if you can afford to buy one, a muscle suit (i think they are sold by a place called flex designs, but just type muscle suit in the search and the company will be nerar the top) would be ideal for something like this, i have been kicking around an idea about buying one and covering it in a sub-dyed cloth made to look like the suit (unless you wanna go in max armor mode, then you would have to model each little hexagon /shudder) but a muscle suit in whatever size armor you wanted to make would probably be your fastest, safest bet, but also probably your most expensive depending on what your level of foam modelling or sculpting is, you'll also have to find out if anyone even has a sub-dye pattern, or if they would be willing to try to make one (which im sure can be achieved) the difficulty i see in usingthis method, other than cost, is making the armor parts for the suit, you could model them out of foam or actually cut,sand,shape sintra (flat pvc) into the shapes and glue/sew them in place. hope this info helps, at least a little bit
