VEAT Costume Question

I have a VEAT and was hoping to make an alternate VEAT costume in my second costume slot, but the costume pieces for SoA's are nowhere to be found when I go to the Tailors. Has it always been like that or am I overlooking something? Please Help!

It's been like that as long as I'm aware of. The only exceptions are the pre-order and vet reward helmets I think.

It's certainly an option that been requested since VEATs became available and I'd love them for my own SoA characters.

If you just want to change some costume colors around, you can do that with SG costume settings...

If you're looking to move around costume pieces, then you're out of luck.

The Wolf Spider base armor is available at the tailor, I think it is called "Padded Armor" or "Armor with Plates" or something like that. There are some minor variances in the shape of it, the plates over the legs and around the butt are slightly different (what can I say, I notice that on my female Crab ) but it's essentially the same armor.

The plate over the front of the chest, the gauntlets, and most especially the boots are NOT available, and that bugs me, especially the boots. I have posted in the Costume Request thread that I want those boots. I have been able to fake the parts with the Enforcer chest plate (the smaller one without the bottom tab) the Long Sleeve option with appropriately contrasting colored gloves, and the new Praetorian Police boots. Prior to that I believe I used the Boxing boots, a variation without the laces in front. I also use the shoulder piece called Spiked Pauldrons, I think, that sort of matches the shoulder armor on Wolf Spiders.

The Crab Armor is pretty much unreproducible. I was able to fake it by using the same armor as above, but with the colors set to the same so the detail of the pads isn't visible. The legs of the Crab Armor isn't exactly the same, but the texture is close. I then used one of the Samurai Boots, again all the same color, as it was the closest match to the Crab Boots. I don't remember which one, although it might have been Nichi. I then used one of the tech options for the gloves, I think it was one of the Robotic ones.

The main thing which seemed to really match the original costume was the shoulder guards, for which I chose the small shields with the spike, which go over the biceps. This really matched the arm guards on the Crab Armor. So it looked like it was the Crab Armor with that huge metal chest and shoulder armor removed, and the armor underneath it exposed. I just stuck the Arachnos logo on the chest just to give it continuity, but a chest symbol wouldn't have been visible under the chest armor anyway.

As I said above, I would REALLY like to see the boots for both costumes made available, along with the gloves and a better shoulder detail for the Wolf Armor. The spider detail over the shoulders and back would be nice too, although just the proper chest detail would work. It doesn't have to be EXACTLY the same, there are minor differences in the Padded Armor as I said, but it's obviously the same armor. Also, the Padded Armor only works for the Crab Armor for the variation where the pads don't "stick out", another version of the leg armor with the pads in the proper places, and raised if possible, would be nice.

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I will simply link to some pictures of my Crab Spider:

Crab Spider Armor
My version of the Crab armor without helmet and chest/shoulder armor

Wolf Spider Armor
My version of the Wolf armor without helmet

Of course, if you have the helmets, it's easy enough to just add them to the costumes as shown here. And in fact if I could take the helmet off in the main costume slot, I might have the second as the "official" uniform with helmet on.

Well I thank you all for your responses...hopefully I'll get that 51-month vet reward to unlock the helmets!