Here’s my version of Toa Chiara (which I’ll submit in the future Duckbrick’s contest).
As always, when I design a canon character, all the pieces (minus the mask) exist in the colors I’ve used.
I wanted to give her a lean, somehow feminine, silhouette, but also convey a sense of strength and agility. Taking inspiration from her bio, I imagined her like an huntress who’s armor is made of her trophies: you can spot pieces of Bohrok, Visorak and Rahkshi on her.
She has a gear on her back just for aesthetic.
This is the first time I make a Toa build that features a torso joint. The metru foot can be kept in place with a white rubber band that links the 1/2 bush with the joint.
A bonus shot f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶d̶a̶t̶o̶r̶ of Chiara using her mask’s power.
Here are some size comparisons:
with Gelu, for story reasons.
with @doni’s Orde and my Zaria
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Neat! I like how this Chiara isn’t a Metru build, but has similar torso proportions. The added joints are nice as well!
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Neat. Coincidentally has a good few similarities to my own MOC I plan on sharing closer to time for the competition- weirdly much similar even. Maybe a little tall, but not entirely unbelievable.
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I really like this build. Not just the design decisions, but also the style; to me, it strikes the perfect balance of prefab Bionicle parts and more intricate custom Technic builds, while also not going overboard with either complexity or simplicity.
As for the aforementioned design decisions, I like the colour distribution and shaping, particularly the shaping of her legs. The Kohrak shield/gear combo on her back also looks really cool.
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Very clean build! Love it.
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Prelim voting are open
My entry is n°21 in BRACKET 3.
Good luck to everybody and may the best win.
On a side note, I’m waiting for the last pieces to arrive, then I’ll build her and post some irl photos.
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Torso articulation:
Sadly, as you can see, one bricklink seller sent me a blue piece instead of a dark blue one (I get that you can confuse a pearl white and a white Rahkshi head, which he/she also did, but the two blues are miles apart).
The Volitak came in a lot with the filter chewed, so I cut it off completely and I used it as a placeholder since my only friend with a 3d printer is now on vacation.
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- How have I not liked this before despite having a good impression?
- How did this not make it to the semi-finals? It’s better than half the current finalists!
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1 I don’t know, but better late then never?
2 trying to be objective, I can imagine different reasons:
-Too many entries, so people get tired and after a while they start rushing to get to the end of voting (last entries in a bracket and the last brackets themself will suffer for this)
-For the same reason people wont vote in all the brackets (they say you have to do it for your vote to count but I can’t be sure they made those votes invalid)
-Once someone have an idea of how a character should look, they vote all the entries that fit that idea, hence why a lot of finalists look very similar to each other.
-Connected to the previous reasons, when they have a favorite entry, they vote for that and the rest at random.
-I believe the majority of people don’t examine entries (look at the builds/breakdown photos), they Just stop at the image in the entry page.
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@D-E_GOISIS and @iylv , I’m trying to figure this out myself. I’ve started a discussion thread to ask for how others vote and to try and convince of these reasons.
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How do people vote?
Step 1, start years ago.
Step 2, create an entrenched voter-base.
Step 3, bully the other MOCist who are better than you into not participating.
It’s all a popularity contest. People say they value originality, like @D-E_GOISIS ’s entry… but people are dishonest. Literally 4 identical builds and 9 identical kanohi.
Truth is, it’s always been a monopoly.
As a side note, could I borrow ideas from your Zaria? I’m 75% done, but I want to tweak of lot of things… that or I’m tempted to go the meme entry route & make Zaria a dummy thicc catboy.
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While Step 3 is much rarer, it was obvious with the Orde contest for 1&2. I was hoping to get some sort of feedback from others to improve my Zaria myself, but if you want, I could message you.
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I’m more of a 3D modeller than a MOCist. Most of the “advice” I’ld give you is shilling for my own custom kanohi, but this is D-E_Goisis’s thread.
As a side note, I love the whole invisible phasing design.
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Feel free to take inspiration from it.
As a matter of fact, recently I’ve seen some really cool Zaria’s MOCs and I was thinking about making a V.2 of my design.
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Really love your staff.
The leg design is a little too greebly to take wholesale, but I might draw heavy inspiration for that.
Also, if you’re doing a V2, will you consider including my kanohi? Stud.io files in the download link.
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This is why presentation always matters, friend!
First impressions are more important than they seem 
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