So-
Saturday was my first run out with my Loadout, Spat Armour and G&P Pulsie
Some notes I mentally made:
1. Never leave your armour overnight in the car in freezing temperatures: It had sheared clean off around the rivets for the shoulder sections....AARGH!. A wrap of duct tape for the day did sterling service.
2. Repairing it with epoxy resin works well enough- I will be adding a 'blob' of Milliput epoxy putty over the glued crack as 'bolstering' then painting this to look like an 'acid burn'
3. The shin armour is a pain the backside if you have slim ankles and big calves- it kept slipping down- I'm going to epoxy a small 'picture hook' inside the base of each front shin armour to make it hook onto the laces on my boots and prevent it slipping down.
4. The P90 pouches worked fine, but I'm going to replace them with some more compact MP5 pouches which happen to fit the Thompson mags too.
5. The pulsie shoots really rather high compared to wear the sights are pointed- that's fine and dandy once you get your eye in.
6. All that said- Spat's armour was comfy and usable all day in the rough and tumble of a woodland skirmish. Kudos to Messr Spat!
The only thing I need to add is a some extra padding around the top of the rear armour plate- in certain stances I did 'feel it' more than I would've liked.
7. Nothing makes a bunch of heterosexual airsofters giggle like schoolgirls than handing them working Pulse Rifle