Hey all, I had been doing some messing around on Stud.io the last couple of days and wanted to try my hand at what the Toa Nuva’s standard forms in their Adaptive Armor would look like in “set” form.
I created these using parts in existing colours, and I also used the 2008 parts (as bad as they are) just to keep in line with the time the first Adaptive Armor sets came out. They also use the Inika builds to keep with this theme too.
I toyed around with the idea of making their limbs the same builds and colours as their actual Adaptive Armor sets, but it didn’t look right, especially with Galva’s custom shoulder pad pieces.
Despite the original Toa Nuva sets from 2002 having quite a few build differences, they all looked very uniform, especially with the silver armour plates, and I kinda wanted to keep that here… only, with a little bit of a twist; instead of just having silver shoulder pads and chestplates, they also have silver torsos, silver thigh armour, silver legs and silver feet. Onua and Pohatu also keep their hunchback looks, with a slightly modified build, and Lewa and Pohatu also keep the clear faceshield piece from the Phantoka sets, just because I personally like it. Gali also gains the faceshield piece to make her Kaukau Nuva look like it could actually work as a water breathing mask.
Due to the limitations of Stud.io, I have Lewa’s faceshield and Onua’s mask sitting off to the side because they don’t fit on the head like they should in the program itself. Due to real-world limitations, I wasn’t able to make Pohatu have more orange parts, so the only orange on him is in his mask. Designing weapons for these guys was a little bit of a mission too, so I decided to leave them out, especially with how picky I am about mixing '06 Pearl Light Gray and '02 Pearl Light Gray Flat Silver parts in a single build.
I know Greg also said that the Adaptive Armor can’t change colour, so all of the silver armour pieces on them, I can see relocating to other areas of their bodies to form things like Lewa’s Phantoka shoulder thrusters or Kopaka’s wings etc. But that’s just my headcanon.
For those unaware: the shoulder pads, chestplates and Kanohi were all designed by Galva_Bot and aren’t official pieces.
EDIT: Here’s a V2 that I made using the forearm, leg and armour pieces that the Mistika and Phantoka sets used. Tahu and Gali have also been given the alternate Piraka build I came up with.
I tend to turn collision detection off, the more you use