I've gotten a lot of influence from Brickshelf as metioned here:
http://warseer.com/forums/showpost.p...0&postcount=65

Appleseed and various Gundam series' have also been great influences as well as other battle suit builders where I have taken some smaller ideas from multiple different people, refined them and combined them all into a single suit to make something new.

Sometimes it's just a matter of seeing a part in a new way like the flamers used on the Broadside legs above.