Gitaxian

The Hordika chestplate works surprisingly well as robes. It's a shame that the CCBS shells aren't available in dark red to match his mask, but you did a fantastic job with what was available.

The parts usage here is awesome, especially the new heads used as part of the face and the mask being used to fill out the front of the body. 

Ah yes... very nice.... So why is there an Onua Claw on his back?

Aw, I love this lil' dude. The orange lehrak staff makes a really good tool/weapon -- it looks like some sort of zappy drill thing. The only possible improvement I could think of would be to either make his shoulders broader, or his torso shorter. He looks a bit tall and reedy, even with the armor.

I think I am going to have to agree here. The staff was a good choice for an engineer's weapon of sorts. Also Matoran are known for being a little stockier by design so having a lanky and thin Matoran may not go over as well. I don't think you can make him any shorter, so expanding his shoulders to widen his profile may be your next best bet.

 

It was the weapon that inspired me to go with Nuparu in the first place - up until I found that part all I knew was that I wanted to make a matoran using the torso build.

I probably should have gone with a shoulder build closer to the protector of earth, but I wanted to push to see how small of a torso I could make. The claw is there as a sort of roll cage around the visible gear pattern on the top of the torso to go with the power-miners-inspired aesthetic.

The creator of the Boxer? Ah he looks so cute....

 

Looks like you did a nice little MOC there. What is that in his right hand?

It's an orange Lehrak staff from a power miners set with a gunmetal rounded shoulder armor attachment.

Here's some more pictures of the build:

Back view

Without Armor and Weapons

Alternate Pose

Entry Image

I wanted to do something that just couldn't be done, or at least not done well, without CCBS parts. I decided to go for a Matoran because the smaller CCBS limbs give a lot more flexibility on such a small scale.

He's actually about 2 modules shorter than a protector.