What about an Ishukone Assault Suit. 477 EHP 203,415 isk which would obviously be more affordable with LP.

Ishukone RR
Ishukone SMG
Complex Shield Extender
Complex Shield Recharger (x2)
Complex Shield Energizer
Complex Cpu Upgrade
Complez Shield Regulator (x2)
Locus Grenade

With maxed skills it has 327 shields, 150 armor, 95.65/s shield recharge rate with 2.76 sec delay, and 5.49 depleted delay. I think that with this suit if you have cover or distance between your target it would be pretty challenging to kill you. I run a basic Gallenete medic with a exile rifle it's very similar in terms of HP/SD but reversed. With 148 Hp for shield and 332 HP for armor I do alright and I only have my dropsuit skills to level 3 for armor and 2 for shields.

Skill wise though I have 20/s shield recharge with a 7 sec delay and 10.3 sec depleted.

Duvolle Assualt Suit 141 shield 411 armor 552 EHP 213,390 isk

Duvolle Tactical AR
Carthum Assault Scrambler Pistol
Complex Light Damage Mod
Complex Shield Recharger
Complex Shield Energizer
Complex Armor Plate
Complex CPU Upgrade
Complex Armor Repair (x2)
Duvolle Quantum Active Scanner

So this suit would have a 59.99/s shield recharge rate, but it still has the 7 sec delay with a 10 sec depleted delay and finally a 12.5 HP armor repair rate.

I think the both suit are even at a distance but with cover you could put some pressure on the Gallente and force him to back up or searching for cover. The Gallente wants his shield back so his armor can repair uninhibited unfortunately for him that's going to take 7 seconds. If you chase him down he has no choice but to abandon his shields and if you get in range because for some odd reason you haven't killed him with a rail rifle you can switch to your Ishukone SMG and annihilate the Gallente. It's not completely in your favor if he's good with the Tac Ar and you have no cover chasing him/her could get you killed.

Why shield tank a Minmatar assault against a Gallente assault when you could have a Min Assault with

Six Kin Assault Combat rifle
Six Kin SMG
Complex Precision Enhancer (x3)
Complex Light Damage Mod (x2)
Complex Armor Plate
Complex Reactive Plate
Flux Grenade
Triage Repair tool

570 EHP 187 Shield 383 Armor 28.98 db scan precision 15 meter radius armor rep rate of 3 but with that scan precision you should be able to avoid people.

How so its 570 EHP and it rips armor? You could swap it to 2 complex plates its 653 EHP but no reps you also sacrifice movement speed which would make you less effective in cqc. It also lets you swap a boundless MD and Core Flaylock Pistol no scanner needed Flux and let it rip. I think you should use every slot you possibly can, you can also swap one enhancer for a shield extender 690 Ehp still no reps and you shield delay takes a hit and you have no reps.

Furthermore, any suit that comes near you they will light up like a Christmas tree and whether you get scanned doesn't even matter. You have mid ranged weapons too anyone who gets close to you flux nade them then drop all their armor.

sorry but you also cant fit 2 plates and a rep on a min assault i didn't catch you on that earlier.

5 high 2 low

you cant fit the complex rep with the complex armor plate with 4 complex extenders and a complex damage mod with the six kin combat rifle and smg 462/420 cpu and 89/84 pg