Honor Guard: Art Contest Results (BIONICLE Canon Contest #3)

[Tarkur]

@darkbrick999

I am a bit disappointed that Greg didn’t acknowledge Pouks’ and Bomonga’s masks as variants of the Kakama and Mask of Kindred, though.

Where did you read or hear this? The first post in this post sure doesn’t specify. Could you fetch a link to where that statement was made, maybe?

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@TheJerminator

Bomonga has his really cool silhouette

I don’t really agree but to each their own I guess.

@TheJerminator

As a tiny little detail, I’m also happy that Gaaki’s tubes were kept silver, rather than being changed to copper.

I agree with this but only because painting hoses is a pain in the butt

@TheJerminator

But from an overall Bionicle Fan perspective, looking at these results simply as the canon appearance of the Toa Hagah

I’m really disappointed but the metallic color split is the best thing about these.

[TheJerminator]

I just noticed another unusual change.

Kualus’s upper arms were changed to white, which is one of the changes that I was previously disappointed in, but now his upper legs have been changed to black. So I guess he still has a unique distribution of black after all.

(Or is it just the dark shading?)

[darkbrick999]

BS01 has Bomonga’s and Pouks’ masks labeled as unknown shapes.

[SubParFauxPas]

There are a few more changes than that to Kualus, which I’m not particularly pleased about as I went into this contest with the express understanding that only the details I’d given permission to be changed (just the metallic armour colour) could be changed in the following art portion.

On the left is my winning model - on the right is my model, modified to more closely match the changes made to it’s design in the winning artwork.
(note, I do not have a white metru chest cover to substitute for the black one atm, the cloth is still tan - not brown like it is now in the artwork, and the armour is unpainted, but those would be the rest of the changes not represented here)

I won’t delve into the decisions and rational that went into each of my design choices that have been changed arbitrarily here, and for what it’s worth I think Specter’s artwork is phenomenal and deserving of this win - I voted for it for a reason.
But I’m not satisfied with the amount of leniency given to artists on adhering to the designs they were supposed to be representing, especially when other far more trivial things were so strictly enforced - and I can’t help but feel disappointed by the outcome because of it, despite my respect for Specter and admiration of his work.

[StudentScissors]

Congrats specter!

@Tarkur

I won’t give up on wanting a parts ratio restriction though and I’ll likely will die on that hill

Parts ratio restriction?

[Tarkur]

@StudentScissors

Parts ratio restriction?

TLDR: We don’t really have to open that can of worms in this topic. It was a whole ordeal.

[Voyager]

@cynic1987

did you do this yourself

They are painted by a very skillful friend of mine.

@ToaKiko

Is this a custom color mix

Yes. He mixed several colors to get metal green.

[KDNX]

The Hagah have no bearing on the color schemes of normal Toa. The metallic color is simply additional armor.

[Rukah]

the more I look at the new metallic colors the more I like them
Shame we couldn’t get a 3-3 split, but this is probably the next best thing

[Takutanuva]

Congrats to the winner and all other participants

[Fenrakk_Nui95]

Thank you, I wasn’t aware of any of these colors since metallic green is not precisely a common color in Bionicle and I don’t own any Krana yet. The second one still looks slightly shiny like an actual metal would look, so it’s totally fine by me to use it.