...And This Isn't Another "Battle for the Gold Mask" Entry

[Nuju Metru]

Hey all!

It's weird to post two creations so soon after one another, this coming right on the heels of my Uhuraz revamp (my BftGM contest entry). But hey, the Thanksgiving weekend - which entailed being reunited with the bulk of my MOCing pieces - turned out to be a productive one for me. This is a smaller MOC than Uhuraz, but it's a wholly new creation, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Voila Soraya. She's a BZPower RPG character of BZP staff member GSR's, a feisty Dashi seamstress who, like her submarine bunkmate Nihi (a character who actually belongs to me), finds herself tangled up in an adventure she didn't necessarily sign up for. Soraya's known and adored by the BZPRPG player base for her proletariat charm, her unflappable honesty, and her gift for creating elaborate cocktail outfits for the nobles of her native island.

In my process of making a feasible Matoran-sized MOC, I took liberties with GSR's visual description of Soraya. I actually hardly adhered to his description (sorry, Nate!), opting instead to distinguish Soraya as herself primarily with the tools of her distinctive trade. How many BIONICLE seamstresses do you know? Exactly! Building a BIONICLE seamstress was a unique sort of challenge that I eagerly tackled. Creating sewing tools sized right for a Matoran - Soraya carries scissors, a set of needles, a smock, a magnifying glass for small stitches, a tape measure, several spools of thread, and a thimble (I couldn't find anywhere to put a pincushion...) - was the icing on the cake of this challenge; harder and more substantial a test for me was conceiving a stable, flexible, and aesthetically decent Matoran design that could support Soraya's psionic elemental color scheme.

As usual, the pictures here link to their larger versions on Flickr. If you'd like to look at the complete gallery, it can be found here.

Smile for the people now!

Thanks for looking! All comments and critiques are welcomed.

[Rayskull]

interesting knee and elbow design... hey, you have he new parts :)

[Voxovan]

As much as I like it, I have to say the neck is a bit too long. But other than that, this is a great MOC, I especially love all those cute accesories