Built for the Bio-Cup preamble competition, the G1 Gauntlet.
The Viral Nektann, later designated as NBG-V7, was one of the Piraka’s Nektann robots on Voya Nui. For reasons unknown, this unit followed the Piraka and Toa into the black waters after the Mask of Life. After being abandoned by whatever drove it down there, a new viral host took over. Transforming it into a new deadly threat to spread its infection across the ocean.
Turnaround:
Designer’s Notes: Remind me to talk about it in the morning if you would like to know more.
Edit: Okay, so it’s no longer morning but work had more items than I was expecting.
Alright, so the prompt is simple - build something using just the G1 era of parts. That’s easy enough, just need to decide on something to build. . . That doesn’t use a bunch of old Technic panels because so many of mine are currently in use by the World of Throwbots display.
There was a G1 MOC I made at Brickworld in a Bionicle Monster Mash challenge. I was already planning on revamping that with my parts at home. But that might be too boring, I need to present something interesting. OH! How about those old Technic scorpions? I’ve been meaning to use them in a MOC.
So the plan was, and will still do eventually, to make a MOC using one of those scorpions as its head. But I figured I should start with some of the body plan first and maybe the legs. Though these old Bohrok parts would work well as legs if I attach two of them together. . . And then messing around with them resulted in four put together in the configuration you see here.
They weren’t going to work as legs anymore, but maybe a nice large mace. That could be fun if I could figure out what I wanted to add to fill in the hole space. And then I realized it could hold a Zamor Sphere and now it either looked like eyes or some fun body segment. Still could be an interesting mace with the Zamors, but head seemed more correct. Which would require the body of a very large figure, that I don’t have time to build with my other project.
Which with its shaping, if I wanted something smaller, left it as either being a virus or squid. Virus felt more right and added some guns for flavor as it seemed too simple without them.
Probably not going to take any flowers but it’s a start to get back into the Bio-Cup swing.
Comments and criticism are always welcomed.
