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Kathaarian

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  1. I've been staying inside because of the flu, so I built the Toa Nuva Kaita earlier, and also reverse-engineered Michael Ramberg's Toa Nui Rai-Engos. I still had another full set of Toa Mata left free to use (Minus Pohatu's arms), so I gathered the Nuva and Mata scraps I had laying around, as well as a few spare parts from extras of the same sets.
    Spent about half an hour each building these, and figured they were post-worthy. I see them as being sort of like a Bionicle equivalent to ancient mythic and tribal gods of the elements. I'm not good at writing much about things. So without further ado, these guys:
    Onua-Tahu (Volcano)
    http://imgur.com/6XvLsUi
    This guy used the most spare parts from my collection, but in keeping with the personal challenge I have myself, he didn't use anything not in the Nuva or Mata sets. Mostly meant to look like a brutish, destructive giant, if anything.
    Lewa-Gali (Gale)
    http://imgur.com/O3Vu0F2
    I couldn't help but want to use both axes, as it just looked so cool. The overall design is meant to be somewhere between an axe-wielding maniac, a mech, and a multi-armed deity.
    Pohatu-Kopaka (Avalanche)
    http://imgur.com/jlGVEYs
    Probably my favourite, although I can't quite decide between him and Gale. Intended to look like a cross between Pohatu and Kopaka's basic concepts (A runner and a swordsman), and elements.
    Scrap-built self-MOC (Medic)

    http://imgur.com/wn8mxEH
    Gave him the Akaku, as I love steampunk (And Kopaka), as well as a walking stick, because I've had to use one for over a year, so it fit. The medic color scheme is just what I had it easiest throwing together without being too ugly. Nothing special, just something I made out of scraps and decided I liked.

  2. Two new builds I threw together an hour or so ago. Mostly just built to use the Revoltech-style clickjoints on smaller builds.
    http://imgur.com/a/Yf6k4
    The Atakus helmet reminds me a little of the movie Starscream, so I figured I might as well give him wings.
    The Shadow Toa was going to be a more dark-coloured Vakama, but then I decided to use the black Noble Huna and make it a whole different character. Both are made to look a little weird and disproportionate, to fit with the more "chaotic" style of Shadow characters I build.

  3. The Titan-Toa are likey, I love the use of Bohrokd bodies as limbs. Makuta looks a little weak on the upper legs and arms, but has a good build, in overall. Nothing extremely original, that's it, but it's a cool MOC anyway. The black lizardman is great, though.

    The black lizardman is what I consider my best work, which is funny when you realise that he's just the Titan-Toa build with a bigger CCBS torso beam and extra leg joint.

  4.  EVA and Angel are pretty cool. I have no idea what Evangelian is, so I have no reference point. EVA is my favorite because of those big tire shoulder pads, I like those a lot for some reason I'm not sure why. I eally have no complaints with it besides maybe the slight gaps in the torso. Angel on the other hand I don't really like. Maybe its the nuva armor hips, or the wide spread shoulders, but I just don't really like it. The torso is really odd because of those hips that appear to stick out in front of the chest armor. I may like it better if I knew what it was meant to be, because then the torso design might make more sense

    http://fc02.deviantart.net/images/i/2003/39/5/2/Eva_Unit_01_vs_Sachiel.jpg

    That's the EVA and Angel I was using for inspiration. I've seen people do some good imitations of the anime designs, but not much custom units or angels.

            I really like these mini sets. It is amazing how you fit the functions into them. My only gripe is the Bahrags green teeth and claws, which I can assume is due to lack of parts.

     

        Finally, the Titan Mata. I can't really say much about them besides the fact that they do look similar to their smaller counter parts. My only complaints is the red on Gali, and the over use of gunmetal on Lewa, which for both I can understand your lack of parts, as you had said. Besides those things. These are pretty cool (Especially Kopaka  :D )

     

     

     

     

     

    The potato quality on some images.

     

    You gotta love autocorrect  :P .

    Titan Mata were made before I got an enormous crate of 2001-2003 sets. I was going to redo them, but then I made other stuff. As always, Kopaka was the greatest.

    Minis were made before I even moved to the city and got G2, and I'm extremely surprised at how good they came out.

    As for potato, that was on purpose. Pretty sure a bowl of french fries would take better pictures.

     

          I must say, Takua Nuva is awesome, I especially like chroniclers staff spear and(whats up with me and shoulders today? First the lizard mans shoulder spikes, next, Eva's tire shoulders and now this).  The ninja guy is cool, I really like the thin lower arms, which I find ninja-ish. I'm going to assume the other guy is supposed to be Jaller. My main complaint with him is the chest plate which appears to be darker than everything else, of course this could just be the lighting.

    Takua Nuva actually has horrible balance, believe it or not. And hollow legs, but that's just another purchase away from a fix.

    The ninja was intended to be a feminine character, but Bionicle doesn't do that well on that scale.

    As for Jaller, his chestplate is standard silver like the rest of him. Probably just lighting or overexposure.

  5. Okay, I've got a massive pic dump of all my best builds of the last year or so to show off, so let's not waste time on exposition. (Except this: My good camera broke earlier this year, hence the potato quality on some of the images. This new phone sucks.)
    Recent builds:

     

    Lizardmen: http://imgur.com/a/myh3l
    These two are the ones I'm most satisfied with, as they feel complete and free of major gaps.

     

    Makuta: http://imgur.com/a/Xi5zd
    Obviously he makes a comeback. Attempted to use mostly 2001 Rahi parts, to get a more rough, mechanical feel.

     

    Evangelion and Skull Angel: http://imgur.com/a/CFYhV
    Both were started as single components and built off that, with an arm for the EVA, and a Mata torso for Skully.

     

    Akaku and The Mysterious Stranger: http://imgur.com/a/H8cTX
    Akaku is an old character from about a year ago that I refined into a more final version earlier this year. The Mysterious Stranger is actually a revamp of an older build as well, but the original is lost, due to needing white pieces for other stuff..[CORRECTION: I never bothered to take a decent photo of him alone. You can see the original in my avatar.]

     

    Takua Nuva and others: http://imgur.com/a/2dNeR
    Toa Of Light, Captain of the Guard, and a ninja character. Nothing too special here, really.

     

    And from late 2014 through mid-2015, we have:
    Mini Bahrag and Exo-Toa (2014): http://imgur.com/a/3IjzV
    Never owned either set, decided to do minis from my interpretation of the old photos I had seen in catalogues, but lacked correctly-coloured pieces to do something particularly amazing.
     

    Titan Toa Mata:http://imgur.com/a/XJWPf
    Toa Mata-based characters, with what few correctly coloured masks I had. The Lizardmen borrow heavily from their torso and limb builds.

    Well, that's about it for now, unless I dig up some old experiment later. Hope you like what you see here, there'll be much more coming later in the year, hopefully.
     

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  6. Just out of curiosity, what other sets do you have? Could you make more rahi out of parts using whatever is included in the set? E.g. The Manas sets and creating something with their pieces.

    I recently came into possession of the Toa Mata (And a separate set of Kaita), Turaga, 2 of each Bohrok, Rahkshi (Missing Kurahk), Toa Nuva, 2 Makutas, Takanuva, Muaka & Kane-ra, Tarakava, Nui-Jaga.

    I also have a smattering of 01-04 parts, and 07 onwards, with a ton of CCBS. I have a huge lizard-man I built a while ago that I've been meaning to post, but this potato I call a webcam doesn't capture it well.

  7. @Click, I'll be honest, the Bahrag Spider is pretty bad for scraps. The pile it left behind could fill a Mata canister, possibly even two, easily.
    Still, thank you. It wasn't easy to get something recognizable and decent-looking (I focus more on aesthetics) out of what was left without it turning out as a brick. 
    I just realised that I did technically cheat making this, as the Bahrag Spider actually had white Bohrok teeth for eyes, which I swapped for trans-green as soon as I looked at it. So, the teeth are partially a cheat, though very minor.

  8. Wow, it IS appearing a lot.
    Perhaps the appearance of the Toa in the new story is in fact the fallout from the one time the Vahi was used by Tahu in '03, and it just took forever to hit them? There's nothing to suggest that's the case, but it's the best I can come up with for an actual reason the Vahi is being hinted at so much, and for Time in general to be so important all of a sudden.

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    My only fear about the animations is that Gali sounds like Hahli Mahri in the commercial from 2007 with the Toa Terrain Crawler and the Mask of Life.

    I honestly am liking everything about this; the characters, the story, the sets (especially Tahu and his awesome new mask). I'm glad they're going back to a similar story and island, and I much prefer Mata Nui/Ekimu and Makuta being brothers instead of the former creating the latter. I like the new Ekimu and Makuta backstory and really enjoyed this video. I hope the videos that feature the toa are as good as this one, and I hope that the toa have good voices. The only thing I'm not sure whether I like or not is the new animation style, it doesn't really seem anything like MNOG and I feel it's significantly more like the mixels. I assume this style was chosen mostly based on budget. I'm really happy with what we've seen so far, and am probably most excited to see makuta in set form. I can't believe Bionicle is really back, this is exciting.

    Sorry, just a little OT correction, but Mata Nui didn't create Makuta, the GBs created both of them.

    Yeah Im a bit scared about Gali's voice as well.

     

    Personally, the most terrifying thing for me is the voice acting. I'm especially worried they'll give Pohatu an Australian accent to compliment his boomerangs...

     

    I always hoped they'd do him with the kickers again, and make him sound like a football guy, but that's just me.

    As for the Aussie accent, I just imagined it and now I can't stop thinking Lego's going to do that and annoy me out of the animations. GAH.

  10. So now that we know it's the mask of creation, I want to know what the heck happened to Artakha.

    If it is a continuation, that is...

    Wasn't Velika planning to knock off Artakha and a bunch of other guys on Bara Magna?

    EDIT: Should've already said this, but holy word-I-can't-say-on-this-forum I am hyped right now. As in, my hands are honest-to-Mata Nui shaking right now with excitement. I don't think sleep's going to find me until tomorrow night at the soonest now.

  11. Yeah, I agree on the background, I was just up late and couldn't find a better place than the desk I do everything else on (That paper really saved me a lot of trouble showing the details on the cyclops-droid and the little Skrall guy.). I'll set up a little area for MOC displays and photos fairly soon, but first I have to find a good spot that isn't in the way at all. (Or maybe I'll just put them atop my TV, I dunno)
    I know which one you mean by chibi-Stronius, but I see him as more of a generic Skrall or Bone Hunter, simply because I don't have the Stronius helmet (Though I'll put one on him if I ever get one, he'd look SICK with it.). 
    As an aside, any particular thoughts on the Kopaka-Lewa, Nui-Jagamobile, or Cyclopsdroid? Those three are my personal favourites, and it'd be good to hear what I've gotten right and what could be better (The spine on KL stands out to me as a big flaw, though the "cloak" hides it pretty well.). 

  12. I have no real proper backstory or genuine names for these guys, just a couple of pictures to show the basic designs and construction of them, I'm especially proud of that little robot, the Kopaka/Lewa guy, and of course, the Nui-Jagamobile (Seriously, you tell me that doesn't sound awesome when you say it. Nui-Jagamobile. Okay, it is kinda stupid). On the other hand, I HATE the spear dude. Not because he's bad or anything, I think he looks pretty cool, but because he's such a simple build. Slizer was just me using parts that weren't going to be too useful anywhere else.

    Because ImageShack won't let me choose a semi-decent resolution for thumbnails, I'm just going to link the gallery (If that's against any rules or anything, do let me know.) and hopefully you'll like what you see in there.
    Well, here they are: https://imageshack.com/a/vGjz/1

    These were completely random builds with no basic ideas in mind, just a very limited pool of parts from mostly later years of Bionicle (I was still able to keep my silver Akaku when my old collection was donated to my primary school a few years back, though), along with some Hero Factory, and half a Slizer I got at a school fete's markets.

    Anyways, tell me what you think, if I did things right, what needs improving, all that kind of thing.
    Hopefully I'll pick up something from what people have to say about these, and if so, I'll be sure to put it to use, although I won't be improving anything much until I buy some more parts (Which I shall be doing very soon).

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