M-69 Fragmentation Vest?

[billee 0]

Folks,

I've been working on a skin for the last few days based upon the 1970s British Army. This has been going comparitively well considering my almost total lack of talent. I have one final stumbling block - the flak jacket. I'm pretty certain that the UK used the same M-69 "Fragmentation Vest" as used by the US in Vietnam. I think the UK versions may have been a far darker green (possibly to blend in better with our "no sun, lots of rain" climate).

There's plenty of US reference photos online and it's featured all over my dvd collection (including Aliens!). However, I can't get it even remotely right. I've resorted to taking photos off websites and attempting to place them in my rsb but I've had no success. I was coping with this until I saw the Year of the Monkey progress shots and saw the version Hotpants had - his are great. I'm going to try again but I was wondering if anyone out there had already done this or would be willing to put me out of my misery (at least that which is caused by this problem anyway).

Here's a few reference links:

http://www.diddybop.demon.co.uk/flakvest.htm

http://members.aol.com/rtoartilleryfo/Flakj.jpg

http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~gun/bdu/m69body.htm

http://www.atroop412cav.com/tools/gear.html

http://www.tacogame.com/tacowar.bible.gear.vest.m69.htm

http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~saigon/Armor.html

http://www.nfatoys.com/tsmg/web/vietnam.htm

I also downloaded an online user guide (?) for the vest that had a couple of diagrams in it (including the side fasteners) but I've lost the link.

[Sgt.Crocodile 0]

Here, the Brazilian Marine Corp use something close to the flak vest.

This is the one i did:

[billee 0]

That would be a great start - I'd just need to touch up the collar and the front/side fastenings. Are you happy to mail me the texture? The mod'll only be for my use.

Has your mod been released? I remember seeing some of the earlier stuff but I can't recall seeing it come out.

[Sgt.Crocodile 0]

That would be a great start - I'd just need to touch up the collar and the front/side fastenings. Are you happy to mail me the texture? The mod'll only be for my use.

Humm....Klaus Henkel has that colar you want.

Send me a PM so we can talk about the textures.....its fairly easy to make it.

[billee 0]

Thanks - I think I've sorted it now. Soon after I posted that last message I saw a screenshot with Klaus in it and I suddenly realised that using him as a base would save me so much time. I took his base .chr, made his helmet transparent, added my new texture and gave him a new helmet as an attachment. I also did a version with his Jungle kit.

The only slight complaint I've got is that the lower chest and abdomen area of the chr are clearly "hardened" in some way - presumably to denote ceramic plates in KH's body armour. I was tempted to put webbing + pouches over the top to cover this but I just couldn't bring myself to cover up half of the skin I'd only just made!

Thanks again.