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Here is my take on Captain America, what with the movie coming out and all and me being generally unimpressed with the character design I decided to have a go myself.
So here he is in all his glory, now before people start berating me for hiding his face please let me explain the thinking behind all of this.

First off, Captain America is a super expensive morale engine aswell as an effective battlefield asset, so he needs to be a number of things - he must be visible to act as a rallying point and so soldiers can benefit from the morale increase they would enjoy from his presence on the field, unfortunately this also makes him a target, so he needs to be armoured - here he is wearing experimental plate body armour (that was actually developed during WW2 but deemed too heavy for ordinary soldiers - not a problem for a super-soldier though). This is also a good reason to give him a shield, and this point will also bring me onto the matter of the mask.

The mask is designed to make him anonymous so that in the unlikely event he could be brought down in the field, (and he could, or else why would you bother with a shield) he could be replaced, even by an ordinary soldier on a temporary basis, in order to maintain the morale of the general troops. So the gasmask is only really an aesthetic thing, but could also be used as a dosing method to administer combat drugs to boost his performance on the battlefield.

I have also forgone the 'A' on the helmet - this makes no sense at all in terms of military insignia - the 'railway tracks' are the WW2 accurate Captain's insignia and so they have much more of a place in this design as my intent was to ground him in as much technical reality as possible.

His shield is also destructible, the edges are the thinnest part of the shield and as such such are susceptible to heavy fire, while the centre would be the thickest steel and as such can withstand small-arms fire.

I've armed him with a combo of aColt .45 and a Thomson 'Trench-Broom' with a modified fore-grip so it can be rested on the rim of the shield for blind-firing or shooting on the run. He's also got a WW2 Army Machete for close quarters, and you'll notice the 'Tommy' magazines are duct-taped together for slick reloading (duct-tape was invented in 1942 to seal ammo cases).

Sorry for the endless rant - hope you like the piece and I haven't offended too many hardcore fans, but if you're gonna build a Nazi-killing badass, then he should look like one, not some dude in a blue jump-suit with wings on his head.

Description
Here is my take on Captain America, what with the movie coming out and all and me being generally unimpressed with the character design I decided to have a go myself.
So here he is in all his glory, now before people start berating me for hiding his face please let me explain the thinking behind all of this.

First off, Captain America is a super expensive morale engine aswell as an effective battlefield asset, so he needs to be a number of things - he must be visible to act as a rallying point and so soldiers can benefit from the morale increase they would enjoy from his presence on the field, unfortunately this also makes him a target, so he needs to be armoured - here he is wearing experimental plate body armour (that was actually developed during WW2 but deemed too heavy for ordinary soldiers - not a problem for a super-soldier though). This is also a good reason to give him a shield, and this point will also bring me onto the matter of the mask.

The mask is designed to make him anonymous so that in the unlikely event he could be brought down in the field, (and he could, or else why would you bother with a shield) he could be replaced, even by an ordinary soldier on a temporary basis, in order to maintain the morale of the general troops. So the gasmask is only really an aesthetic thing, but could also be used as a dosing method to administer combat drugs to boost his performance on the battlefield.

I have also forgone the 'A' on the helmet - this makes no sense at all in terms of military insignia - the 'railway tracks' are the WW2 accurate Captain's insignia and so they have much more of a place in this design as my intent was to ground him in as much technical reality as possible.

His shield is also destructible, the edges are the thinnest part of the shield and as such such are susceptible to heavy fire, while the centre would be the thickest steel and as such can withstand small-arms fire.

I've armed him with a combo of aColt .45 and a Thomson 'Trench-Broom' with a modified fore-grip so it can be rested on the rim of the shield for blind-firing or shooting on the run. He's also got a WW2 Army Machete for close quarters, and you'll notice the 'Tommy' magazines are duct-taped together for slick reloading (duct-tape was invented in 1942 to seal ammo cases).

Sorry for the endless rant - hope you like the piece and I haven't offended too many hardcore fans, but if you're gonna build a Nazi-killing badass, then he should look like one, not some dude in a blue jump-suit with wings on his head.