Updated pics and notes, crossposted from by BOB thead:
viewtopic.php?t=21755These pics show my efforts at resolving a recurring problem I've been having, which is getting the various components of my gear to work well together. This includes Individual Body Armor, Load Bearing Equipment, and my Bug Out Bag. These work well separately but wearing them at the same time causes an exponential multiplication of discomfort and difficulty. Nevertheless, I've gotten it to more or less work, so I thought I'd share:
From the front, you can see that it more or less fits. Note, however, the shoulder area: the BOB straps on top of the LBE straps on top of the body armor requires a lot of fitting and adjusting to get them just right. There's a crapload of layers of padding on my shoulders right there. (Note: I've been thinking about adding a Tactical Tailor MAV to all this, with an X Harness no less, but thinking about that layering effect, I may want to do without the padding of the X harness at the very least!)
From the side, you can see one of the problems: I've got six 3x30 USGI mag pouches, plus two canteens, and a butt pack. I can do this since I'm large and am wearing the LBE over armor, so I've got a lot of waist room to put pouches on. (This is something not a lot of people think about: not only do fat people pack their own food reserves, but they can fit more stuff on their belts!) However, doing this puts those canteens way far back, under the pack, so that the BOB is actually sort of resting on the canteens.
Solution (not shown): After taking and evaluating these pics, I swapped the canteens forward and the last pair of mag pouches back, so the canteens are out from my hipbones and the last pair of mag pouches are in the back, one on either side of the buttpack. This works well, and although those mag pouches aren't as accessible, this isn't a critical flaw since I've got room for 12 mags up front, anyway. I might not even use those last two for mags, I might use 'em for survival gear. I think TheLastRIfleman had a post about using a 3x30 mag pouch as a survival pouch, I might do that with these. Or buy more mags. There is some sort of obscene joy in having six times three times 30 rounds of ammo (540 rounds!) of 5.56mm ammo on my waist. Obviously I'd only lug that much weight if combat was extremely likely; otherwise it'd probably just be my Mossy and a dump pouch with a handful of buckshot shells in it.
From the back, you can see that 1) the buttpack's uneven (off to one side) and 2) there's a whole maze of spaghetti hanging off my ass. No, those aren't roundworms, that's all the excess webbing from all the straps on the Zulu, the E&E, the buttpack, etc. I need some Web Dominators, asap!
Closeup of the buttpack. The buttpack represents one of the major problems I'm having with this setup. It's uneven, here, just because it's empty and gets pushed aside when I don the BOB; I'm not that worried about that. But, the real problems were, mainly: 1) the meathooks dig into my flesh when pressed down by the weight of the BOB on them, and 2) the buttpack is pressed down into my butt by the bottom of the BOB, which might be uncomfortable after a long hike.
Issue 1 has been solved by cutting the meathooks off the suspenders with a pair of bolt cutters and replacing them with zipties. Seems to work well.
Issue 2 will be evaluated by another test hike, this time with both LBE and BOB (but not IBA!). I may have to do without a buttpack with this rig, especially if I put my sleeping bag in the POD on the bottom of the Zulu BOB. Further updates will be posted as I experiment more.
From this side you can see my old spray paint camo job on my LBE. It's better, IMHO, than the shiny OD nylon, but it's a bit orderly, i.e. looks like a pattern (stripes) and therefore might draw the eye. I've redone my paint job to better match the MultiCam, look less contrasty and less like a pattern. I took pics as a how-to and will post them shortly.
You can see here how the Liter Plus pouch sort of pushes the canteen out on this side. I had to move the Liter Plus as high on the PALS webbing as it would go to get it to fit at all. Since taking this pic, I moved the canteens forward and the last ammo pouch back, so now they don't conflict as bad. The canteen is just forward of the Liter Plus pouch now, doesn't get pressed down by the BOB, and it all fits together pretty well now.
Closeup of the above problem. Will post pics of my solution when I'm able; I need Steph to take more pics of me. Possibly tomorrow AM.
The other side. On this side you can see how the canteen is pressed down by the BOB. Again, this has now been solved by swapping the canteen with the last mag pouch.
In the very last pic, you can see how I've plugged the grommet holes in the bottom of my E&E pack: rubber grommets pressed into the holes, then sealed and expanded by threading nylon nuts through the holes in the middle of the rubber grommets. Should seal out water, sand, etc.
Summary of Lessons Learned:
Since taking these pics, I moved the canteens forward, the last pair of mag pouches back, redid the camo job on the LBE, and cut the meat hooks off and replaced them with zipties.
I still plan on replacing the IBA woodland cover with a BCS-I in MultiCam, and adding a Tactical Tailor MAV on top of it. I was considering a 1 piece with X harness and bib, like Grifter's but MultiCam; however the bulk of all the straps on my shoulders has be reconsidering the X harness, especially when I'm wearing it over armor.
I don't know if the MAV would replace or supplement the LBE, but in the latter case, I would be carrying a truly obscene number of magazines. More an exercise in overkill than a practical solution to any real problem I expect: If I can't solve a problem with 540 rounds of 5.56mm, I REALLY shouldn't have gotten myself into it in the first place! But the idea of wearing an entire case of ammo does have a perverse appeal to me.
You have some expensive really good gear, but your using it wrong. For starters ditch the LBE, you have the vest- level 3a, If you "might" go through firing 1 shot in anger the vest is must have.
So put 3 mags on the vest, get rid of the butt pack, you have to remove the gear to use the butt pack, right now if you remove your LBE you have no ammo on you. Keep the belt, but put 1 mag pouch on it, just in case you take the vest off you will still have ammo.
1 canteen on the belt will do just fine, you can't get to the rest without seriously focusing on "just that" anyways, not a problem but if someone might be taking aim at you, which I assume the reason for the cammo and kevlar- the your focus shouldn't be on a canteen you can barely reach.
Use the webbing on the vest, ditch the LBE stay with pistol belt, for say pistol? or BFK, and a drop leg.
You don't want anything in between you and the ruck, or the ruck and the ground, that ruck will hang up on the LBE if you go to drop it, and you will then have a ball and chain.
), MRE spoon, 1 cup stainless cooking pot, MSR water filter setup and a baggie with waterproof matches, hand sanitizer, extra AAA batteries and cotton balls smeared with vaseline (AWESOME tinder btw). 
. This amount of food gives me a little more than 2000 calories a day. Also have drink flavoring (crystal light rehydration mix, folgers instant coffe, green tea bags) and 7 MRE heaters. The heaters help make MRE's a little more palatable and don't weight much.
