Vailex(?)

Creative Content Lego Creations
1

Ok, so I’ve had a mock for a while, a generic build, I’ll admit, but its supposed to look super similar to one of my first and favorite toa, Jaller mahri (and I also don’t have a ton of parts at my disposal). In my head Ive always like the idea of the whole clone identity chrisis thing, so ideally of course this character is a clone of Jaller, the name is actually stupidly specific to the themes of being a clone of my favorite set from when I was about 8 years old.
For one, I first pronounced Jaller as Jailer, until I realized I was an idiot, but I liked the sound, secondly, as a 8~ year old (and to this day) I really like anything to do with a vortex, ideally tornadoes, idk why, they’re just cool, so take the first and last letters of vortex, and put them on Jailer, boom, Vailex, not very creative, kinda edgy, but you know what? These things were my only friends I can be edgy if I want.

Anywho, as if this wasn’t a mess already, I have an issue, see, he used to be black/silver and blue, hes made from whatever extra parts I could salvage, and it was either this or a mess of colors that don’t match at all, but I wanted to make certain parts purple, because it’s honestly a really nice color and frankly underused in the Bionicle line, so anything you see on him that’s orange, I want to make bright purple, but I don’t have any idea where I could get those parts, I’ve tried to find 3d printable parts but I can’t find any that both exactly what I’m looking for, and in the color I want.

Does anyone on here here happen to know a way I could get those parts (for a reasonable price too, I don’t wanna drop $100 on 9 parts.{ok but maybe})

Got all that?
Me neither.

IMG_20180806_035033758_LL.jpg2444×3258 2.04 MB

IMG_20180806_041512799_LL.jpg2444×3258 1.63 MB

25 Likes
2

From what I can tell there are two types of pieces on Vailex that are orange.

The 32174 hand pieces, and the 50898 upper arm/leg pieces.

Now 32174 came in one shade of purple in sets between 1999-2001.

Unfortunately 50898 was never released in any shade of purple. You’ll have to find a substitute for that.

Anywhozits, in my own experience, buying individual pieces works quite well on bricklink. No need to buy entire sets that contain the few pieces you actually need.

Just the 32174 can be bought for 0.01 euro a piece at the lowest priced suppliers.

Also, you may be interested in a metallic silver Hau to fit the other pieces’ colour better. The current one is dark gray, isn’t it?

All that said, I do believe the orange contrasts beautifully with the pearl dark gray and the silver pieces. Idk if purple would do it justice.

1 Like
3

Wow.
Thank you so much!
I was thinking the orange kinda looked good while messing with it, but I want to try out a few others, and I’m always looking to expand my collection of masks, so I’ll see about taking that up.
Thanks again for the input.

1 Like
4

Overall, it’s a pretty solid Inika build, and his color scheme adds some uniqueness to it, which I think will still be maintained with the substitution of orange for purple.The fact that he’s a clone of Jaller isn’t very apparant, except for the proportions and Hau, but that’s a story nitpick and not a problem with the moc itself. My two main issues are the fact that the nuva shoulder in his torso seems like it creates an odd bulge, and that there is a piece on one arm that is missing from the other.
Overall, nice job! It feels kind of good to see more “classic” mocs.

5

Thanks! And I realized after posting the shoulder piece fell off, it’s there, I promise.

6

Is there a shoulder piece missing? I meant under the forearms😛

7

Yeah, the black piece, idk why it wasn’t there, but I put one there.

8

For an Inika build, this is extremely unique imo. Good work.

1 Like
9

I like this mocs color scheme already, but purple can look good as well. I think its a fairly solid inika build. What it could use is a blaster or cannon for a weapon in my opinion. Hope the progress goes well on the moc and the only other advise is to keep the balence you already have with the pieces and colors. Good job :+1:.

10

If you can deal with only te hands being purple, then you won’t have to print any parts. Also, I you don’t mind having different colors of purple, you could use hero factory shells as purple armor but personally I REALLY like the orange… It suits the whole tornado thing but I can also understand the nostalgic feel you have.