When the Bionicle art book was released as a PDF for our viewing pleasure, I was discussing with @Darknova3529 about one particular character, and how it was pretty much entirely made of already existing pieces. So I decided to try to build it, and here’s the result! It’s fairly accurate, but in some portions I had to change it a bit in order to make the parts connect “legally”, or simply because I didn’t have the pieces .
Here’s a closeup of the shooters. It was quite a challenge to build them in a similar way to the concept art, but I think I did an OK job in the end. The blades looked really awkward in the “correct” position, so I decided to rotate them by 90 degrees. The shooter works really well.
@Doremarpool thanks for the feedback! At first I had the MOC with the upper arms as bone pieces, however I couldn’t find a way to get the 2015 armor add on in the correct position as shoulder pads, so I just attached them as armor. The wrap around shells are far too big for the MOC. Here’s that shell compared to a size five one… yeah, pretty huge.
Thanks for the mention My version was kind of caught up on the gun’s for quite a while and i’d need to order pieces - but i think you’ve got it perfected :3
Its effectively as close to the actual thing as i can imagine currently being possible without recolouring pieces. Though personally i viewed the orange piece in the middle as being a compressed trans-orange armour piece as it seemed more flatter to me. Though the Bohrok eye works well and helps emphasise the rib cage.
Yeah, hopefully they release varying sized versions because i feel that was probably what was going to be used on the upper legs. Though yeah, in terms of current parts, you’ve got it perfected in my view
Nice representation of the art, the design is similar and looks very cool.
Personally, I like to call this guy “Cithwewak”, which is Skull Raider for “Rising Fire”.
I like it a lot.
That’s a really good recreation of the art! This easily could’ve been a set. However, the knee armor seems a little short. Perhaps it could be swapped out with the shredded armor that was on something like Kulta?
Interesting. Looking at the original model, it’s very clear they intended to use the new Star Wars parts, with the hip armor being the 90 degree coverage shells and the knees very clearly being the black 2015 addon.
Maybe if we had gotten this quality of set from the waves themselves, we could have gone to 2017.
Also, poor guy in the background of the concept art…got himself cut in half…
Which is what makes me wonder where we got the childish underdone reboot
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. Anyway, thanks for the feedback!