Just Another Tahu

[Black Six]

Way back in who knows when DeeVee announced the Bionicle trophies for Bricks Cascade 2012 out in Portland, and one of them was for the 'Best Toa Moderator.' And I thought to myself, 'I should actually build something for a fan event this year,' and a Toa seems like a great place to start. And since the theme for BrickFair was Fire! it only made sense to make everyone's favorite fire Toa, Tahu. Not very original, but that wasn't the intent.Most of my Bionicle parts are still packed up from when I was in college, but I've been steadily picking up Hero Factory sets as I see ones that catch my eye or that go on sale, so Tahu is pretty much entirely Hero Factory parts (the mask and sword are from the Stars set, obviously). I played around with a bunch of different color combinations, trying for the classic red and orange on a black frame, the same on a red frame, and finally settled on red on black, since my orange part selection just wasn't enough to get the job done. I think it works pretty well.

At one point I also experimented with adding some gold highlights. They didn't work too well with the black, but I managed to scrounge up enough red limb pieces to make a red and gold version. Only having one fire sword, I had to tack on some other weapons. The idea is: what would Tahu do after Mata Nui's victory over Makuta on Bara Magna? Maybe he'd give the Glatorian Arena a try to help keep his skills sharp. And so Glatorian Arena Tahu was born!

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[FrozenFlash]

The HF parts look really good on Tahu although the shoulder armor looks a bit too big. The back is also nicely done. My only complaint is that while the red is nice, there's just a bit too much of it. There should've been another color to this. Other than that, great job on this!

[Paleo]

GASP Andrew made something.Considering your current parts situation, this is pretty good. Despite the fact that the HF shells leave half open limbs, you did a nice job filling in the back, and I really like the armoring on the ankles.Keep it up bossman.

[Sumiki]

My only issue is that Tahu's eyes don't stand out. I think that's the reason they strayed made them green for his Stars incarnation.As Paleo pointed out, you did a good job with limited parts, and I think you convey a sense of Tahu even though it's made with HF parts.(goodness, it's so strange critiquing my superior)

[Nuparu1995]

So simple...yet it works so well! I love the body design, all in just a few pieces!

[Obsessionist]

It is simple, but it looks nice. Well done with the back armor and shinguards. I think that is Bionicle ever returned it would look like this.