It is awfully hard to get a picture of yourself without blocking the view when you can't see, and My Lady is still asleep so I'm getting some work done. I think I am going to lose the built-in abs and go with a set of my own design. That is Cyrax's neo-crusader chest model that I put together last night, which looks like it should fit beautifully with my initial plan with very little modification other than removing the abs and adding my own segmented ab plate. I was also initially planning on having the collar and chest as a single piece, so I may add in some "straps" to go over the shoulders also when I get around to modding the chest.
Without further ado, the pics of this morning's test fitting are
hereFor those of you playing along at home, here is the initial concept sketch and my current status, side by side:
Those are still the base straight-out-of-HALO shoulders, so they will get much closer once I get around to cutting them up and adding to them, as seen in
the mockup I posted earlier. Seeing them side by side, I think I'll also extend the "pecs" on the chest plate down another half-block, and adding in the shoulder "strap" can give me the v-neck look also. So the only real big change from concept is cutting out the under-arm bit of the chest, which would be more practically done with straps instead.
All in alll.. I'm on my way.
