It’s not pretty, I’ll tell you that. The angled down Va head has been his signature design for quite some time now, so I pulled feedback from the old versions and modified his neck design to better allow for the downward angle. The side effect of this is that posing his head straight means his head is an extra joint forward, and just looks plain awkward.
Wow, he certainly has changed. The decision to add crimson red and swap out the trans-red for trans-blue is a choice I’m all in favor of. The colors contrast each other nicely and are laid out well.
As for the design itself, while I did enjoy the unique stature Shadowgear’s torso gave him, this new one works just as fine. The Bohrok eyes, tubing, and other little details really add some great shaping to the finished result. The limbs are a much needed improvement over the old ones, feeling a lot more cohesive in relation with the body. The way those tire pieces mirror the chest light in shape also provides good consistency in aesthetics.
Oh man I remember that torso.
Love the MOC, it’s greebly without passing over into mess territory.
Part of me misses the old white and black (and later purple IIRC) colour scheme, but I also really like the new colours.
the blue really pops and the grey and red blend really well.
The hands are the only thing that really don’t feel right compared to the rest of the MOC. To me, at least.
But on the I love how this looks. Excellent job overall.
Also yes, purple was added to the color scheme pretty quickly after the original photo set was taken. It suited him quite well, but times change, I guess.
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The hands are a little off to me as well, but I don’t know what to do about it. Due to my signature pose, all versions of Ek need fingers, and this is the only way to implement them without giving him extremely oversized hands or simply no fingers at all.
He’s always had the Bohrok Va head, I didn’t wanna change it now. Canotically he’s just wearing the helmet he’s had for a long time, but that’s moreso a story explanation as to why I chose to keep the signature design over a custom one.
Sorry I just got started here and really I haven’t even had a chance to look at those previous versions. And If I wanted to be truly constructive; if some one has to rely on an outside source to understand some thing then it doesn’t matter if it is film or a M.O.C. Like The Dark Chrystal (a film everyone would watch in my opinion).
