These are gonna post in a weird order so bare with me here.
I’m just returning to the MOC game after a few years off from it, so I’m a little rusty, but this is the first guy I’ve made this year if you don’t count finishing up some old incomplete ideas. I didn’t have too much of an idea going into this what I wanted him to be (I just wanted to use that mask, and combine a lot of my favorite building strategies to refresh my mind), but I ultimately decided along the way that he may be a good representation of a Pre-banishment Mantax, which to my knowledge we haven’t gotten a good Cannon description of. To my knowledge I came up with the upper arm design on my own a few years ago, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I stole the idea from somewhere. Mantax has two points of articulation in each finger, 3 in each arm, one in each shoulder, 3 in each leg, two in the neck, and one in the waist. While many of the parts I used were more out of nessesity than want (gahlok-Kal shields in black would have been my preferred from the chest armor peices by the shoulders), none of his armor actually restricts any of his articulation. I personally don’t mind and sometimes even fancy blue pins and red axels, but for the sake of this message board I used every black pin and axel I could find in my collection. I’m not used to posting my Mocs anywhere so I don’t really know if I’m saying that standard stuff that people say but. That’s Mantax and this is me.
I’m not very sentimental about my builds, they’re usually day projects, maybe a week at most and I usually take them down once I’m satisfied with them