Creepy Creeps from Below the Surface! (aka CCBS Barraki)

[TheOneVeyronian]

Hey all!

If any of you have been following my Flickr, you would have known this topic was coming from all the MOC's I've been posting there for the past few days    But anyway, I present to you the fruit of my latest MOC project, codename CCBS, or Creepy Creeps from Below the Surface. Or basically, the Barraki but remade in CCBS (pause for inevitable groans).

The Barraki have always been my favourite of all the Gen 1 villains, it's no secret. And Takadox will forever remain my favourite G1 character. So I thought it was high time I gave them a complete CCBS overhaul to celebrate that fact. It pretty much started by making a CCBS Takadox, but it soon escalated into me wanting to remake all the warlords in CCBS form. I wanted to keep as close to the original set's appearance as possible, down to replicating the limb lengths and colours in the right places, but doing that only using CCBS parts (aside from the head, weapons and sometimes the feet).

A full gallery including alternate views of all models can be found here.

So, without further ado, time for some pictures, complete with descriptions taken straight from Flickr:

 Takadox:



Here is my favourite of all the Barraki first of all: Takadox! In some respects he is the hardest of the Barraki to replicate in CCBS, due to the only Dark Blue parts in CCBS being Skull Spider masks and zero Trans-Fluorescent Blue CCBS parts. I still really like how he turned out, even if he now wears Skull Spiders and has a lot of his Dark Blue replaced with Black.

 Pridak:



Here's the second Barraki in the series: Pridak. Out of all the CCBS renditions, Pridak is probably the closest to his original set appearance, given his waist articulated torso translates very well into CCBS. I also tried custom built feet to try and replicate his original feet. I was going to use the original feet but then I saw the Protector feet on my Master Wu Dragon and immediately saw the similarities, so brick built them.

 Ehlek:



Here is the third Barraki: Ehlek! He was originally my first Barraki set. This Ehlek is probably a bit bigger than his original incarnation due to using 2 CCBS bones instead of a Technic liftarm for his body (a technique I'd used on Takadox as well). I was going to use Ehlek's original feet for this, but I didn't have any in my collection so kinda had to settle for Beast feet given I couldn't find a custom solution I liked.

 Mantax:



This is Mantax, who probably has the most unique build of the 6 and thus was a little challenge to get right. If you look closely, the shape of the original build is imitated in CCBS using a blend of Takadox's CCBS build and a 9x9 torso. This is probably one of my favourite of the builds as I think it almost perfectly replicates the original Mantax build.

 Kalmah:



Here is Kalmah, the first of the two Barraki with a more standard humanoid build (or "the Inika build" as I so often see it termed). I have tried to replicate the general shape and colour segregation of the torso in the original set as much as possible here, even if it has resulted in Kalmah perhaps putting on a little bit of extra weight   I probably would have put more dark red shells on the sides of the torso, but I ran out of dark red shells as Kalmah relies heavily on dark red in his colour scheme.

 Carapar:



Finally, here's the last of the Barraki: Carapar. He was always the strong and armoured one out of the Barraki, so I made sure that was reflected in his CCBS iteration. The colour is perhaps the most difficult to get right, given that Carapar's marbled olour was uniqque to that set. I eventually settled with a combination of Pearl Gold and Keetorange, the Pearl Gold since it is the closest match to Carapar's head colour, and Keetorange because, well, he featured that colour in the original set. Carapar is also one of the few models I've made to incorporate a Technic function, pushing together two Technic bushes on his claw causes them to open, then the claw snaps shut when you let go.

Well, hoped you liked looking at my renditions of Barraki in CCBS. Comments and constructive feedback will be much appreciated, and feel free to pick out your favourites of the bunch and explain why. Hopefully these might garner more interest here than they did on EB   

[Millennium]

In a word (well, two actually)?

 

Simply outstanding, your works never disappoint.

 

Takadox, IMO, is clearly the best out of the group, with Kalmah close behind. I was unsure about Carapar at first, mainly because of the colors, but I think the claws are growing on me.

[Evergrey: Toa of Music]

I really like how you did Pridak's feet. Very nicely done. The other 5 are outstanding as well! I love Kalmah in general; he just looks great!

 

You planning on doing a Nocturne in the future? If so I'd be curious to see your interpretation of him

[Millennium]

I really like how you did Pridak's feet. Very nicely done. The other 5 are outstanding as well! I love Kalmah in general; he just looks great!

 

You planning on doing a Nocturne in the future? If so I'd be curious to see your interpretation of him

Oh yes, please. Nocturn has always been one my faves (even though I never owned it...).

[TheOneVeyronian]

I really like how you did Pridak's feet. Very nicely done. The other 5 are outstanding as well! I love Kalmah in general; he just looks great!

 

You planning on doing a Nocturne in the future? If so I'd be curious to see your interpretation of him

 

There is almost definitely a Nocturn in the works, I always considered him at least a "pseudo-Barraki" so not doing a CCBS version of him wouldn't make sense to me. In fact I placed a BL order for some Nocturn parts, and will start working on it when that arrives. Hopefully they'll arrive tomorrow 

[Ford]

I love all of these designs!

I especially like the design on Takadox and how posable the body appears to be.

[BrickPharaoh]

I think you already know my thoughts on these. They're absolutely brilliant, all of them! I do have favorites, however, which are Mantax, Kalmah and Carapar, all for having much sturdier-looking torso constructions than the others. 

 

And I think BioSector got the symbols wrong :/

 

Edited August 5, 2015 by Mohamed Marei

[TheOneVeyronian]

I think you already know my thoughts on these. They're absolutely brilliant, all of them! I do have favorites, however, which are Mantax, Kalmah and Carapar, all for having much sturdier torso constructions than the others. 

 

And I think BioSector got the symbols wrong :/

 

 

I thought that as well. I think Takadox's and Kalmah's are possibly the wrong way round, but for the life of me I can't remember the correct way, the last time I saw those symbols anywhere else was 8 years ago 

 

I wouldn't call Kalmah's a particularly sturdy design though - his torso's solid enough but his arms are prone to falling off 

[BrickPharaoh]

 

I think you already know my thoughts on these. They're absolutely brilliant, all of them! I do have favorites, however, which are Mantax, Kalmah and Carapar, all for having much sturdier torso constructions than the others. 

 

And I think BioSector got the symbols wrong :/

 

 

I thought that as well. I think Takadox's and Kalmah's are possibly the wrong way round, but for the life of me I can't remember the correct way, the last time I saw those symbols anywhere else was 8 years ago 

 

I wouldn't call Kalmah's a particularly sturdy design though - his torso's solid enough but his arms are prone to falling off 

 

 

Fair enough, hence my edit to my previous post. I'd still like him even if he didn't have any arms at all

 

[Bonkle]

Absolutely outstanding! MORE CCBS 2007 NOW!!!!

[Evergrey: Toa of Music]

Absolutely outstanding! MORE CCBS 2007 NOW!!!!

Toa Mahri Jaller is easy...just put the Protector of Fire's mask on Tahu Okoto and give him different weapons

[BrickPharaoh]

 

Absolutely outstanding! MORE CCBS 2007 NOW!!!!

Toa Mahri Jaller is easy...just put the Protector of Fire's mask on Tahu Okoto and give him different weapons

 

And maybe swap out some of the gold for orange.

 

[TheOneVeyronian]

Hey, steady on now with the requests guys! I've been asked to do Nocturn, Icarax and now all the Mahri and anything else 2007 related. One at a time! No Hahli though, have you seen all the dark blue (which is nearly nonexistent in CCBS) on her? 

 

Speaking of which, my Bricklink order containing Nocturn's head arrived today, so I might get started on that soon, but I've got more pressing things to deal with at the moment 

[Bonkle]

Hey, steady on now with the requests guys! I've been asked to do Nocturn, Icarax and now all the Mahri and anything else 2007 related. One at a time! No Hahli though, have you seen all the dark blue (which is nearly nonexistent in CCBS) on her? 

 

Speaking of which, my Bricklink order containing Nocturn's head arrived today, so I might get started on that soon, but I've got more pressing things to deal with at the moment 

I would definitely love to see some characters, but take as long as you need.   I was just joking.   it is still outstanding work.

[meowmachine]

I love them. I like the solidity of their armor, but this still makes them seem creepy. Very good.