Mr. Makuro and Von Ness -my version-

[ShadowBionics]

These MOCs are sort of old and I haven't really shared them with many. I know there's a few things that can be improved on them, but some parts I just need to obtain and I'm currently working on getting the parts I need.I'll start off with my variation of Von Ness. There's a few variations of him, some of which use a combination of painted parts and existing ones or just existing parts from sets. Mine is sort of like the former.Von NessAll right, so first off what I did was I used a duplicate of Stringer and Breez to make this guy. I also borrowed Von Nebula's arm spikes and mask to complete the look. Now, since Stringer only had one fist in black, I didn't really know what to do, and I didn't want to give him Breez's fists since it would look bad. So I gave him this gold one as a temporary place holder. Also, I know he uses a weapon similar to Surge's weapons, but since I didn't have Surge at my disposal I gave him a prototype weapon I made.Von Ness uses a torso design like Bulk, but since I wasn't going to go paint a Bulk torso (I'm not going to paint mine and it's impossible to find another one of him now), I gave him Stringer's torso, which is something I've seen other people do as well. Then I used Breez's limbs and head for the rest of him. Most people I've seen use Surge's limbs and few people actually use his head and hero core for him as well. I thought to make him have all-black armor like his villain counterpart, so I went with Breez. And as I mentioned, the mask and spikes are borrowed, so the MOC isn't truly permanent."No! I'm staying here!"A small size comparison with the original Stormer. Nothing really special about him, so he's the same size as a standard 1.0 hero.Caught and CuffedAnd for fun, here he is captured by Stormer and brought to justice... in our imaginations, that is. These hand cuffs were actually from an old toy set I had as a child, and this was before they brought out the Breakout line with the new hero cuffs.All right, now for Mr. Makuro, who I've only seen one other person do. There might be others, but I've seen only one as of the moment I'm posting this.Mr. MakuroFirst thing you'll probably note is the painted parts. I wasn't sure what you would call his colors, so I went with making it like a rusted gold. The paint is unfortunately chipping off in these pictures, so you can see the original colors of the pieces. When I first saw him, I thought his face looked familiar, and then I looked at my Kanohi collection and realized why. His face reminded me of a Noble Mahiki (Matau's mask). I had 3 of these in a tan color, so I sacrificed one to make it gold. He also uses a scrapped Turaga design I had, since I thought it wouldn't fit in with the new 2008 Matoran design. I still kept it in mind if in case I wanted to try it out again. His walking stick, I know, could have been done better, but at the moment I'm still searching for a black axle connector or possibly a longer axle to replace it with.Side viewAnd here he is from the side. From here, you can see some technic beams are used to add some depth to the body design. You can also see he's a little bit hunched over, sort of inspired by both the old Turaga designs from the movies and somewhat on his design from the actual series.There you go. Again, I know they aren't the best and I'm currently looking for ways to improve them. With Von Ness, one obvious solution is to just give him another black fist, but I'm working on that. For Mr. Makuro, I'm not entire sure what else to do aside from giving him another design.

[Nocturnox]

Neato! I think using the mahiki was very clever, I never noticed how similar they looked!

[Plague]

These are pretty cool! Love Mr. Makuro, but he could use some more... gold torso stuff.