Figured while taking pictures of my Artakha, I might as well finally take pictures of my Toa Nidhiki MOC. So here you go:
Poseability:
He can do an one-handed handstand.
Accurate Inika size, but full custom build. If you wonder why the neck is built like it is - I think it kinda works, but more importantly, since canonically Nidhiki wears a green mask, and I don’t paint parts or use 3D prints, the only alternative would be a custom head. And for one of those I’d need the neck socket to be located deeper. So this was the original plan. Only turns out there’s not a lot of small dark green parts to work with… so silver mask it was.
What else is there to say - I kinda was inspired to build this MOC after reading some of the story material again where Nidhiki appears as a Toa. He’s actually a quite interesting character. With this MOC I wanted to represent a Nidhiki that has something in common with his mutated form: I tried to get this across via thin limbs and the colour distribution.
Next are planned a matching Tuyet and Lhikan. And then… potentially more of the Toa Mangai? Maybe I’ll aslo at some point update this Nidhiki with a bit of custom cloth.
But anyways, C&C as always appreciated!
Update for current reasons:
Studio file
And because by now he has some friends, just for the looks:
