Yamamura's Well of Ideas

[Madaraki]

HELLO

WELCOME TO MY OWN CRAZY LITTLE AREA OF THIS FINE WEBSITE.

CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.

UNFORTUNATELY, I CANNOT STEER.



Anyway, I'm going to get right down to business here, starting the thread with a few things. First up, is the ultimate nerd moment.

Adult Swim watchers: Only the idea is based off the show. None of these MOCs are meant to look like the characters.

You may either be in awe, or do a facepalm.jpeg.

I will say this now. Even Dark Hunters have celebrities.


Band pic.
Left to right: Xaedrahk, Garkis, Draxea, Tirmasa, Irdak

Draxea -vocals
You probably remember her from the old boards. She's gotten a few updates since then. Longer hair, more chest, different arm, and a microphone. For the sake of Dark-Hunter-sadistic-ness, there is indeed a Toa Mata "skull" on the front of it.

Garkis -guitars
Yes, that is a bionicle-ized guitar. I couldn't figure how to pull off strings and whatnot, so I eventually figured I'd go with something that looked like a guitar. I kept the Hydraxon hand design with this mainly because I thought the individual/poseable fingers would look good on this sort of thing.

Irdak -bass
Yes, I know he looks like a misshapen, primitive throwback and whatnot. He's supposed to be the brute of the band. The bass was relatively easy to do, as I'd built it after the guitar. It is noticeably different though, and perhaps to reflect its owner's form, it's also fairly deadly looking, as though it could conceivably double as a club.

Tirmasa -drums
His build's somewhat similar to Garkis' as they used to be identical models at one point. Needless to say, I wanted them to look just a bit different. Yes, he is wearing a cannibalized Vezon head. As for the drums, I wound up using pieces of a black bag for covering the front/top of the things. If anyone knows of a lego piece that's flat, round, and as big as the current model, let me know.

Xaedrahk -keyboards
If you don't remember who this is, you fail. The keyboards here were a lot of fun. I wanted to do individual keys that somehow stood out from the rest of the set, but doing a lego-brick piano setup didn't quite appeal to me. Then came the idea of using Cordak darts for the keys. With Five Toa Mahri, Hydraxon, and Maxilos..there was no shortage of darts.

Coming up: More Dark Hunters than you can shake a Kanoka disc at.
Preview of Krulka

[slymaster15]

THAT"S AWESOME kutaw. I see you like Dethlock too.
My favorite is the last one. That dog is wicked!

[Madaraki]

Krulka isn't really a part of the "band" though...that's just a preview image of more pics to come.

So yes, there will be more of that little spiky cat.




EDIT: Topic Bump for Krulka here.

Krulka is the so-termed "zookeeper" of the Kikira, a fighter who seems to take more comfort in the company of rahi than his fellow hunters. Spikes line his armored form and he now possesses razor-sharp claws; modifications made for both the sake of vanity and signs of power among the beasts he calls friends.

Action shot.
Fairly sure you remember that from the preview pic beforehand.

Front
(Yes, I know a few of these feel fuzzy in areas. It was not my best picture-taking day.)
Anyway, I'm happy not just with thow this guy came out, but that I was able to actually use Hewkii Mahri's mask on an MOC that wasn't wider than Texas. I felt it blended very nicely with the Carapar armor on the torso. Oddly enough, the red/yellow/black color scheme works better than I thought it would at first.

Yes, that is an amputated Mask of Life bottom at his waist. The other half is on Tirmasa's head (above)

side
Yes, I know that looks like the Spear of Fusion. No, it is not the Spear of Fusion. Anyway, the horns on this thing were fairly tricky. I actually tried out about four positions for them before I settled on the backward-curving form seen here.

back
Armor wasn't working out there. It either made him too long from a side perspective, or felt diminished by the bulk of the frontal plating. In the end, I put a ton of dubing through there as sort of a "muscle enhancing steroid system a la Bane" thing. I actually love the way it came out.

Krekkowned
No, not all of my MOC pics are going to have them totally thrashing an already-canon character. Put another action shot here, and this time he's skooshing Krekka (whom I have also done an MOC redo on, as you will note the different arm structures.)

Oh yeah, and if you looked back at the preview pic, you'll notice that he's not alone.

This is Maukutua. He's basically the only Rahi that Krulka has to keep on a leash due to a rather feral nature brought about by his mutation. Yes, the name is a blend of "Mauka" and "Makuta".

Smile =D
The design for this is one that I've had for a long time now. It's basically two upside down Bohrok body pieces hooked to a Bahrag ankle joint with some sort of torso connection at the base (used to be two throwbot joint areas, now it's an Inika pelvis). I've found it's very good for beast-type MOCs as it sort of gives them that "front-powerful hunter feel.

Top view.
Longer than he looks, isn't he? I had a lot of fun with the spikes here. I didn't want to just line it with Gadunka teeth all around, so I went for using Nuparu claws, silver bohrok eyes, and other pieces.

Eckskyuse me, do u has a flavor?
Basic lulz shot. Had to do it. It's not evident here, but that jaw opens to a 90 degree angle.

Anyway, join us next time...until then; a preview shot Lady K has said is very sexy.