Yes IS the same, but dont worry about this, the models represents the more near description, but really you can take a model with leather amor and this model gear cloth, hard leather or kevlar suit on rules while you pay the cost and the model can gear this amor option, no problem about that...
For example a metal armour can be only shoulders , bracers and leg plates, but after the model hace his chest naked with a lot of tattoos... Or the same model wear no armor or hardened clothes anthis pieces of armour been only cosmetic.... Think on the coolness of the mini first, and later think about rules, this dont be the dark age of Games workshop hard ass, IS punka my friend!
Remenber that... Your adversary can made a question about your gear on each time which he want, and you must answer him... The only secrets that you can keep IS the number of bullets and Who gear them, and your infiltration models