or as some know him: "that cool looking dude on the front cover of the new vegas game"pretty fond of the design of this guy, so i decided to try my hand at making the best i can for him.was eager to try out foam armor techniques i see popping around, and wanted to see what different thickness foam will do when combined..I've now finished the armor, over a month after i started this project, and it worked out nicely.for those who want a spoiler, heres a shot of the finished work, more pics are on page 8.(special thanks to Ed209 for the awesome photoshop edit above)so i started with the armored riot vest first.i drew a paper plan by hand, eye'ballin' it and then copied a symetrical version of it to card stock till i was satisfied,after that i cut the shapes in foam.and rounded the edgesstarted to form them into good shapes with some heat.and then glued them down, as well as using some elastic strapping to make a "rig" for the vest to be wearable.the black duster is a place holder till i make the proper coat, but it's to give an impression of how the coat will hang on the armor.a little dorky right now, but i think it's ready for some battle damage, weathering and some stencil paints.all and all, i'm pretty happy with how this was this weekend's work.and a rainy weekend at that! which usually sucks the creativity right out of me.on a side note, i changed the pattern, the shapes i cut were a little uncomfortable, so i ended up making something closer to this.i made these changes as i was gluing the pieces together, realized i did not need the psudo shoulder guards, and they just got in the way, and you need a lot more armpit hole than i first expected