09-02-2015, 01:04 PM
They have a lot of exposed body parts for a soldier whose main function is full-on armed conflict with the goal of kill or be killed. They look more like security guards in a civilian setting at the moment. Your focus is design, so method are less of an issue than number of different designs you can come up with, and how well your design convey your purpose (war, soldier). Also, find the heaviest object/tool in your apartment/house and pick it up in your hands and do some poses with it. Even a long sword is very heavy, and anyone trying to lift and swing a halberd like that will hurt their back muscles and be put on unpaid vacation for months. Not a good news for that soldier's hungry family....