Adult woman plays with children toys!//MOCs (and some photobash)

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Since getting into Bionicle, it's only natural to get into building with the technic pieces too. It's been really fun and relaxing to sit down and make something, even if goofy, and I got pretty alright at it. I have a few pieces irl but I have been mostly using Stud.io for the limitless factor of any amount, in any color, of pieces without the money-wasting and Correios nightmare.

I just thought I would share what I have at the moment!

1. Mata Matoran ""Revamp""

When I was first trying to understand Stud.io and when I didn't have any irl pieces. Pretty much The Kolhii Matoran build with a few extras. Fun at the time but really don't like them now.

[Also, first Kynai(blue)]

 

2. Hordika Matoran

More Matoran (I like the Matoran), self-explanatory, the Great Disk Matoran, but Hordika. It's fine, I tried to stick with a few pieces, but kept failing to properly apply the launcher to their backs. Apparently, the answer was very simple...

(Oldest to newest, from prototype, to when there was only one of the hordika masks to most recent.)

3. Unki

An OC, My idea for her is that she's from an intelligent Rahi species, that were made with terraforming in mind, that populated a now barren island, forcing what were small villages to break apart. She used to be a leader of one of the villagers and now scavenges the desert alone. She later on accidentally uncovers Ruhka. I made her IRL, then revamped her in Stud.io.

4. Ruhka, Toa of Stone.

He was built based on Unki's poster, I played safe and took inspiration from the Metru build, but I think I was able at making him his own thing. Very proud of his weapon. I still have little about him, but I was thinking around the lines of him and his team being deployed to Unki's island years prior (probably when the population was mostly Matoran) but because of a design flaw on his canister (ignore that canonically there were only 12 canisters ever made), and when it becomes lodged between the stone in the desert of the island, he was unfortunately forgotten. Until Unki uncovered him thousand of years after. He's a Veteran Toa, even if it doesn't look like it by the way he acts. He can be very judgemental, which makes his and Unki's first meeting a mess and somewhat antagonistic for Unki being a Rahi.

(Only later I realized he looks like a pseud Onewa because of the tan colors, I don't have a render, but now I changed his eyes back to green and his mask)

(+ART???!!??)

5. Kynai

Half OC half Self-MOC, I admit. Average Ga-Matoran, used to be a Crafter helper in her village on one random southern island. During a storm, her above-water hut becomes dislodged and lost with her inside, later crashing into a mysterious abandoned island, Making Kynai a castaway. That's when she builds her grappling hook to properly explore the island. She is a subpar engineer, but good enough, and eccentric for her time alone. because of her accident, she is afraid of thunderstorms. Later on, because of (insert silly fanfiction here) she becomes the Order's petty thief, though not an official member, just randomly called at times, so she doesn't know the whole deal. Just some renders, I didn't like her first design, so I made her simpler later.

(New is the one without the light)

6. Nerkha

Fe-Matoran engineer turned half-mercenary. Meticulous and easily irritable for the smallest things. What made him turn to this life was to look for schematics for a weapon that was stolen before he could build it. He could easily make new schematics for a better weapon but has a hard time leaving things behind. The truth is that what annoys him was someone getting away with it. Like others Fe-Matorans, he is paranoid and before locked himself in his workshop, but stands out for being tougher. Though hardened somewhat in his new life, he's still a nerd. He lost his arm after becoming a mercenary. Actually really happy with this build, I thought about him before sleep and build him the next day. I imagined him with a modified Pakari.

(Newest are the first ones, for some reason I made him with a copper mask at first but decided to go with the dark orange.)

7. Toa Mata Revamp (+Takanuva)

Stumbled by a video of someone's Toa revamp with the intention of making them more articulated, decided to take on the prompt and see what I can do. At first, I was going to do it like them and use the actual torso or a custom Stud.io-only piece, but then thought: "why not rebuild it from the ground up?", so I did! and then made the limbs by the same principle. I like the leg piece as legs, but I do think it looks a little long as Tahu's left arm but is good Nuva legs/arms. Lewa and Kopaka's left arms also is a little weird but liked it on Pohatu a lot. They become a Technic Liftarm mess, but I'm really happy about them. Favorite of my own MOC's to date.

(Prototypes)

(Final+Comparassion)

 

8. Last. WIP.
A work-in-progress MOC, I made him first IRL (no pictures though), but I can't figure out a proper head I like, I'll keep this one but idk. I based his colors on lizards, the idea for him right now is a ratty hermit forgotten Makuta, that "left" the brotherhood to concentrate on his own achievements. He's still occasionally called in, and reluctantly agrees. He has an outwardly pathetic personality and prefers to backstab as opposed to head-on confrontation. But is as powerful and dangerous as any other Makuta. He chose a lean form so he could literally slider through the narrow tunnels of his lair. Name, I was thinking something like Vhalluk or Vuhma.

 

That's it for now, it's really fun to come up with a MOC then finding yourself making a story to them. Since my motivation to actually drawings has been down, this was a good escape goat. Maybe I'll show more when I'm done with other wips or have new ideas. maybe make other versions of canon characters too. Good Night.