Half Life 2, Combine Police Costume Problems

[alx0298]

Combine Police (aka: metro police, aka: civil protection) uniform from hald life 2, it has a symbol on the armband I cant make out, and I don't know what it would possibly be. Please help me.

Also I think it says c17:14 but online somewhere I found it said c17:i4

Does anyone know for sure what these are supposed to be?

thank you in advance! I'm spending a lot of time and money on this build, I really want this to be accurate.

 

[Rubber Slug]

Combine Police (aka: metro police, aka: civil protection) uniform from hald life 2, it has a symbol on the armband I cant make out, and I don't know what it would possibly be. Please help me.

Also I think it says c17:14 but online somewhere I found it said c17:i4

Does anyone know for sure what these are supposed to be?

thank you in advance! I'm spending a lot of time and money on this build, I really want this to be accurate.

I believe the Barney skin is just as low-res as the regular CP. I'm also 90% sure the "clean" image from the wiki is accurate, it's just that it's printed on a really rough cloth in the game. I checked my own reference images, and it's so low-res that you can probably take some artistic liberties with it and still be "canon," however, as I said, I think that image you posted is accurate.

edit: regarding the "i" vs "1" question, I think it is an "i" because if you compare it to the "1" in "17," they look different.

edit2: if you have any pictures of your build so far, I'd love to see them!

 

[msleeper]

It is most certainly "c17:i4o" with a red "o". It was more clearly shown in other parts of their uniform from early progress in the game. You can see some early versions with this patch in Raising The Bar, and in the 2003 leak files. The "i4o" was supposed to be some sort of secondary zone within City 17.

EDIT
And yeah, aside from the head, the Barney model and materials are identical to the standard Metrocop ones.

 

[alx0298]

Thanks for the responses! I don't have much of the build worth presenting yet but here's a cool picture anyway! I got the actual model file from the steam compressed file into auto cad! Others have done if before me, but it was a challenge. I've been working off that autocad file building the mask to correct proportions. I saw one build where someone used the exact dimensions matching all the polygons and everything and it just looked weird. I think for mine I'm going to curve it to match how it looks with the shaders in the game.

I think the i4 is correct. I will accept the fact it is a circle I suppose, I'll just weather mine on the right side so it looks like a lighter red on the model.. and blacken the middle.. details

Yeah I think metro police and barney model are same res. I was just being optimistic I think

So thanks again, Ill post my build here as it progresses!

Eidt: Found that build of the maske with exact dimentions: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/219/combine2r.jpg/sr=1

 

[alx0298]

Didn't attach I guess..

 

[Rubber Slug]

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That's basically what I did, too (only I modified the helmet to be a tiny bit wider, which might have been unnecesssary in hindsight). I assume you're doing pepakura?