Heir of the Chronicler

I'm 100% in favor of any character being female (or male... ala Berix, Tarix, Surge, and the Protector of Water.)

- Heir

Thematically numerous duplicates of individual sets- whole villages of McToran and Agori, for example, or a squad of Skrall or a pack of Vorox.

- Heir

Fair enough, thanks. The worst part? Had I gotten here sooner, I have the same Vahi up for grabs, too

- Heir

Ahhh, of course somebody beat me to the red Pakari

I'm interested in all the silver Hau's and Miru's.

- Heir

Aesthetically, BIONICLE looked better- we've had nothing but the same recycled shells and handful of attachments for years now. As a building system, CCBS is vastly superior as it's much more modular. If CCBS could be updated with a diversity of shell styles, it would be all around better.

My remaining gripe is how loose shells sit on the "skeleton". The design could have tightened that up, and I don't know why it doesn't.

- Heir

Those are '01 Jala sets, not '03 '03 was when Jala turned into Jaller and got super buff Bohrok arms.

- Heir
 

Kopeke and Tamaru are part of a buyer commission, yes- although I intend to duplicate them for my own collection some day, too!

I want to go further with creating LEGO compatible repaints, so you'll definitely see more like them. I'll post much higher quality pictures of them soon, as well.

Actually, I did use his MNOLG color scheme! They used the same light blue for Tamaru and Kongu's teal, and the same sand blue for Kopeke and Matoro. So, these are MNOLG accurate, rather than "set" accurate, as they changed Tamaru's mask and feet to yellow, and Kopeke's mask and feet to Ga-Koro light blue.

- Heir

Mind = blown.

Great work! Really awesome tribute

- Heir

Oh, wow. After all this time, I have never seen that group shot with Matoro before.

Jaller's looks pretty simple to make, actually. Kohlii staff, Rahkshi foot, Vorzakh staff, no?

- Heir

Are you referring to mold making, ie casting duplicates of existing masks, or are you referring to making a custom mask from scratch? Because those are two totally different things, with several ways to go about each.

- Heir

Only the "totally not canon" ones, really- Huki x Maku, Jala x Hahli, and... I think that's it, no?

If I were in a mood to headcanon, though, I'd Ackar x Kiina all day, erry day.

- Heir

Had no interest in the LoSS, but I'll definitely be picking up the skull villains when I can. I want to support LEGO for actually bringing the line back- and the sets aren't awful, either

- Heir

@Komali

Just PM'd you back!

@Gonny

Give me a sec, let me find the sarcasm font... how dare you have enough interest that you tried repeatedly, across multiple media platforms, to contact me!?

Anyway, I dropped you a PM on here just now. Hope we can make it happen, would be my first custom of that type

- Heir

Yay, I got a vouch

And, yep, I've got an old tutorial- but, I'm taking the site down soon. The tutorials will be updated and reposted to my blog immediately after, though.

Sculpting your own Olisi could be a lot of fun, honestly. That said, it's very difficult to capture in three dimensions- neither mine, or the ShapeWays render, or the one in this thread really do it justice. The art was simply never meant to be replicated by a physical object.

If / when I make another one, it won't be anywhere near as big as my original (which was built on top of an Inika Suletu), but much closer to the size of the one pictured in the OP.

- Heir

@doodlebot

Wow, thanks for the kind words, man

There's no way I'm learning 3D modeling myself- instead, I've touched base with former BZPower member Populus, who did a lot of BIONICLE 3D modeling back in the day and has since gotten several of his renders incorporated into TF2 by Valve. I'm really excited to see what we can do (and, if we do make a go of it, I'll drop you a line!)

@Wazdakka

I'd really rather not provide estimates, as they can very easily be thrown by how simple- or difficult- a custom is. That said, a single mask-size item rarely seems to go above $20, and is much more often on either side of $10. Return shipping, of course, runs everything up.

- Heir

I think his current loadout was a nice tribute to his Mata and Nuva forms, really. Personally, I'd be happy to see him with a hatchet again, ala Strakk.

- Heir

It's not my intention to beat my own drum, but... I can arrange a custom Olisi for you

Who's Karzahni MOC is that, anyway? You should post credit

- Heir

You know, I was going to make another post, but... Aanchir just said everything I was thinking better than I could have said it myself.

Can I just quote you any and every time the Korgot argument comes up again? :-P

- Heir

As long as there's no ball joints, original color doesn't matter as the whole thing's being painted over anyway. I think that Makuta started out as a Onepu, actually

- Heir

@Toa Komali

I certainly can. You can't see it, but the Makuta's eyes are painted under the mask.

@Letagi

No worries, I didn't get to spend nearly as much time as I had wanted on the convention floor, either. At this rate, I aught to just go buy a bunch of McToran from eBay and keep a stockpile of Makutas!

@Toa Nekar

Deserted, indeed. Anyway, sounds good

@Gonny

I was just working on writing back to you, actually! Unfortunately, you're not the only one I owe a reply- and an apology- to.

- Heir

The Russian narrator in the beginning sounds like Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont, Game of Thrones).

Man, the American narration would sound so much better with Iain Glen.

EDIT: I have no idea what Pohatu said at the end, but I feel like it was epic.

I mean, just look at that camera angle. Whatever he said, it had impact, man.

- Heir

Yep- just depends on how much of the Tohunga and what color(s), as some are significantly harder to mix than others.

- Heir

Didn't G1 have exclusives without canon significance, like the gold Vahi versus the orange Vahi? I reckon it'll be the same deal now, although it's certainly easy to headcanon them in as others suggested.

Oh, and welcome to BZP

- Heir

@-TD-

Thanks! Yeah, I'm excited to get started. I hope to use it to create precision masters for resin molds.

@keiththelegokid

That's just an example image- he's not for sale. However, I can create another one for $20 + return shipping, or, if you don't have a Tohunga to spare, $20 + McToran retail + mask retail + return shipping. Let me know!

- Heir

@Tuuli

I think that's just an ambiguous choice of phrasing meant to dodge the reproduction question. Going by my Tolkien model, the correct wording would be, "Protector to first born".

@Wazdakka

Eh... eh. I considered that 2/12 because Gorast and Gali weren't the same species, but that is true, there were two female characters in the same wave of 6.

- Heir