Kahmalhi - Benevolent Hunter

[Deinonychus]

I finally got a chance to sit down with the bounty from the 5 Bionicle parts buckets I bought and managed to cook something up.

You ever sit down with LEGOs intending to build one thing and end up doing something totally different? I was trying to create some sort of vehicle-based Rahi or something, but ended up making essentially a big Toa...so anyhow...

Meet Kahmalhi....Kahmalhi is part of a Dark Hunter splinter group which is pretty much less then a dozen individuals with extraordinary fighting prowess and skill, but with just one-too many scruples for the Dark Hunter lifestyle, instead they hire themselves out much the same way, but only take contracts that are bent toward a good end, or at least not an obviously evil one. ;-)

I spent most of the evening building her...and by "building" I mean sitting on the floor scowling at a big pile of Bionicle parts. One step I made sure to take was to keep the bucket of silver "weapons" well out of the mix until I had her body pretty much set...that way I hopefully avoided over-acessorising her. Overall I'm pleased with how her frame turned out. Managed to work a lot of articulation into her and acceptable balance.

The only part I'm not completley pleased with is her head. The rest of her was done and the head was last. I really didn't want to just stick a mask on her, so I tried building up around the standard Toa Metru head piece. I rejected a bunch of designs (mostly ones with "hair") and settled on a sort of SCUBA/rebreather look. I think it kind of works for a blue character.

Her left arm is equipped with with flip-down dual-blasters and when not in use, store up against the arm.

Her right arm features a pair of claws that rotate around to present the longer blades during combat. Under normal circumstances, they flip back around to the shorter configuration.

And here she is with Gali for scale. In the end, I'd say, not bad for a night's work or Hockey watching and LEGO building

[Dino_Bot]

It's so pretty...I just love it.

[bigfatslob]

I always enjoy your works a great deal and this is no exception. I often experience the same drifting effect

in ending up w/ something quite different than what I originally intendended. You build well w/ the newer parts and I find it a little difficult myself. This is a powerful and detailed moc. I particulally appreciate the hoses/mouth design.

bfs

[chewie]

Ah, Deinonychus, this is absoloutly amazing. I love the overall look of her, and the two shades of blue look awesome. I can't start to begin how much trouble I would have trying to do this, mind you, I'm not huge into Bionicle. I still love the look of this. Amazing job.

(yes, I know, its my first post in a long time)

Congratulations on the MOC well done.