J.A.F. Team

How did you settle on secondary colors for the hips and primary colors for the legs, if you don't mind me asking? I'd think the reverse might make more sense, particularly since using secondary colors for the hips creates an odd discontinuity with the torsos.

It basically comes down to the stylistic differences between a Toa designs and a fig design, since the Toa use different colors for the legs and feet, whereas those are a single piece on the figs. So you'd either need a dual mold or detailed leg printing, which I'm personally not interested in.

 

My reasoning behind this is that I didn't want the legs to be in the secondary color, because that would overpower the primary color on the fig, and I want the primary color to be strongest. Additionally, the color of the hips give a divide between the legs and torso. That said, I only used that design on Tahu and Pohatu on my IRL figs, I was just using the same consistent theme in the mock up.

 

And that's also something that people could easily modify on their own; if people could agree on the "mask" and torso elements, then they'd be free to stylize the rest of the fig as they'd like. Either way, I'm not tied down to any design yet. I supposed you could print primary colored feet on secondary colored legs (and maybe add in some details to the legs to make them more technic) but that's just adding another (two?) costly printed piece(s) to the mix.