Ronin Untasi

 This model was mostly made in a couple of days after coming back from our 3-week trip across Europe. Before the trip all of my free time for weeks had been used to finish the architecture MOCs for Pii Poo's Helsinki event, and the event took place straight after we came back home. I had longed for building some character MOCs for quite a while.

However, this is also highly recycling-oriented character. The torso was mostly about an year old, designed after Gozen as another try on non-historic female samurai armour. The centerpiece was a dragon-printed 4x4 curved wedge from Junior Ninjago set - such a novel but pretty part. The legs are about two years old and very close to the original tablescrap that ended up populating the odd'n'ends bin for quite a while. I combined them by adding some pretty Dark Azure armour plates on the legs, continuing the quarter tile pattern from below the belt and again connecting to the black bonds on the upper legs. I wanted to make a somewhat weird, quirky armour suit, without too much emphasis on practicality, save historical accuracy.

An another pivotal idea was the asymmentry of the armour. Both of the legs had originally (2 years ago) kneepads, but I had already (probably?) ditched the other one when I left them waiting. When rediscovering them to this built I continued this motif to the arms. I took the same scale mail pattern made with crown/eggshell pieces, but the right arm got only a bracer while the sword arm is fully armoured and completed with a shoulder pad. 

Lavender is a nice hair colour, but hard to use due to limited array of available parts. The hair thus went through many iterations, and I settled with a style that has a very short buzz-cut on the right side. It felt fitting to the asymmetrical theme and the proto-contemporary samuraipunk aesthetics. In addition, the ponytail and the fan-shaper earrings gave some movement to the build.  

-Eero.