Upgrading the MP44 pouches.

[montañes]

Hello mates,

Time to a new tutorial, this time, the MP44 pouches. I hope the photos taken will be good enough and show all the steps of the process.


1.- Toys City MP44 pouches as they are.

2.- With scissors, tweezers and the x-acto we dismount and clean the pouches. And this is what we get.

3.- We washed the pouches with a mix of tupertine and oil paint (raw umber). I use a medium/large flat brush.

Before.

Washed and drying.

Side by side, right one untouch.

Finished the left one, right one still untouch.

4.- Straps of the loose box, after ironing and dyed with the mix used before.

5.- Cut at the lenght needed.

6.- Straps glued in position in an styrene strip.

7.- Straps glued in place and end of the straps cut in the proper shape.

8.- Rescue from the past, Historex die and puch set will help us a lot to make the leather circles where the buttons of the straps were attached.

9.- We use pin heads to make the strap buttons.

10.- We add the waist strap to the right pouches.

11.- Button added to the cleaning tools pouch.

12. Several views of both pouches hanging in place. All the metal fittings were painted in silver. Also you can see the strap with the buckle added to the left pouches to adjust the waist strap.

hope you find this tutorial helpful, thanks for viewing.


Michigan Dawg and Dougmo, this is for you !!! (and more to come........)


Jaime.

 

[jbcat]

Great tuto Jaime.

Not my theme, but great tuto.

 

[Dougmo]

Looks real good, Jaime: a big improvement over the stock pouches.
Here's another thought: you can use golfer's lead tape for the metal tab endings to your straps. It's metal - lead - it has a great adhesive on it and it's easy to cut. I've used that tape many times-

 

[Leatherneck]

Good tutorial!

 

[Leatherneck]

Looks real good, Jaime: a big improvement over the stock pouches.
Here's another thought: you can use golfer's lead tape for the metal tab endings to your straps. It's metal - lead - it has a great adhesive on it and it's easy to cut. I've used that tape many times-

Cool tip - never new that stuff existed.

 

[rbleathers]

Your tutorial is gonna come in real handy. Very nice. I appreciate your sharing with us.

Ray

 

[baggypantsdevil]

Nicely done. I always love to see people customizing instead of just kit bashing. My only suggestion would be to do a raw umber wash on the web straps but other than that it looks terrific.
Where did you get the metal fittings on the suspenders? Thanks,

-Kevin

 

[montañes]

Hello folks,

Many thanks for your kind word, I appreciate your time and I hope the tutorial will be useful.

Hello Doug,
Great tip ! Be sure, I will try it.

Hello Kevin,
The suspenders are from Bbi, produced 6-7 years ago and still a gem.

Jaime.

 

[Sixth Vanguard]

Great tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to put it together and share with us

 

[montañes]

Thank you SV, I appreciate your comment.

Jaime.