Most kits will provide you with a two-piece chest armor: back and front plates, which attach together by the shoulder straps and the underarm sides.
Heat-shape them to fit around your ribcage. You don't want your armor to look like it wasn't made for you.
Assembly requires velcro and elastic webbing. Adjust the elastic length to your chest depth, keep in mind that you'll be wearing clothing (flightsuit, cummerbund) underneath. Also leave some room for moving around but not too much.
The back pack of "tank" is assembled with a rivet in the SC kit. But for maximum accuracy you should glue it on to the back plate as there is no rivet on the ABS in the screen costumes.
This is how the tank topper should be painted. You can use decorative decals from auto parts shops for a better result. You can see here that I also painted the rivet in white.
More velcro work to connect the shoulder plates or "bells" to the shoulder straps. The black velcro combo is called a "T-strap". I used a curbed needle to sew the white elastic part to the first piece of velcro, and then sewed the second part of velcro to the white elastic.
They rectangle on the lower left corner is acceptable in black, or gray/off-gray for Lancer status. I used a simple piece of gray duct tape.
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