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Alex-Darkrai — Artakha
Published: 2011-07-29 12:50:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 8211; Favourites: 137; Downloads: 25
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This is my first time creating a MOC for a character from the actual bionicle universe. Artakha bears the mask of creation, for more information go to BIONICLE.WIKIA .Information about him from 'Reign of Shadows':
"He stood at least 10 feet tall." - I made him titan sized.
"His armor was gray-green ..." - The nearest lego color to gray-green is sand green, so I used a color sheme of sand green, dark turquoise, light gray and pearl light gray.
"... and covered in runes carved at the beginning of time." - the only part which actually has any 'runes' on it, is the Kraata canister lid , which I have used on the body armor.
"His mask was the most ornate anyone had ever seen ..." - therefore I made an own custom head. I also used a pearl light gray Avohkii for it, because Artakha was the one who created the Avohkii.
"The eye slits were angular and pointed ..." - therefore I used the dark turquiose Kakama (also to support the color sheme), because those eye slits are the most similiar ones to the description.
Other information:
His only weapon is a warhammer, which is from his forge.
Creators note:
I used a big turqiose sphere on his torso, because the sphere is a perfect geometrical object, so I thought it fits the being of all creation.
Yeah, that's about everything I got
Thanks to ~3rdeye88 , I wrote a bit more this time, because I took notes while building xD
If you know any information about him I missed, please tell me
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Comments: 85
That's some pretty damn awesome stuff right there.
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Wow Alex. I'm amazed at this piece. Its color scheme is so different and refreshing. The shape of, well everything is very uniquely yours. The use of the sphere in the back is my favorite part. I would have added some kind of functionality using that, but that's what I go for with my MOCs. I really need to try taking your approach with a MOC and building more for looks than functionality. It appears the shoe is on the other foot now as you are the one inspiring me to build better and differently. I think it's safe to say that you've surpassed me in MOCing skill my friend. This is truely a work of art.
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In addition to that, this guy is also stable! His body may look fancy, but everything holds pretty tightly together.
Hmpf yeah, I'm pretty focused on the looks of my creations.
It's weird to hear that from you. I don't really feel better than you, becuase your stuff is still more popular >.>"
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Popularity doesn't make something better at all. Look at pop music for example, its shit. That's definitely not a criteria you should use to base the quality of MOCs.
I really do wonder if you are a better MOCer than I am and its been on my mind lately because I want to know over all what makes one MOC better than another when on our levels? Its almost like the saying "comparing apples and oranges" cause our MOCs are pretty different. Plus you ca make a new MOC so much faster than I can. I've got to work at it for a little while, and then still tweak it afterwards to work out the bugs. How long did you work on Artakha?
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How long? Hmm, I started one afternoon and worked until midnight while watching some movies. The next day I finished the torso, build the legs and the arms, after that I made the warhammer. The next day I took pictures and assembled them. It's difficult to count it in hours >.>"
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Ah I see. Well it was a matter of days. It's probably gonna take me a week or so for the Innenrrad. That's if I work on it every day. I couldn't do that quality work that fast I don't think. Things like Balxoi and Wretched Stare are what I get done in a day. I built Matteo and Thorin in a day as well, but then had to go back and tweak the designs to get them better.
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I understand what you mean
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Yeah. You can work so much faster than I can and get the results you do. So in that way you're a better MOCer than I am.
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Good use of the Ben 10 Pieces, I can make out all of the parts in the Model, all but that BlueGreen pod looking piece on the back?
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Hm, the only parts I could think of are these ones: [link] [link] [link]
Tell me if one of them is the part you meant.
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The first Link, I have those other 2 pieces.
Thanks
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Simply amazing. The head fits perfectly, all the concepts of his design are genius, and you're not afraid to break the boundaries of normal proportions. Very good job, dear sir!
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Yeah, if we talk about the broadness, the proportions are a bit off, but for the height I even used a ruler and a picture of the human proportions to make it right >.>"
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Very good, though the legs should be far bigger to be scaled with the torso.
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Maybe, what do you think about the length of the legs and arms?
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Might want to work on making those in the same style as the torso. They need some more length and far more bulk.However, this is still a great build overall.
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More bulk could be right, but for the lengh I used a ruler and a sheet with the human proportions to make it right. How can it still look off? >.>"
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Don't know. Could be the shape is throwing me off. Sorry!
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You don't have to feel sorry ^^"
Something about my proportions seems to always look off xD
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I'd take your problem. My custom torsos either fall apart, don't work or don't look good.
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You just need some experience ^^
My first own torsos were failures too xD
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You know, it hardly makes sense replying to such old comments.
I don't have anything against it, but the context of those comments is already pretty outdated >.>"
I always have to look for what the context was xD
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I think you need to use inhuman proportions, is all. Do you know action man and barbie and that lot actually have legs and arms much longer than is humanly normal?
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Hmpf, very interesting
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very interesting, i have no knowlege of this character but he sure is cool.
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