Kerosiinipelle

This is Kerosiinipelle, a character of Klaanon, and a gift built for the creator of the original character. Again, and like Keetongu last year, this is a System version of a Bionicle character; I've learned this concept irritates some Bionicle Revival kids so I have to make them.

Being a gift, this had to be sturdy enough to be handled someone who's not me. I also wanted to deliver this in pieces with instructions (and I did), so it could not be too tricky to built either. To be honest, my assistance was required once or twice, but I believe the issue was more in the unclear instruction design (made by me in Studio, of course) than the build itself. Anyhow, this smallish build packs a decent array of little techniques I've come up with; there are many hidden bars reinforcing the limbs, for example, so Kepe here can be posed without falling apart.

I've built Kerosiinipelle maybe two or three times before. The previous version from 2014 is here; I can't link the older versio(s) as Brickshelf is currently down. I must mention that I have huge respect for Wall of History for resurrecting it - I think Brickshelf holds the most imporant part of the history of this community, including plenty of my personal history as well. I've never been one to censor my older models, no matter how embarrasing they are. I made them as a kid.

I don't have many exciting remarks on this model, but I like to emphasis the head design. It emulates great Matatu, but in much smaller scale - earlier Bionicle sets had huge heads. Kerosiinipelle is a lightly built character, so having a smaller mask (or head) made sense. However, 3 studs wide felt huge and 2 studs wide way too small (miniland figure in an exo-suit). This has two bricks with a plate layer in-between, with some widening made with nexo shields - those pieces have the alluring slightly sloped sides, always so useful. The mad Lego maths mean that the 2x2 round tile with stud, turned 45 degrees, has its opposing antistuds in level with those bricks, one plate apart from each other. The same trick enables the classic floor technique I used almost ten years ago in my Winter Village Brewery. The math is not exact, but the tolerances allow it seamlessly.

-Eero.