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Power Ranger Concept 03 — Description
So it's been a looooooooooong time in development, but it's still not done. This is the third concept for my Power Rangers idea. Here is the top half of the powered armor. And it's sketched on my iPad in Sketchbook Pro.

The obvious inspiration for this is Halo and a teensy bit of Iron Man (thought I only saw it after I drew it - hah). When the first images of the new Halo Reach live action trailer (Deliver Hope) popped up on the internet, I knew I wanted to take this idea in that direction as far as costume design goes. In the Deliver Hope trailer, Kat's suit is definitely Spartan, but it's somewhat slim fit, and with all the detailing in the inner panels and parts toward the neck and arm opens, I was inspired to apply that same idea to my Power Rangers concept. I knew that's the direction I wanted to take the powered armor anyways, but I needed one last bit of direction for actually implementing the idea.

So the powered armor is based on the Green Ranger from the first Power Rangers. However, this is how all the powered armor will look in my Power Rangers concept. They all have the "shield," here implemented as shoulder pads. This armor is worn over the standard Ranger gear from the previous concepts.

Now keep in mind, not all the Rangers in my concept wear the powered armor. The more I think through the idea, the more components I'm drawing from Halo. So you can think that the Rangers in power armor serve as the Spartan role for the story, but they're not as exclusive of a group. Keeping with the military theme, the powered armor Rangers are a whole division, but there are far more standard Rangers. So you might have 5-10 powered suits to a platoon, maybe one or two to a squad. Of course, in the heat of battle, you might see whole groups of powered suits fighting against the more powerful of Zed's forces while the regulars fight Zed's grunts. But I haven't developed the idea that far yet.

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