distance from the edge. You'll get the hang of it. You should see my early sewing projects EDIT: They make feet with guides built into them, they will help you early on learn to keep it a certain distance away from things. |
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Originally Posted By WillieTangoFox: The journey to suck less at sewing marches on. Of course Joann store closed……. So that was an hour drive for nothing. And hobby lobby sucks ass for sewing stuffs. So ran out of tan thread. O well. Hasty repairs of holes, and RAID modded an old desert top I had stored in the attic, https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123862/IMG_0718_jpeg-3594174.JPG Doesn't look bad, keep working on it. Do a few more and they will start looking real nice. Just bite the bullet and buy an 8 oz or 16oz spool of good quality tan thread. I use 'Coyote' (color number 498) thread for most things. A&E, Coats, and Fil-Tec are all decent brands. Look for bonded nylon. You can probably get away with a good tan and a black thread. A barely use any black thread, mostly for putting on patches. A big spool like those will last you a long long time for casual sewing. You will need an industrial spool hanger stand for the spools, but those are cheap on amazon. Here ya go. Check this one out. It's T70 size thread, that's what you'd want to use for actual gear if your machine will handle that big of thread. Otherwise, look for a size T45 thread similar to that one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/126358104225 Here's an example of a black T45 size thread. https://www.ebay.com/itm/126703236617 WTF has spools of thread too, they're a little more expensive than ebay, but ebay is really hit and miss. And WTF is a good company - one of the guys posts on here in this subforum. If you don't want to look around for thread, go check out their thread. Both brands they carry are good. https://www.wtfidea.com/milspec-nylon-thread-tex-45-size-46-gov-b-a-e-berry-compliant-a-a-59826a-bonded-coyote-brown/ |
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