MOC: WarFare

[vexorian]

So I had my suspicions about people just linking to galleries when the rules said 'thread' but since no one said anything about that I just did it to save time. Now that it turns out my suspicions were right, I have to make this thread:

WarFare

Well, I thought that in regards to negative concepts, war is at least around the top 3, bonus points because it is also stupid. "That would make a good villain!" I thought, so I did it.

(click the thumbnails to see larger versions)

I was looking to do something that resembles a soldier but is also deform (as it is supposed to be a Hero Factory villain), so I tried a strange build. I ended using a pair of Inika hips as shoulders by necessity, improvised it by turning them into weapons, I think that is going to be my motto - "When in doubt, make it a weapon". Then I thought a head was going to be easy by using kanohi creatively, but nothing I could try really worked that well. At the end I was shocked to find an actual use for the Hockey player masks... For some reason there is always tons of LEGO hockey pieces whenever I buy a large enough bulk of "Bionicle" parts, so I have many of them around.

Something that is not easy to see is that the torso and the backpack are connected by a black rubber band. The official reason is that it makes it look like a real backpack. The real reason is that both the sides of the torso and the backpack were very loose and used to move quite funny when you tried to pose WarFare, I was lucky to find such a good solution.

Edited October 13, 2010 by vexorian

[Aethersprite]

Right now my vote is going to this one. I'm not too keen on the legs, they're quite plain, but everything from the hip upwards is just badass. I LOVE the way you did the head and helmet, stroke of genius there. The weapons are also innovative, love how you improvised the Matau Hordika masks.