Did you hear that? That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor. Incredible detail. You, my friend, are a true perfectionist. I can't wait for your next post.
This is now my new favorite thread. Besides the fact that you have some really righteous skills and very awesome ideas, I also just noticed that you started this thread on my birthday...Really Cool
Sorry to hear about the break up. Glad to see you're going to finish the project on your own. Keep up the awesome work. I can't wait to see you're armor when it is completed.
There is some promising tech coming soon to help with this dilemma. Check out what the Russians are doing.
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2013-06/motorcycle-helmet-heads-display
A little smash-up of the tech, somebody develop a cool little app to run the whole interface and voila.