Shoulder Bell Attaching to Armor Help, Please

[senna1rossi[TK]]

i need some help, please. i'm still unsure of how the shoulder bells attach to the chest / back armor. still use 1.5" wide black elastic, or could i use wider width? does the shoulder bells just sit on your shoulders? no insulation foam on the inside, correct? should there be any gap between bells to armor?

 

does anyone have good thread link with detailed pics?

 

Thanks!

[TrooperVenger]

Well you can either have a 'T' shape piece and attach it that way or you could have a piece of elastic that goes fom one side, over your neck and to the other.

[bobojuice]

My gf's and my shoulders are done via thick elastic connecting both shoulders that goes over the back behind the neck.

 

 

Thanks to missingpieces for the image above.

[Hedjii72]

Is that elastic snapped to the suspenders, or independent of them?

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

I use a leather strap.

 

I also use webbing instead of elastic for the shoulder bridges.

 

this keeps the chest and back solid at the top, with the shoulders not moving.

 

this hides the strapping and snaps completely. if you use elastic then the shoulders move around and your chest and back flex weird when you move.

 

I like to keep the shoulder bells attached to the biceps which causes the shoulder bell to stay rotated forward keeping the shoulders in place.

 

nothing worse looking than a trooper with flared shoulder bells.

[bobojuice]

Is that elastic snapped to the suspenders, or independent of them?

 

Nope. Just goes over your shoulders/back.

[Griffin-X[TK]]

Thanks for the tips guys.

[Locitus[Admin]]

Chest

| |

|o|===Shoulder bell

| |

Back

 

o means snap

= and || means elastic

Edited December 9, 2011 by Locitus