Electra

[Arthuriel]

Beneath my digital MOCs I also built a rather ugly looking werewolf MOC with real bricks three years ago (I uploaded some pictures of it on RRU and Mocpages).

A reason for that problem was my lack of useful parts (or rather the lack of those ball joints, that are used in Bionicle and Hero Factory sets).

Three years later I wanted to draw people and wondered how to get the perpective and proportions right. Then I remembered, that I had a female wooden mannequin

for many years now, which I have never used. The main advantage was, that it actually helped me a bit with getting the perspective and proportions right and that it

stayed in its position. The disadvantage was the bad flexibility. After that I thought: "Hmm, I wonder, if I could build a better and more awesome looking version out of

Lego. I just need some newer sets to have more parts".

Well, here is the result: Electra. The flexibility is higher, but the stability is much lower (therefore I have to use acrylic varnish on the ball joints). I still had some part

restrictions, but compared with my 2011 MOC I made quite some progress. After four months and ~800 bricks the project is now (hopefully) finished (but getting

proportions etc. right was an annoying job) and it looks like I ended up with a gynoid, that you could put into a Sci-Fi setting (IN SPACE of course), instead of having

a simple lego figurine, but who needs boring stuff anyway? ^^

About the part restriction thing again: I used 9 different ball joint bricks for this MOC, but 6 of them were small ball joints and therefore I had only 3 different bricks for

the bigger ball joints left. I didn't/don't own any Bionicle or Hero Factory sets either, which made the job of building organic shapes harder.

And yes: Quite a few Mixel sets had to die for Electra ;)

[2015-10-15]: I uploaded a better picture on flickr a few days ago and I also added a logo:

Electra by Arthuriel Aurillion, auf Flickr

Edited October 14, 2015 by Arthuriel

[Xcod119]

Nice and original! Poor mixels :(

[Zerobricks]

She sure looks awesome! Those joints are really awesome, cant wait to get some myself. Nice details with small tyres on her arms (pin joinder?( and ribbed hose for hair (looks like braids).

[Arthuriel]

Thanks. Yeah, those Mixel parts are really useful, although I wished, that they would come in more different colors (like dark grey or black). The tires (inverted and non-inverted) were used, because they look less blocky than regular bricks and hide the technic parts of the arms (I also used black as the main color, because I had many bricks with this color). About the hair: I haven't really thought about the fact, what hair-style it exactly is. I was more like "Okay, what parts could I use for the hair... ...hmm, let's use these ones... ...yeah, looks nice" XD

Edited September 4, 2014 by Arthuriel

[GandalfofHoth]

And yes: Quite a few Mixel sets had to die for Electra ;)

Not Mixel sacrifices to bring forth Electra​! Great job, I love the hair and the overall silhouette, good job.

[Zerobricks]

How are you gonna clean the varnish when you take her apart?

[Arthuriel]

Since I put the varnish only onto the ball joints, it will wear off pretty quickly, when I move them (I tested it out) and I guess, that the rest can easily be removed by my finger nails.

In case, that there is still something left: I don't really care, because for the most part I will use the ball joints inside of a MOC.