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Comments from Robin Yang: Colonial Marine armor was always a favorite of mine. Besides the coolness factor it looked functional. Too bad the marines in the movie had such poor weapon control--ever notice how they tended to spray fire when dying and how that usually caused even more problems for the survivors? But I digress. The original armor was made by Terry English, a renowned medieval armorer from England. His design is surprisingly comfortable with shoulder scoops and enlarged belly section. The basic design fits a range of sizes from a 5'6", 135 pound person to 6'2", 210 pounds without major alterations. It offers a good range of movement but after several hours it starts to press painfully down on the shoulders and gets rather sweaty. It's still better than most of the costumes we've made though.