Elite Colourway Load Out Progress - Skirmish Belt and a lot of pouches!

 With uni finishing, I've gotten a better work/life balance and more time for hobby things. I've been spreading my personal project stuff between sewing shop orders. While that does mean more sewing thread changes for the orange and white thread on my project, it does break the monotony of sewing black all the time. The shop has basically paid for all the materials for this project at this point and is going a good long way to securing the blasters that I'm going to eventually pair with this lot, soon, too.

Skirmish Belt

First, the Skirmish Belt. With the friction fit Talon holder positioned so that my knee doesn't occlude it when kneeling, it sits next to my zip dump pouch. You can see why I don't do the zip pouches as a line item in the photo as they're an arse to get to sit square and the corners are always inconsistently shaped. However, this will do the job. I'll add a nice little bit of white shock cord to the zip to bring out the theme colours.

 

Just a few demo shots of the skirmish belt set up. You can see some of the threads where I had to take it down to replace the internal hook tape on the padded spacer mesh panel. The idea is that loop tape is going to be sewn to my duty belt and then the skirmish belt will only have to attach to that and the front two loops of my trousers to remain in place under load. We shall see. The belt itself is my old Viper belt, holding everything together for the moment. I might invest in a new one or even see if I can find amore appropriate colour match.

 

This is a better shot of the friction fit mag holder. It's probably the first time I've said that a friction pouch is safely rated to be used in the inverted position. Sadly, getting colour matched flat elastic remains very tricky in the UK and the options were either white or black. I opted for black since white would have dommiated the panel if it went out to the full 100mm. Between the grey tabs and the black, I think it breaks it up nicely. Then the edging tape offers a solid Elite style tie in.

Magazine Pouches:

Now for pouches. Lots and lots of pouches.

There's not much new here. There are 2 Talon hex stacks (2 wide, 3 deep) and 1 high capacity Talon pouch with 12 mags in. They're presented on an olive green vest while I wait for the black tactical vest I've ordered to arrive.

Not pictured is the prototype 40MAX shell holder that's sitting under the arm bit here. It occured to me that I'm going to need some sort of administration pouch with a Velcro loop tape fronting to hold my mag flaps open during use. I'll have a think on what I need out of that pouch. It'll likely just be a slot panel for my SD card holder, maybe a slot for some snap grenades or similar. Nothing too bulky since it'll be right up under my chin and no-one wants a snap grenade to the face.