aliens colonial marine armour

[geoffreym]

I've always loved colonial marines from the film aliens and have even got the G&P m41a pulse rifle, but the body armor is almost impossible to find at a low price, the cheapest ive found is from america at £600 + shipping and vat and I cant justify that sort of outlay, so i thought are there any body armors out which have similar charecteristics to USCM armour (shoulder plates and abs plate) preferably in OD so i can paint it in similar colours. possibly a version of EOD armor or something similar, I remember seeing osprey with shoulder pads, Ive already figured out how to do the helmet, American m88 (the one with the skirts) helmet with a basket bolted onto the side for camera and torch.

Any and all ideas will be used, and will post up finished loadout, planning to call it UKCM.

Thanks

Geoff

 

[bigshep]

http://www.taiwangun.com/tactical_equipmen...a_c_m-1997.html

That sort of thing? Should be about £70-80 shipped to the UK.

 

[geoffreym]

Yep, along those lines, but with more integrated shoulder pads and a pronounced chest.

 

[geoffreym]

http://www.terryenglisharmourer.co.uk/?s=a...p;submit=Search

I looked up this guy because he did the armour for the actual films and asked for a quote (i knew it was gonna be expensive) the entire set, painted and fixed together would cost £2800, he did say though that if 10 or more sets were ordered he'd do a discount.

so, anybody got £2500 in their back pockets.

 

[Matt!]

holy! suppose if your a director you have millions to chuck away on props.