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.