For those of you, who care: This topic might contain spoilers about the book "Revenge of the Skull Spiders"
That said, I guess it’s already clear that this MOC is supposed to be the missing archeologist from the jungle region. Probably there are already a dozen MOCs of her, but I wanted to try and build her anyways and I think the MOC turned out looking pretty nice.
This actually is my first honest CCBS MOC uploaded anywhere, I think. Although “CCBS” is kinda an imprecise term. The real custom stuff here just contains two parts I consider CCBS, after all …
But there’s another thing I tried out for the first time on a Bionicle MOC: Accessories. And they’re made out of system stuff to a great extend at that! (Looking at my other MOCs you might notice, that I usally don’t mix sytem with technic). I’ve seen this done a couple of times on other people’s MOCs of course and I think it works with the smooth CCBS look, but not really with the G1 building style, which I normally do.
Ok, let’s start with how I did Harvali. The arms and legs are obviously just those of Vizuna and the head is, of course, too. But instead of using the CCBS torso (which I hate by the way), I went for something much better looking and - most of all - 100% custom. I really like how the torso looks, there is just one single minor thing that is not fully to my liking: the torso is 1 balljoint higher than the normal Protector torso, thus making Harvali here a little taller than all the Protectors, which doesn’t really fit in my opinion.
I would have liked to do more custom stuff on arms and legs, too, but I simply have no idea what to do with parts that have neither axle- nor pin holes.
Instead I equipped Harvali with a bag (I still can’t believe I actually managed to make a good looking one), a knife (a tool, not a weapon), a spear (as in the book) and a lantern.
The spear was aimed to look as simple as possible, while not being build too simple. Or, to say it a different way, I needed to do something on the long axles that form the shaft. I’m not perfectly sure, if the yellow fits in that well here, but it looks better compared to Harvali’s colour scheme, than these parts in grey.
About the lantern: I know, that a lantern is normally held a little different, but I couldn’t pull that off without going for custom hands - which I might have done, if I had an idea how to do ones in this scale with five fingers (Harvali is, after all, still an Okotian).
By the way, am I the only one who thinks that she might become something like the G2 Chronicler?
But after all this text … what about more pics?
The journey begins!
Did I pack the mosquito spray?
Sharpening the spear
Thinking things through
And more pics, so you can better see the absolutely awesome beautifulness of the torso build. And no blue pins! (I took special care of that…)
What are yout thoughts?
