Cocoa

The gang’s all here

“Tahu” hails from a lava planet, where mountains are volcanoes and oceans are magma. Inspired by the planet’s hostile environment, the military of “Tahu’s” planet utilizes wrist-mounted flame-throwers and Plasma Swords as their signature weapons.

“Gali” is a water-breather from a world that is complete submerged in seawater. After achieving contact with extraterrestrial forces, the inhabitants invent breathing apparatuses that allows them to survive outside of water. They also use liquid metal for their gear, which they can shape into any weapon of their choice.

“Lewa” comes from a planet whose skyline is dominated by techno-jungles. Their natural habitat normally high-altitude, the natives of the planet mainly work with hover technology which takes the form of hoverboots and jetpacks fitted with thrusters for quickness. Along with this, the planet’s military engineers also specialize in air-based range weapons which fire high-caliber pockets of wind with critical results.

“Kopaka” is from a planet forever hounded by blizzards. While perfectly at home in low-temperature climates, the inhabitants require special refrigeration suits in order to survive outside of their natural environment. For battle, they arm themselves with freeze-guns and hard-light shields projected from wristbands.

“Pohatu” is from a desert planet best known for junkyard engineering. When his lower half was critically injured, “Pohatu” was selected for experimental battle-prosthetics. His new legs grant him great speed and agility without the hinderance of natural fatigue.

although what’s with the blatant reuse of the baby moana model

Shaman

The G2 Boxor

Once a former mining drone, Nuparu has outfitted this mech suit to fight off rogue Shadow creatures left after the departure of the Toa. Armed with punching feature design to shatter any of these Elemental Beasts’ corrupted masks, Nuparu is ready to fight to keep Okoto at peace.

A passion project brought to life. After countless redesigns and community feedback, I’m finally happy with this nostalgic mech suit. In case anyone is brave enough to try it, I’ve got instructions planned. The cockpit is designed for anyone with Protector feet to attach, but its open for modification. Comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Meanwhile, in Mexico:

I’ve gotten quite a few questions about how I did the moss and vines on Onua, so I guess it’s about time I did a tutorial on it.

These are our main materials for today:

Milliput and Tamiya putty for sculpting the vines, sandpaper and my trusty poking stick for getting the finer details in the vines and smoothing them out, and of course brushes for painting. But more importantly we have:

Elmer’s glue and some fine sand! This stuff is to create the texture for the moss.

Vines:

First we sculpt the vines on by making some putty snakes and laying them out in small branching patterns. Generally for something as small as a mask I don’t go too crazy on the branches, but depending on how big you want your vines to be you could go crazy. Remember though, the more branching you want on your vines, the smaller you’re going to have to sculpt them. After the initial vines are all dry, go back over with some sandpaper and a little more putty to smooth out all the seams. I use liquid putty to do this, but it can be done with the same putty you used to make the bulk of the vines, it just takes longer due to the drying time.

Moss:

After you’re done putting the vines on, you can move on the the moss. Apply some glue to your mask, creating larger splotches surrounded by smaller ones to emulate patches of moss. I use Elmer’s glue because it’s cheap and dries pretty slowly, allowing it to be spread around a fair amount, or wiped off if I make a mistake. After you apply each patch of glue, pour some sand over the mask, making sure all the glue is covered in sand, and gently shake excess sand off the mask. Make sure to use a tray to keep things clean and so you can recover excess sand to use later.

Painting:

For the moss we have three steps, an initial green base coat, a darker green wash to start to define the crevices of the moss, and a lighter green drybrushed onto the top to really make the moss pop. You can do the same thing with different colors as well to get different colors of moss, just keep to the middle base coat, dark wash, light drybrush formula.

As for the vines, those are just plain old brown.

Name: Vamil Species: Demon Sex: M Age: 6000 Years Old Alignment: Evil Occupation: Prince Eyes: Yellow Hair: None Skin: Black

Notable Aliases: Son of the Lord of Ashes, The Thunder King

Family: Synder (Father) Raza (Brother) Oshi (Sister) Weapons & Gear:

Thunder Blades

Abilities:

Static Crash: A large amount of electricity is discharged which can paralyze anyone caught in its path.

Lightning Dash: Vamil is incased in lightning Which  increases Vamil’s speed allowing him to move like a Blot of Lightning. He also can shock anyone who comes into contact with him.

Super Attack Thunder Proximity mines Vamil can create small proximity mines out of thunder that explode when someone gets close, Vamil can also stick to people