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Lalam24 — Tahu - Major Modifications Mini-Guide
Published: 2012-09-02 21:48:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 4998; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 60
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These are the areas which aren't as obvious when it comes to how they need to be modified. The rest are axle and pin pieces, which you should be able to figure out yourself.Related content
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This is a good solution, I hadn't thought of it before.
nicely done, lalam.
Also that wolf-knight guy is an idiot. Sorry you had to deal with him.
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why not use the original mask, as oppose to the cruddy stars one? it'd fit better, imo, and you wouldn't have to dick around with sanding stuff. i don't wanna sound like some of those purist kids down there though, this is really quite swell. i've attempted stuff like this, but you've far surpassed me, though partly because i only have like 12 of those floaty unattached toa ball and try to conserve them. i think i'll just have to copy some if this myself, its quite genius.
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Because the head is far too large. It does not fit well; the mask sits too low, and adjusting the ball piece by one stud simply puts it at a weird angle. The stars mask fits much better, even if you have to modify the head. The Stars is simply smaller and more sleek looking. Really, the original mask looked a bit odd to begin with. Had too much of a rounded appearance in comparison to the rest of his body.
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I could make that work with out modding it and modding parts like that is sorta like destroying a part of history in a way
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Yeah, no, you couldn't. You could make a halfassed head, but I wanted to use one of the basic ones. For the knees/elbows, absolutely not. The only way to do the knees and elbows is through trimming pieces, unless you want them to be sticking out an incredible distance.
I'm modifying pieces and making them into pieces Lego could've easily made. Why is it that once someone makes their own Lego, it's a problem, but when Lego makes new, simplified pieces, it's a glorious thing? The purist thing is really starting to get on my nerves.
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Actually, in terms of a different head...Why not try it with the original Tahu's head with a ball joint at the bottom? It might just work...then again, it might look a bit awkward...
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Proportioning issues. Go ahead and try it, I've tried it several times, and it either pushes the head too far forward or too far up.
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Hooray for modifying pieces! BZPower folk seem so against it, but it is integral to my MOCIng.
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sorry, its just nature for a life long bio fan to be like that, I for one go by the first gen so even if lego made the parts I wouldnt use them unless I had to and re did the legs with a few tweks it would work the same but with no mods and I dont hve ny troulbe with the metru hed and the mata masks exept for the stars tahu
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I'm sorry if I sound offensive, I've simply been dealing with this atrocious argument for a while now, and the only justification I seem to get from it is that people enjoy nostalgia more than quality. Oddly enough, I have little pride in these builds. To me, they're just legos. I consider sculpting action figures to be much higher in the professionalism scale, and these Bionicles were made simply for fun.
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I understand but think of it like this, with sculpting you can making it look the way you want first time but with lego you have to have more imagination and more incentive to make it work, if you make a sculpture from lego then you have real promes casue that means you can make almost anything from what you have and IV always seen it that way for years
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Or, one could think of the modifications as merely utilizing the medium of Lego to its highest potential. The part needed is within the piece Lego provides, as a statue exists within a block of marble. Treat Lego as both a subtractive and additive medium (woodworking, stained glass and metalsmithing are similar endeavors; modified parts coming together to create a unique and altogether better creation than what could be done with raw lumber, unshaped glass or metal ore). I think it takes more imagination to build with what does not yet exist than to build strictly with what one has been given.
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Yeah, but that's a mental puzzle. It's like playing beating someone at chess and thinking you've just made art. Artisan crafting is about the physical ability combined with the mental thought process. I can assure you that the ability to place bricks together is far from a difficult task.
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try making an RC car with a half ded motor and one that live and kicking and no way to get another one and trying to find the right ger ratio when you dont have the right ones, try that, IV been working on one for a yer now and so fare its goes well but its hates to go backwards
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My brother rebuilt his entire transmission (on a real car, by the way). He still doesn't consider it to be art.
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LEGO arguments! E-peen everywhere.
Seriously, if you don't like the guys work, why bother posting?
I mean, read over your posts. Not one mention of how he could improve it.
Anyway, thanks for posting it up Lalam, I was wondering what you had done to make those look so clean.
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art is the way you see it, its not defined any were is it?, art is what you see as somthing that makes you feel for it, for ME its transfomrers, alot of them have the perfect robot and alt but the colours are wrong but I would still see it as art for the way it make up for with the robot and the alt for the colour, rt is the way you see it
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Yes, it is. I never said it wasn't art, I was simply putting traditional sculpting above building with lego. If you had sculpted the lego pieces, then built with them, then I'd see that as sculpture.
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Err, sculpture**
I will no longer argue opinion.
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First gen was technic. This would imply that you wouldn't use any masks, at all. Go ahead and redo the legs. Again, I'd like to see what you come with. If it's the proper size, the proper color, the proper portioning in general, I'll post it here, and tell them to use that as an alternative. The intent of this was to make the best I could, and this is what I thought of. I've been a fan of Bionicle since it came out. I ordered the first edition Tahu from lego magazine before they were on shelves. That doesn't change the fact that new pieces can be made which are better for the appearance. I do not simply go off of a some magically pretentious rule that states "older is always better," but, rather, a rule that is: what looks better, is better.
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