[MOC] Monkie Kid -- The Iron Cutter

[Grey Magistrate]

My favorite Lego theme is Nexo Knights, but I really liked the styling of the Bull Clone Army of Monkie Kid's first wave.  That mix of black, hot pink, and neon orange is really striking.  So I couldn't resist pulling together a quick boat for the bulls, which I've dubbed the Iron Cutter for lack of any safe puns on the word "bull".  No story for this one (unlike my ongoing Nexo Knights tale, shameless plug here) but it was fun to build!

Here's the side profile, showing off the massive solar sail:

 

Here's a shot of the prow, with the distinctive gold ring just below.

 

The captain guides the vessel from here.  I set the bull banners in the back.

 

Here's the sci-fi rudder.  You can just see the storage hold under the captain's control station.

 

A hapless bull clone is sent up the rigging to inspect the solar sail.  I don't think robots know how to swim so he had better not fall off...

 

...though fortunately robots do not taste very good to sharks.

 

I set the solar sail on a turntable so it could be turned about sixty degrees in either direction.

 

And of course we have a couple of compact laser cannons in case they need to attack...uh, I mean, defend themselves from other vessels.

Edited May 31, 2021 by Grey Magistrate
Added the shark photo

[Lyichir]

This is a neat concept and you've nailed the color scheme and a lot of the aesthetic, but personally I'm not sure a solar sail like this makes the most sense for the Iron Bull Clan. It seems like the kind of feature that'd be a perfect fit for the medieval-inspired tech of Nexo Knights, but most of the Iron Bull Clan's vehicles are based on things like modern construction equipment, often with more dieselpunk features like oversized smokestacks and engines that'd create a lot of intimidating heat and smoke. So I'd expect a ship of theirs to be powered by a combustion engine more like a 20th century cargo ship or military vessel, or even by jet turbines like some more modern ships.

[Grey Magistrate]

Thanks, @Lyichir  Well, I hafta be honest, I've had that giant trans-orange piece for years and could never figure out what to do with it.  Then one day I thought, "It looks kinda like a sail," and I was off to the races.  Could be a case where a single piece has hijacked a design.  Same thing with the rudder -- I had set aside a bunch of black pieces and giant tires for engines, and then saw those neon-orange giant axe blades and figured they'd work instead.  And then I found those random black rigging pieces and suddenly I needed a trans-orange crow's nest.  And then this, and then that, and then...

[Lego David]

Wow, that is pretty cool! You pretty much nailed the color scheme and aesthetic of the Bull clones with this build. I find the inclusion of the Ice Planet 2002 Cockpit as sail particularly clever!