Its not pretty but the quickest way to pull the pin, was to have no pin 
Ha, just donāt jump around too much
Donāt have to worry about that in blasters. Sure as shit do for real ones but we not doing them so all good.
Nade out 
True story a cop pre hanged his flashbang to get some crooks jumped the fence got caught and went off and took three of his fingers out. Gone. Went off in his hand. I was the first aider responce officer. Bit of a mess.
Just trying to make sure you guys donāt do same because itās a kid friendly sport. Iām sure you wonāt itās all good 
Game day was an absolute blastā¦little grenade humour thereā¦
The quick deployability (word?) of this setup is exactly what I was chasing, youāre able to reach down with your right hand and flick the grenade out within a second, other players were second guessing me because of how fast it went out.
One one occasion, myself and an opponent rounded the corners of a building at the same time, after a quick exchange of fire we both retreated around our respective corners. The other player had been hit but by the time his hit registered and heād put his hand up to call it, he also had a deployed grenade at his feet, so he was both shot and naded. Thatās just how quickly it happened. Iāll aim to take a short video one evening to demonstrate.
In terms of ergonomics I tried the grenade horizontal on my belt but it was a little too obtrusive, so vertical it stayed all day, and I think thatās the way to go with it. It came with two belt mount mechanisms, one was a clamp secured by a screw, and the other a belt loop. My preference was the belt loop as you were able to loosen the belt, give it some slack and adjust it on the belt fairly easily.
Now you might be wondering if it fell out of the holster at any point, without the pin, killing the userā¦ indeed it did Running between cover caused it to pop out a couple of times and there were maybe two occasions where I would brush up against something in the heat of battle causing it to fall out. Fortunately it didnāt go off on those occasions.
Couple of suggested improvements if DC is happy to consider a version 2?
Making the belt loop and the carrier body one single piece would be great if possible. Maybe even adding a slight curvature to the back of the carrier?
The slots that the belt loop fed through could possibly use another 1mm of clearance, and might benefit from being solid instead of having the small gap? Iāll show a picture below of the warping of the belt loop after play.
I was thinking that the circular plate that the grenade sits on might benefit from being a bowl shape, rather than flat so that the grenade can sort of sit in the bowl.
For further retainability and to help avoid getting knocked out from the side, another set of one of two ribs around the middle of the grenade body may help.
Understand thatās allot of improvements so all good with whatever can or cant be done.
Big shout out to DC for making this happen, it really was allot of fun and added another element to the gameplay. In addition it was a good talking point on the day.
Thanks for reading 
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Thanks for the thorough feedback, all very detailed and well described. I can certainly make most if not all of those changes without issue for a v2
Do you mean like the backbone part where the screw is to have a curve? So it like hugs the shape of the nade sorta thing?
If youāre happy with the unit being vertical than making the belt and holder one piece is no trouble and closing that belt loop is easy enough too.
Will have another tinker with the design when I can.
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Good feedback and great read
"Now you might be wondering if it fell out of the holster at any point, without the pin, killing the userā¦ indeed it did "
That was definitely funny. Canāt say I didnāt warn you
The double tap is hilarious 
Hey no problem, least I can do for all the work you put into the design and print.
For the curvature, I was thinking the belt buckle part, so that it slightly contours with the way a belt would go around the waist. Just a gentle curve, perhaps like this?
For the belt loop, maybe .5mm additional tolerance for the belt to pass through would be great.
Happy to paint it black again if you want to use up some other filament
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Aint got no time for that 
We only go around once
Thanks @Maiphut, plenty of fun had in the making of that review. Old mate with the double tap couldnāt believe itā¦ āIām hit Iām hit!!ā 
Had an idea last night to put the spoon back on the Grenade so at least it looks cool again.
Thinking of glueing a small magnet to the inside of the spoon, and glueing a small piece of metal to the grenade body. That way the spoon should stay down when Iām running about but will open upon impact.
Now where did I leave that epoxyā¦
Small Rare Earth Magnets are available online cheap and by the bucket load.
Will definitely hold things in place without ruining the look of any of the parts. 
The hardest part is separating the little bastards out of the packaging!
A magnet glued to the pouch and one to the nade itself would be plenty strong enough to hold them both together in itself!
The Sausage Factory sells small neodinium magnets too.
I could add a cavity to the holster for a magnetic then all youād need to do is either glue some metal or another magnetic to the inside of the nade body and it should hold it in.
Edit: actually I just thought of another way. Maybe either a clamp that closes around the nade held shut by a magnetic thatās hinged or maybe a fabric strap thatās held closed by a magnet 
I got plenty of little magnets to test with.
Havenāt forgotten about this, been preoccupied with other projects.
Did some work on the next version today.
-Fixed a belt loop directly to it this time and widened the slots to 4>5mm, previously 3.5mm.
-Enclosed the top ring a bit more and got rid of that slot, material was more flexible than I initially thought so wasnāt needed anyway.
-Added a higher lip/notch on the bottom ring to try and act as a levering point.
-I did add in a bit of a curved inner wall or whatever you want to call it to try and hug the shape of the nade more, donāt know if itāll affect performance in any way though.
Iāll hopefully be going to Mango Hill tomorrow for a session and Iāll test them out then, just waiting on the first test print, using a new type of PLA from Bambu Lab thatās supposed to be stronger than ABS in most ways so weāll see how that goes.
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Look forward to hearing the results of the field test
