Half-Life 2 Combine Civil Protection Officer

[Dent Eastwood]

Hi there, I've wanted to do this build for sometime - thanks to Utri 's thread, I was inspired to finally attempt it once I saw he had templates for the vest which I downloaded, printed and have been working on for the past month. Comfortable now with starting a build thread to document it. Here you will see my progress from start to end.

With the templates from Utri and Hippiekid's templates, the instructions give you a solid idea on how it goes together. The process of wrapping the fabric around the eva foam shapes wasn't that bad ither, it just took sometime and patience to get done, which I mainly did on the weekends (took me around a month to get through all the pieces due to other interests and obligations.)

The fabric I chose was from HobbyLobby, and it was a LAPD looking navy blue that had a decent texture.

The jacket I'll be using is a Danish military surplus one I found that is very close to the look of the one in-game, and the pants are Spruce Green work pants by Red Kap workwear (thanks to HippieKid for the direction on the pants).

To be continued.

 

[greenmachines]

Giddy up. Nice start already!! Will be watching.

 

[Dent Eastwood]

Giddy up. Nice start already!! Will be watching.

I for sure feel that the vest is the most complex part of the build and I wanted to get it out of the way first.

For the helm, I snagged the model off etsy from CADGothenburg which will be the next big piece.

 

[Dent Eastwood]

Vest Assembled Showcase

 

[greenmachines]

Vest Assembled Showcase

xlnt

 

[Dent Eastwood]

Hey,

Secured some base soft parts plus the arm band, which I commissioned MildlyObessedStudios on etsy, who makes roller derby arm bands. She's able to do custom designs.

The coat is a black bdu button up from the brand Proper on Amazon, really like the fit and length. I'm 6'1 and got the medium Long. The coat appears to have a long fit on the in game models which is the look I was hoping to achieve.

The pants are from Red Kapp, Spruce Green.

The coat and pants will be getting the white stripe treatment in the near future. As for the helmet, that's in production at the time of this post.