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[meiser5]

Do you remember when you opened up that shiny new Magstrike or Dart Tag, how good they shot when you tested them straight out of the box, things were good. So lets get out of that day dream and get to work, you might also remember those almost useless vests that you got with them. The only real use they had was that you could shoot them with the velcro darts and that was about it. Well now there is a little more use for them. And here is how to make them good ammo vests for your darts.


THINGS YOU WILL NEED...

- Needle and thread
- Utility straps ( Can be found on old lunchboxes you do not need anymore )
- Dart tag vest
- Camo material, ( Optional )
- Scissors
- Model Knife ( Optional )
- Marker or pen
- Tape

Know there are a couple optional things you could do here, first there is no reason you could not just use a sewing machine but I found it more accurate and easier to use the thread and needle on this so when I messed up I did not have restart the entire sewing process all over again. And if you do not use the machine right, you will shread the foam material. Secondly, you do not have to use the camo material but it made the vest look less childish. Finally the knife is also optional because you will not need it after you cut the holes for the straps.

STEPS FOR MAKING VEST...

1- Lay your material out on a good sized table.
2- Begin buy traceing the vest on your camo cloth, be sure you have enough for both sides.
3- Carefully cut out the cloth with a extra 1'' margin of error line.
4- Carefully sew the cloth onto your vest, when you are done with both sides take a break and go find twenty darts.
5- When you feel refreshed from your break come back, and with scissors or the knife carefully cut away the excess camo material and throw it out.
6- Tape the end of the utility strap to the edge of the vest on the reverse side.
7- Carefully make a loop matching the size of the dart then tape it off, do this until you have two rows of ten darts on the front of your vest and on the back of your vest.
8- Sew the straps down and THEN remove the tape.
9- Adjust your vest so it fits you.
10- Thats it, go pat yourself on the back.


I will try to get some pics uploaded but that will happen only if I can find my picture cable.


Meiser----

EDIT- Fixed Spelling and Grammar.

Edited by meiser5, 14 July 2006 - 12:42 PM.

[Uncle Hammer]

Worthless without pics, if your gonna correct other people on grammar on the boards you should spell some things right yourself. If you get pics I might have a nice comment to say. But until then, this is worthless. I also think this belongs in like Mods or general nerf.

[meiser5]

I posted here because I was not sure if it would have been real useful to anyone.


Meiser---

[SirTofu]

seeing as this is off-topic, and the main topic of this forum is nerf. Your post would not go into off topic.

[meiser5]

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This is the picture of the vest itself after the camo has been stitched on.






2-

This is the picture of me making the ammo loops.


I will try to make the image 1 smaller in a little bit but there will be a couple more images to come.



Sorry the pic is blurry.


Meiser---

Edited by meiser5, 14 July 2006 - 07:32 PM.

[ompa]

Yeah, moving it to general nerf.

~ompa