This thread has the same topic pretty much and isnt that old-------------------------->http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1084397-do-you-want-your-armor-to-be-as-customizable-as-your-guns-will-be/
This isn't about the same thing though. That topic is about customizing your armor as you do your guns in the game.
This is about creating armor at workbenches out of different components, the same way you made the dart gun, rock it launcher, railway rifle, deathclaw gauntlet, and others in Fallout 3.
I think it would be cool to find some wastelander's schematics for armor, and then gather different parts, like maybe you need tires and a leather armor and some other pieces to make something that's kind of like the Blast master armor, as an example.
Or perhaps pieces of robots to form some sort of metal armor.
Though I do support being able to mod your own armor too.