now that’s a hot artkaha 
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I’m sorry, but I believe this entry is ineligible. Artakha does not wield the omnitrix.
If he did wear the omnitrix, Greg would have specified.
Thank you for your patience.
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He would say jokes aren’t canon 
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Sweats nervously, having used the same piece in his own entry
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With the Omnitrix covered, though.
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Here is the link to my entry into the contest. I uploaded it on Wednesday night, but want to make sure it’s seen.
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My entry! Artahka, the Master Crafter.
https://board.ttvchannel.com/t/artahka-the-master-crafter-canon-contest-2-meet-the-maker/55838
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Ok, I’ll enter this one instead.
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Here’s my entry.
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I personally feel like this should’ve been a rule, if Artakha turns out to be almost all gold, silver, gun-metal, etc. It would conflict heavily with his canon description and therefore wouldn’t make any sense, for example, why would he be described as having “gray-green armor” when his armor is gun-metal or something?
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You’re right, but I can’t think of any entries that I have seen that have been predominantly non-green. There have been a few with a second primary (meaning most important, not red-yellow-blue) colour, but green has always been there.
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There are a handful that green is a bit more secondary to the metalic colors. I think they softened up on the 60% rule due to vagueness in determination of the percentage. For future contests, I’d recommend that if there is gonna be any color restrictions, make it a full piece count (excluding stuff like bones/connectors/pins etc) and determine percentage that way!
But ya @Propulsion I agree, perhaps it should’ve been a harder rule this time around. Alot of community upsetness from the rules dropping without a discussion period kinda led to it being softened. Thankfully next contest we can have a solid rule discussion period! As for this one, a large majority of the Artakha’s are predominantly green, so there’s a high likelihood the winner will be mostly green!
-Solaris Magnus
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Being described by their secondary colors has some precedence in canon. Hewkii Inika is described as being yellow, despite primarily being gunmetal. And, if I recall correctly, the 08 sets were described by their secondary colors rather than their primary grey/silver/black.
Though to shoot my own argument in the foot, the later can be excused because they are members of a team, but Artakha is an individual. And Greg might have not have seen the final set, similar to how he gave Jaller Inika two swords.
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Yes but it hasn’t always been the main color, nor secondary for that matter.
I don’t know, people really like the ones that aren’t green…
Primary example for both of your replies is @WholesomeGadunka’s MOC.
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Hewkii was a little upset no one had commented on the fact that his armor had turned from brown to yellow when he became a Toa.
Agreed. Hewkii did have quite a bit of yellow on his body though, to the point of which it would be reasonable to describe him as such.
He stood at least 10 feet tall. His armor was gray-green and covered in runes carved at the beginning of time.
I think that Artakha should reflect his description, which is to basically a titan with runes layered on top of of sand green armor that covers a decent portion of his body. Personally, I prefer Artakha with gunmetal and sand green. Voting hasn’t started yet and if people want something different, then so be it.
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If the will of the people puts that entry into the #1 spot, TTV will have to find a way to reconcile the two. Thus is democracy.
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What makes you think they would do as such? and how exactly would they do it?
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Maybe in the art contest we could add more sand green on the MOC by adding runes of that color on the drawn portrayals of it?
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@ Above convo
Not necessarily, in terms of the color palette. As @Mesonak clarified this weekend, you are voting for an entry that has a fixed color scheme, unless it is not sand-green, in which only the alternative green can be recolored in the art contest. This was the whole reason for restricting multiple shades of green in the first place. So if this particular MOC wins, which it may, since it utilizes sand green, though not necessarily as its primary color, then that’s the color palette the artist(s) have to work with.
While the argument could be made to allow the art portion to recolor at will, that would be disingenous to all those who had to alter their entries to remove multiple shades of green to fit within the art recoloring portion. I personally know a friends who is still waiting for pieces as his had multiple shades of green. You’re voting for any MOC understanding that the color palette of the official artwork can only be altered from Mata/Metru/Lime green to sand green.
@Jathru_Cranli That would be a possible solution, though could lead to more debate given that the desription of the runes is being layered over his sand-green armor. A viable suggestion though!
Really can’t stress enough - Post the ruleset a few weeks in advance of the following contests. We can hash out these potential pitfalls that are cropping up now before its the week before voting!
-Solaris Magnus
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If we wanna get into semantics the Phantoka and Mistika were still mentioned by their primary colour despite most of them being less than 60% that colour by that point lol
-Solaris Magnus
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