I just ran across this project yesterday, sitting in my "to do" folder, along with a few other projects I've been meaning to finish. :) I'll grab your reference pics and see what I can do. I'm terrible with finishing such ad hoc projects, sorry. I get work pushed behind, then start working on something else, completely forgetting everything else I was supposed to do.

PS - I had already found some of those pics and incorporated some of their ideas into what I was doing, IIRC. The intent was to have a conforming harness and padding, perhaps even a few pieces of chain and chainmail, rigged in, then smartpropped armor, designed to move well with the harness rig. Some extra morphs for fitting the plates to a bulkier/skinnier dog would be fairly easy.

If I get the mesh finished for the base LE dog and you like it, all you have to do is transfer the morphs over to it using MorCloth (sold here). That's all I would do, anyway, but maybe a few little tweaks if it didn't work out well. We'll see how it goes. I have a little time coming up, so might be able to tinker with it in the next few days. Bookmarked thread, will reply here when done. (Note: It will not be within the next 7 days, I wouldn't think. I've got stuff backed up all over the place and won't even be able to be online to upload it even if I had finished it during that time, sorry. I'll be "dark" for all that time. :( )