Seize the Night

 

This is the prelim entry of Bio-Cup 2023. Wish me luck! I've been rather sluggish in posting the New Elementary Flowerfest models, but I've now written the remaining two to be ready; just had to take a break to fit this in before the deadline.

 

The theme for the preliminary round is Villain. A good, universal, character packed theme. It wasn't the easiest for me; I'm generally more into good guys. I always side with the good guys. Empire has cool gadgets and walkers, but I'm still in Rebel Alliance camp, ever day. But the entry had to be a villain! What does that mean? Antagonist, the opposing force of the protagonist? Or simply someone who's bad? I went to the second route and tried to capture few villain clichés in a cool way. As this is for the Cup, I mad a real constraction figure, lessening the amount of System a lot from what I usually do: The base is system, of course, as are the feet and the upper arms; but rest is based on the technic/bonkle system. It was refreshing, really. I've been doing a lot of architecture lately.

 

Blood red armour? Yeah! Blood red armour with an evil demon-face on the chest? Hell yeah! The armour face was my seed part; the pauldrons were going to be dark red Fenrakk (Skirmix?) heads, but they were way too big. The wheel hub was there from early on, I like its pattern with three 6x6 dishes underneath. The spiky KK2 armours deserved more loce, and Skrall armours are one of the nice, not over-designes bonkle parts I enjoy. Humorously I think that them, the knee spikes and the Y ball sockets are the only Bionicle-introduced parts here; but hey, there have been many constraction themes.

 

Aside the armour, pose was one of the main points here. She's a villain, but she's winning. She's like a villain and a protagonist. Forward! Knee up, sword in front and rising the flag. The flag pole was there from the early on, but I swapped it to the other hand and added the bat sword, meaning she can put some weight on the pole, making the pose feel more impressive. I chose a bright red hair as Tahu Star's sword looked to nice with its gradient, and the red eyelines separates the face from my usual ones. Seize the Night! Seize the Cup! Gonna be a busy summer again!

 

 -Eero.