Supersonic Soaring Suit

 
This is my first MOC of 2025. It has been finished for two months already. The process here was very similar to Ronin Untasi a couple of years earlier: The torso is pretty old, being directly inspired by the Dots sets with those neon yellow pieces. It has a monster face in it, as some sort of reference to 1980s cartoon designs. However, the wing hat (that had only two wings until this January when I got some more) was part of completely another WIP, the main "seed" of this character: A flying person with open red jacket (referencing to bomber jackets) and white sneakers (that still wait their use). It also had these trans-orange claw piece as sunglasses, I'm very happy with them. The medium azure upper legs were part of this WIP and they continued into bare legs that ended up in the Roller Girl a year ago. The flying hat had originally semi-militaristic colour scheme of dark green and dark grey. This WIP character - full and standing but unfocused - stood or lay on my table in the previous Hervanta apartment for a year or so.

What I did for it after last Christmas was taking the fully separate torso wip and mixing it with the hat and the upper legs of the flying person WIP. The big rocket boots were built in January, as were the new arms. I replaced the dark green pieces with the Dreamzzz cat cycle's printed armour add-on, combining the magenta from the seed WIP to dark blue of the torso tablescrab. I aimed to overall futuristic feel with vibrant, dynamic colours.

The boots were the most major challenge, as the arms are quite simple (the rounded CCBS add-on is an universal solution). I wanted them to be bulky enough to fit both supercharged boosters and the actual legs (as this is not a robot). The silhouette is obviously similar to Dedofiktion Racing Unlimited Warpplasm Turbothrust Rocketsuit which has the same core concept without the wing hat. Here, the layered colour have a larger focus. Those boat hull pieces - from the crocodile car set - form the basic structure, along with the vibrant medium azure wheels from the cat bike. I like these rounded bulky shapes that still have certain aerodynamic vibes, like the engine intakes of jet planes. The round thrusters with their piping add another layer of partly visible mechanisms. This motif appears also in the figure's back. This theme is complimented with the more everyday qualities of the jogging pants with their sporty magenta pattern and the sunglasses akin to those that fast cyclists use.

So, this is the first MOC of 2025, but no worries - I have already three others shot and finished (one of them is 2024 though).

-Eero.

After the Gala

 

I built this for New Elementary's 3x3PO parts festival last December. After that we moved to a brand new apartment, which included some decoration and other kinds of "being busy" - hence no new models so far (I've finished one MOC this year). On the other hand, my building premises are better than ever, so I'll make new stuff before too long - no worries.

 The seed parts are from 75398 C-3PO - you can see all the new and rare parts I photographed via that link. The set has wonderful variety of new pearl gold pieces, and many of them are very fitting for organic builds. My MOC article on New Elementary was solely dedicated to this model, so I won't go to details here. In short, I wanted to make something luxuriously elegant, as suggested by the gold bricks. This meant a flowing golden party dress. And to make it different from my usually standing models, it's built into a relaxed, lounging pose. This enabled me to develop some new stuctural systems. It's quite impossible to build a garment like this that would adapt into sitting poses, so different torso structure is needed. This one has several joints along the spine line. On the other hand, I was able to build the legs shaping-first, as they don't have to support the weight.

The sofa is an old tablescrap, initially built to store masses of Brick Curved 8 x 2 x 2 (41766) after demolishing Grand Hotel Kudelma couple of years ago. I like the combination of pearl gold and dark red, refreshed by the green plants. There are sort of reduxes of 2025 Four Gentlemen botanicals I reviewed for New Elementary sligtly earlier. The goal was to establish atmosphere and to create colour harmonies. Integrating large-scale plants to my character models is certainly something I'll consider more often in the future.

As this MOC was already published a couple of weeks ago in New E, I've already received some feedback and questions, some concerning the hair. The bangs are reddish brown sausages, connected to the the plume holes of 1x1 round plates with bar (coffee filters) by their end pegs, whereas the bun has some ziplines tied into a knot.

-Eero.