Akamai and Wairuha (2015)

[Kalhiki]

Took me long enough to upload these, but here are my Akamai and Wairuha that I built in early 2015. Gotta say, I was (and still am) pretty happy with how they turned out.

Sorry for the slightly blurry picture.

Gallery when public: Features more pictures as well as in-depth looks at their builds if you want to make them yourself!

Little background:

I left out the gear functions since I was going more for looks and stability over playability. In terms of looks, I based their appearances mostly on the Mata Kaita in their color layouts and weapons. Unfortunately I couldn't give Akamai his club, so I just gave him backhand spikes of doom.

Their builds are roughly the same. The shoulders and arms are pretty much identical, structurally-speaking. Their pelvises as well since I wanted them to share similar skirt armor. On the whole, I think their similarities are a benefit as it ties the two together as a team.

Of course, I did take some artistic liberties. I made them much more armored up and almost Samurai-esque. Also gave them some extra flair: Wairuha has an extra set of blades stored on her (yes, I identify Wairuha as female) back, and Akamai uses Pohatu's boomerangs for some back wings (I guess he has a jetpack now?). you may also notice I left out Onua's purple and Lewa's yellow. They just clashed way too much with the rest of the colors.

If you're curious about Wairuha's feet, I used a similar design on another MoC. Actually quite stable. I just didn't want to give her goofy clown shoes, so I went with smaller, spike-toes.

That's about it. Really looking forward to doing the same with the 2016 Toa.

Edited July 9, 2016 by Kalhiki

[bacem]

Nice! This is very cool. I'm gonna take a look at the builds once the gallery goes public, as your akamai makes me want to revisit my akamai.