I started this project last year, this was a concept that I originally had when I first got back into Bionicle in lockdown. The Toa Inika were my favorite wave of canister sets when they first released, there was something so cool about seeing our favorite Matoran turn into the heroes they idolized. Plus the expressive masks and light up weapons and huge frames were so revolutionary at the time.
As time went on, I found like many others to prefer the Metru build, and since getting back into MOC’ing I wanted to utilize it more, since as a teen I only really used Inika and Piraka frames. I’m not the best at original designs, but I’m very good at “adaptations.”
With all of these, there are still minor changes and alterations I make, again mostly to the weapons, but this is my favorite series to have worked on.
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I don’t think the shoulders need to be that wide, and I feel like the lower leg is far too long. Doing a custom leg would probably look a lot better. I do like Metru builds though.
They look very good, but I would suggest to remove the bushing in the shoulders and just attach the shoulder mod directly to the body because their shoulders are really wide.
To kind of address a common thing, the wide shoulders and bushing was a deliberate style choice, if you disagree that’s okay but I want to make it clear it was a design decision bc I like it lol. Same thing with the Inika legs, I love those lower legs and after playing around with different designs I kept coming back to this one. Just different strokes for different folks
I don’t see how the shoulder mod is illegal, since there’s no problem with the connection if you use the ball joint with the bar holes on both sides.
But then if you rotate the ball in the socket, the “flat side” of the ball will move, and you have the same collision as if you had just used the one-sided ball.
Of course, this can be fixed for either ball type by simply leaving a small gap between the shoulder socket part and upper arm.
