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blogged: Made using hand dyed recycled blankets. robynefmelia.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/uzbeki-revamp.html
This is a creation I’ve been working on for quite some time, ever since the Ziontyro released these glorious custom Kraahkan Kanohi. Almost an entire year in the making!
8593 Makuta has always been a set that was near and dear to my heart, though a figure that was very quickly superseded by larger titan builds. With this revamp, my objective was to restore some of the lost height and articulation, so he can stand tall against the other titans of the BIONICLE line.
The legs in particular draw inspiration from the design of @ibukkey00 while much of the upper body design was created by @fnezj, who gave me many helpful tips during the build process.
Please let me know what you think of this creation with a thoughtful comment below!
Hi, just a little sign of life from me^^. I'm really busy right now, I have found a job, so I'm working full time now. Also I'm in the middle of moving to another city. Most of my dolls and supplies are packed away and I don't have much free time anyway right now. I'm working on a little modding / face-up project now and then, but I don't know when I will finish it, or when I come back to my dolls in a regular scheme.
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So, I'm happy I can show my newest BJD purchase at least: a wonderful Supia Eunice head who replaced my LLT Edria head as Severine^^
The lounge in Pauley Hall got all-new furniture, two televisions, two ping-pong tables, and a pool table.
So yeah, Noah was a pretty important character to me back when I was 16 and writing dumb OC fic. Though to be fair, I mainly saw him as an extension of Kiryna, my Japanese Momoko doll since they (still) are the most expensive 1/6th figures I’ve spent on them separately, yet happen to have ultra awkward collector doll bodies and work really cutely as a couple, since Noah had one of the tallest bodies for an adult 1/6th figure while Kiryna has one of the smaller adult female bodies on this scale.
I’m really proud of being able to finally get a hunky looking face out of that awkward sculpt and haircut, and I’m finally getting my money’s worth heh.
This is a creation I’ve been working on for quite some time, ever since the Ziontyro released these glorious custom Kraahkan Kanohi. Almost an entire year in the making!
8593 Makuta has always been a set that was near and dear to my heart, though a figure that was very quickly superseded by larger titan builds. With this revamp, my objective was to restore some of the lost height and articulation, so he can stand tall against the other titans of the BIONICLE line.
The legs in particular draw inspiration from the design of @ibukkey00 while much of the upper body design was created by @fnezj, who gave me many helpful tips during the build process.
Please let me know what you think of this creation with a thoughtful comment below!
But it turns out I needn't have bothered marking, as they hit exactly at the height of the center (now top) side support.
Here you can also see I ran into a bit of splintering on the corner as I finished sawing through the rail - Ooops. I guess this teaches me that next time I saw something I need to do a better job of supporting the piece being cut off.
A true departure from the classical style of ice villains, Pridak was an incredibly divisive set when originally released in 2007, and condemned as one of the weaker Barraki designs. Abstract in frame, he was one of several Barraki to experiment with a more fluid design and set designer Brian Ellis’ recent YouTube video has brought some insight into the complicated design process that led to his conceptualization.
Stylized as a shark-piranha hybrid, Pridak was originally intended to have a double-jointed torso, though his design was simplified to accommodate the bloated parts budget of later 2007 sets. The end result was a single Hordika-neck joint propping up two Vahki torsos, which left a great deal to be desired. Unfortunately, this meant that the design also strayed some distance from Brian's original intentions for the figure.
With this revamp, I’ve endeavored to build on the original design intended for Pridak, with my own spin. I’ve added smooth Inika armor plating with red spikes for that shark motif and have even reinforced his legs with period-appropriate TECHNIC links, for the illusion of emaciated muscle.
This was a very fun project to set myself: honor the original design as though there’d been unlimited budget. This isn’t a far cry from my usual ‘simplistic’ design style and I hope I’ve done Pridak some justice by presenting a MOC that could’ve been an official set!
With the addition of Piraka legs and a piston added to his chest, Pridak is now living up to his fullest potential as the leader of the Barraki!
By the time I drilled through the 20" side unit and into/through the 12" one (shown here), you can see I wasn't managing to stay quite perpendicular. But thankfully I didn't drift too far off-center.
Here are the two IVAR units, bolted together, and with a shelf added to the 20" unit to complete the desktop. But you can see that even though I got the shortest 20" IVAR units that IKEA offers, they were still taller than needed, giving the desk a study carrel effect.
This MOC.....it's been done and photographed since months ago. The day that I got my braces to be exact (one week before school started). I kept saying that I would post it once I edited the background, but that clearly didn't happen.
As you can see, this revamp can be made into it's Nuva form by simply adding some armor. This is probably the fastest Bionicle MOC that I have build, only taking a couple hours in one day. I'm really happy how it turned out, there are some things that I would like to improve, but I don't feel that they're that important to fix anytime soon
Here's what you were waiting for Kamil Z, who I kept promising that I would post this picture soon.
Then there was my workbench. Which you probably have a hard time even identifying as such, as in this photo it's buried under the big piece of green plastic, and other assorted crap, in the front left corner.
The workbench actually folds up so it can be stowed away when not in use. But I didn't have any place to stow it, so it was always out. So between the piles of crap on my desk… and workbench… oh, and also my photo frame in the back there… I couldn't even get to my bookshelves.
Was getting kind of dissatisfied with my Spiritdoll Snowdrop Janne, so I put her head on a Doll Leaves body. (It's a boy body and I just can't decide if i like her more as a girl or as a boy, goddamnit.)
She's wearing an old Spite'n'Malice wig, which I cut mercilessly. It was the first wig I've ever cut and I kind of like the result xD. Fur is so much easier to cut than fibre.
Also: I really don't like the company face-up D: ... there are spots everywhere, the lashes are coming off and I don't like the way they painted her lips. at all.