So these are my designs for the four Toa Hagah in preparation for the contest. I thought I would put these out here early so that anyone who wants to can take inspiration from them for their own MOCs. I really don’t mind if anyone want’s to take any designs from them or redesign and make them better, I just want the best MOCs to win and I probably don’t have enough parts to make the best haha. I tried to stay fairly consistent with what LEGO might have actually given us as sets at the time but I used a few parts from “the future” and a few different building techniques. I did a little Photoshop to make the eyes glow and put the backgrounds in but that’s all (except Kualus)
For Bomonga I wanted to reflect that he can grow so tall by stretching him a bit but also give him wider legs and feet to support himself. Also didn’t have enough masks/weapons in flat gold so I used a copper and pearl gold.
Gaaki was fairly standard, similar to Iruni, but different enough. I had to build her spear out of a shoulder pad and a Kanohi Kualsi, because I didn’t have enough unique gold weapons. gold and blue go nicely together I think.
Since Kualus is kind of odd and teaches Nuju how to talk to birds I figure I would try to do the most strange things with his design and really like how they turned out. (also I received the Nuju Metru set second hand and it had yellowed quite a bit so I tried doing some color grading on him to get him back to white)
Pouks I think is the most solid design, (no pun intended) and is similar to Norik but I enjoyed using the Whenua weapons as shoulder armor, I don’t think I’ve seen that before (probably has been somewhere I just don’t remember) Also, No Blue Pins!
