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Has No One Really Done This?


ToM Dracone

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As shown above, a delightful batch of pieces recently came to me. Takadox swords, a couple #1 angle connectors so I don't have only one in those colors, glow in the dark spines, smooth Technic panels, red Mahri tubes and black tentacles (I have no '07 playsets), and then a bunch of lime and purple and dark blue Technic pieces for my stockpiles of those colors. Because they're awesome colors and I have too few pieces in them. Plus some random pieces for other MOCs.

 

But the whole reason I got this order was for the hockey chest armor pieces. And they are because I realized that the Technic holes are at a width of seven studs – exactly the right size to fit an Inika or Piraka torso.

 

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Here we have Hewkii, modeling the piece. It makes wonderful armor to go on the Piraka torso. It sticks out a bit more on the Inika body, but, with some creativity filling in underneath, it can look positively swell.

 

Really, has no one noticed this before? I'd be shocked if nobody had, but since I myself haven't run across such, I figured I'd post it...

~ ToM

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Yeah, I've done that. I've got quite a few of those hockey pieces, I did it once while messing around with them. I never took pics of it, didn't seem to amazing to me.

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It seems empty without filler like CzaR did . . .

 

but I like it :P

With filler like Czar did it seems cluttered. It needs filler more like Jaller Mahri has, which doesn't fill the space nearly as much but still manages to improve the appearance.

 

Never did it for Hewkii Mahri, whose lack of armor I don't mind too much, but I used hockey armor on a Piraka torso a long time ago, and have since tried using it for a Toa Macku.

 

On the subject of the revamp, give him Piraka thigh armor, or maybe black Metru thigh armor. The thigh armor here is unnecessarily bulky and even more unnecessarily rounded, especially now that the hockey armor joins the mask in establishing a more angular motif.

 

And I know you're going to hate me for reiterating this, but certainly add the red horn. It matches the Cordak ammo and button as well as adding much-needed contrast (and don't ask me why it's needed what with the incredibly dark black and the incredibly bright Keetorange, but the image just seems like it needs much more brightness). It might help to find somewhere to add more Keetorange; besides those stylistically inconsistent upper legs no area of the body has much of it, making him lose the distinctive air of a Toa of Stone.

 

Hint for improvement: The hockey torso armor looks so much awesomer with an Inika torso. It'll need more filling in around the midsection, but it's totally worth it.

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Aaaanchir, haven't we been through all this on the Hewkii revamp already? The Roborider heads would be yellow-orange Inika thigh armor. No, there will not be red anywhere, because it clashes enormously, whereas the silver horn works with the other silver on him. The real revamp has plenty of yellow on it.

 

This isn't a revamp. This is Hewkii modeling the hockey armor because he's convenient. Savvy?

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Black whips. Yes.

 

Do awesome things with them.

They are quite handy…

 

I NEED MAOR. D:

I have four. =D

 

But I still need some of that hockey armor... I don't have any... D=

 

BtB

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Aaaanchir, haven't we been through all this on the Hewkii revamp already? The Roborider heads would be yellow-orange Inika thigh armor. No, there will not be red anywhere, because it clashes enormously, whereas the silver horn works with the other silver on him. The real revamp has plenty of yellow on it.

 

This isn't a revamp. This is Hewkii modeling the hockey armor because he's convenient. Savvy?

 

Forgot. Very well then. The silver horn, however, seems not vibrant enough, and I have to say Hewkii is one of the only sets on which I feel the red horn looks good. If not red, then black, but I feel silver definitely has to go.

 

I thought you were recommending such armor particularly for Hewkii. My mistake. Still, it would work very well with his mask, even though I personally prefer less bulky armor for him.

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