Alright, sounds good to me! I’ll enter it tomorrow, I need to get some sleep right now
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very good
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dudes goin’ win by a landside
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Excellent the shaping on this smock is splendid.
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Thanks for the typo, now I’m imagining Marendar in a dress
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I wanted to do a bit of an update on my Marendar, so here we go.
This is a bit of an older build, I think it’s over two years old at this point, but despite that for a long time I have thought that it still holds up… mostly. I never really liked the lower leg design that I came up with, even back when I originally built this guy. I thought that it was kinda thin and gappy, didn’t have the best shaping in the world and those knees were way too flimsy and unreliable, and there wasn’t much that I could do back then because that joint was the only thing that had the functionality and dimensions I needed.
Well, recently it has come to my attention that the new ratchet joint parts (1, 2)often seen in the bigger modern Ninjago mechs (that didn’t exist when I built this thing) fit so perfectly in the existing design, it almost seems like they were created specifically to be used in this MOC (I actually remember wishing that something similar to these parts existed way back when I was building this MOC, and the part that I thought up was very similar to what Lego ended up putting out, which is a fun coincidence).
So that’s how I came up with the idea to give my Marendar some new lower legs and also clean up some other areas of the build in the process.
And, a few stud.io brainstorming sessions and bricklink orders later, this is what I ended up with
(One of the elbow spikes and the slizer feet on the lower legs are placeholders of the wrong colour because the proper ones weren’t available in any bricklink stores nearby. I’ll get them next time I order parts)
There are some minor colour changes all over the model, including the replacement of all red axles with black ones, and I filled in some unsightly gaps under the white shoulder panels that always bugged me, but the main event is of course the lower legs
I’m extremely pleased with this design, those knees and knee swivels are so incredibly stable and stiff, they are certainly not going anywhere any time soon.
I would like to give a big shout out to @Cordax for testing out my digital mockup of the leg design IRL before I ordered the parts to build it. Without you this update probably wouldn’t have happened
The thing I’m probably happy about the most is that despite all of the joints being very stiff and stable, there is still plenty of articulation, nothing is really unreasonably limited
And, for a good measure, here is a size comparison with my Helryx MOC , which is the closest thing to an Inika build scale wise that I have
In my opinion it’s a pretty decent scale for Marendar
Also, there is one last thing I wanted to talk about, which is kinda unrelated to Marendar, but still relevant because it has something to do with the bricklink order that I made to get the parts for it.
And that thing is modern Lego’s horrible quality control. One of the new mech joints I talked about came with a wall of extra plastic completely plugging up the pin hole in the middle of the piece, which prevented the part from being attached to just about anything, rendering it utterly useless.
Of course, I’ve been able to fix the part using a small knife, a screwdriver and a bit of patience, but the fact that I even had to go through that process is completely unacceptable in my opinion. If it had happened with a bootleg I wouldn’t mind, it’s actually something I would expect from a bootleg, but Lego is an expensive premium product, and its quality must match that standard.
The problem part in question
Unfortunately I didn’t take any pictures of it before I started working on rescuing this part, but that wall that I punched a hole through shouldn’t be there
So anyways, with that out the way, what do you all think of this build and the changes I’ve made?
I’m planning on entering it into the eventual Duckbricks Marendar contest, so I really want to know what people think of this design as a potential Marendar
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I said the same thing to my wife about the drywall 
man got his hands on a rare mismold and destroyed it?? 
bruh
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A rare mismold is something whimsical and goofy that you can use in a MOC in an interesting way 
This on the other hand is lame and embarrassing
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No, a rare mismold is a mismold that is rare
A funny rare mismold is something whimsucal and goofy that you can use in a MOC in an interesting way
And believe me, pieces that molded wrong - especially older ones - can be worth quite a bit of money 
although the piece you got is so new that I doubt it would’ve been worth that much maybe probably
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