Here's a better armored smilodon pic. I started this at work (Fridays are pretty slow). and got most of the sketching done there. This is part of the 'Empire of the clans' mythos I've been mulling over since writing 'Blackfur's legacy'. (Blackfur being a sabretooth and the founder of said empire). Anyway, it's a smilodon in rhino hide armor with bronze strip reenforcement -- at this point in the Empire's history the techniques of armor making did not allow full suits of metal armor, and rhino hide is plenty tough all by itself.