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retrogarde
 Post subject: USCM armour for my 8 year old
PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:20 pm 
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My youngest son expressed interest in being a Colonial Marine for Halloween, so I jumped at the chance to make some mini armour.

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This is all made from plastic flower pots (thanks to BigbisonT for the tip and the inspiration as he totally did it first) and some webbing from a frame backpack.

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I'd made my older son an Alien costume a few years back so it was fun to do another pint-sized costume!

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Those are both totally awesome! You wouldn't happen to document the whole build somewhere step by step?

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Some shots of my mini-Marine today. This was a great test drive for the armour, but next time hopefully we can find a better match for camo trousers and do the shin guards. He wants to add some graffiti so we'll do that too.

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Here is his flame unit as well!

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As for instructions, I just drew out the shapes based on my own armour but scaled down. It took some trimming, but the end result worked out. I'd say I paid leas than twenty for the flower pots, but almost as much in webbing clips. Those things are pricey!

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awesome to the max!
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That is fantastic, parenting done right!!! :D
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Thanks guys!

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How wide would an ab pad need to be?
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I could measure!

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I could hook one up for ya, gotta make a couple regular ones. could just do a basic one without the whole double stiching and stuff.
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That's great! Let's PM.

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I would like to try and make one for my 9 yr old, what kind of flower pots did you use?

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love it!! I made my son armor and weapons when he was 8 too. He is now 26 and is still loving his armor. He treasures it.
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Thanks Stephen210! I remember seeing images of yours and it was absolutely epic. What a treasure!

Sgt of Marines: let me see if I have a label to help identify them. They were flower pots at Lowes in the U.S. and they had a range of sizes all in a really great base green color. I believe Bigbisont had good luck with Lowes for his mini-armour as well, but with more rigid pots than I could find.

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Awesome, that would be great....thank you

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