Reddit reviews Country Brook Design - 1 Inch Black Polypro Webbing, 25 Yards
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1" wideApproximately .048" or 1.20mm thick600 lbs tensile strengthUV, Rot, mildew and Moisture ResistantIf you package does not have Country Brook Design's registered Trademark Packing it is not a Country Brook Design product.
I realize this may be slightly outside the bounds of "every day carry" but rest assured this backpack is always on/near me.
The things I have physically on me and basically all times are items: 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
Everything else pretty much lives in the backpack and stays on me or in my car for access at a moments notice.
Items used:
My Total: ~$150
It's hard to say how much time it took in total, but I'm guessing it took somewhere around 250 hours, maybe?
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How I did it:
For the vest and arm-guards I used these foam mats which I got at homedepot.com, but I also spotted some at my local Big Lots.
I simply drew on the shapes, using a picture of a NCR ranger as a guide, then cut them out, painted them, and bam-shazam, finished. (The vest is held together with some this stuff and hot glue and the arm-guards are held on with that same rope-like stuff and velcro.)
And for the helmet I used a pepakura template printed onto card stock which I then cut out and glued together to make the a paper frame with the basic shape of the helmet. Next I coated the helmet in fiberglass resin, twice, before applying fiberglass cloth to the inside and coating that with more resin. After that I coated the entire outside of the helmet in Bondo body filler then sanded it down. This was to get rid of the jagged edges of the paper frame. I also added the dents at this stage. Finally, I used a rotary tool to cut out the ear hole, eyes, and mouth hole.
Once that was done I could move on to painting the thing. I coated the whole thing in a flat black spray-paint, inside and out, then used an olive green spray paint on the helmet.
The mask was a bit more complicated (probably unnecessarily so). With a disposable paint brush I applied a combiniation of a granite coloured spray-paint and and some sort of shiny, silver spray paint. (It actually worked really well, but I feel like there might have been a better way of doing it.)
Once all of the mask pieces (and damaged areas of the helmet) were painted grey, I attached the filter to the side with a nut and bolt through a hole that I drilled, and added the lenses, which came from a pair of ski goggles, using hot glue. I glued screen material (like the kind you would use for a window screen) to the inside of the filer, the ear hole, and the mouth hole so I could breath and hear in the damned thing, then put a little flashlight on the inside of the flashlight casing and glued those pieces to the side of the helmet after everything else was finished.
After that was the detailing. I enlarged some decals I found online, printed and cut out some stencils, then used white spray-paint and the stencils to get the numbers.
After that was done I could start to give it some age, dirt, and grime. I lightly sanded the newly painted helmet which was a little too shiny, and the numbers a little too crisp, then carved in the tally-marks on the side. Then I watered down a black acrylic paint and rubbed that over every surface with a paper towel, which took no time at all.
We're in the home stretch here...
Lastly was the rust effect. I lightly watered down some burgundy, brown, orange, yellow, and black acrylic paints and painted those on, being sure to use as little paint as possible and focusing on areas that would rust the most i.e. edges, corners, grooves, tally-marks.
For the trench coat I used a trench coat.
For the balaclava I used a balaclava.
For the pants I used pants.
Could buy some buckles and webbing and make your own compression straps
I did the same thing and used some paracord, like mentioned by others, it stretches and is not too kind to trees. A few weeks ago I broke open the piggy bank and spent 8 bucks on some polyester webbing straps, with that I had enough to make two sets. If you have questions on how I can show with pictures and stuff tomorrow.
Tucker's hitch and 15 ft of this stuff is what I have used for the past couple of years. I like cheap and easy... http://www.amazon.com/Country-Brook-Design®-Polypro-Webbing/dp/B001QL2C26
You could whip up some of the thicker "tree huggers" for even less.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008CD1826/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?qid=1449730194&sr=8-12&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=2inch+webbing
Just tie the loops on the ends (you'll have plenty of extra material to play with). It's also really easy material to stitch together on a sewing machine if you want to make a for-reals set.
I made a very simple pattern in CAD and had it printed on 11x17 Tabloid Paper. The construction is fairly straightforward, I had two pieces of foam sandwiched in between the patterned fabric and some scrap denim I had laying around. Having the denim on the bottom layer provides some strength, as the strap doesn't go through the padding. The denim also feels very nice against the skin and will not slip around. Using some Bias Tape, I finished the edges of the pad. I used Uncle Mike's Quick Detach hardware for this. (I made another pad using Blackhawk hardware and those are a much lower build quality.)
As far as a 3 point sling, they seem like they would be pretty easy to make if you had the right hardware. I found it difficult to find information on the internet about how to create different loops with the webbing. Buying one of these will give you enough webbing to make just about all the straps and slings you would need.
My go to for attaching pieces is nylon webbing , when you don't need the authentic look. It's relatively cheap on Amazon and tough as hell, I keep my steel legs up with a nylon harness.
You could sew it into existing pieces, and attach it with tough plastic buckles.
I used something similar to the following: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001QL2C26/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501376949&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=poly+webbing&dpPl=1&dpID=51Bau1rCvGL&ref=plSrch
Just search for poly webbing or something similar.
I just bought the same 1 inch webbing from Amazon, 25 yards for less than 8 bucks. You don't even need to stitch anything, just cut two yards worth of webbing and just do a figure 8 on a bight knot at the end of each. Bonus: you still got an extra 21 yards to play with.