Exo, Grand Titan mocs

[Front]

This is my first post on this forum, so any general comment about my post is welcomed, although I might introduce myself later on in another thread.

First picture show the Grand Titan (standard assembly), Crouched Titan and Flight Titan ready for battle.

Second photo is the three with cockpits opened for inspections. The Grand Titan is in a low position.

The Crouched Titan (middle, facing left) has the left armor mechanism skewed foreward, to allow the pilot to enter/exit. This mechanism consist of the black 5M beams, rotating in front of the pilots feets. The large red curved panel rotates about the other end of the black beam, and just beside that rotation point, the red sword rotates relative to the panel. These three-joint assembly does not fix firmly in any poosition, but is resting fine in the "closed-cockpit-position" with the sword pointing backwards. The curved red panels can be pointed a bit up or down in this position.

The light brick is activated by pushing the two black 4x1M beams hinged at the rear.

The Flight Titan (right, facing left), has one wing in normal position, and the other pointing upward in a "carrier-position". The wings can pitch too. The Flight Titan consist of the cockpit (including front landing gear) and the main body, linked together in a four joint mechanism, by the two black 5M beams and the two black 4x1M bent beams. That gives the craft a rather strange posture, where it can straighten while in flight, and bend slightly when it's landing, to bring the two red swords down to act as rear landing gear. The powering jet is linked to the cockpit through two joints, and can be angled as needed. The small black rear wings can be angled indepedently.

The Flight Titan has no light brick.

The third picture show the two mocs in side views, in front of the Grand Titan. The flight Titan has both wings raised.

I hope you like these, although the pictures do not show much of the details. Maybe I should add some more pictures, showing details.

Edited March 26, 2008 by Front

[DJ Force]

Yes, you definetly should post more pics! These MOCs seem to be really cool! I just cannot make out their overall appearances, their shapes and so on. It just looks like a pile of red parts, because they are so close together, and overlap each other.

Please make a pic of each MOC on their own!

[Front]

It just looks like a pile of red parts....

I could not have described it better myself ;-) Back to the photo dark room (yes I actually take these pictures in the dark, 20 second exposure and lighted by a flash light which I move around).

First the Flight Titan.

Front view, wings slightly raised.

Side view:

View from above:

[Front]

..... and here the Crouched Titan.

Top view, ready for battle:

Top view, opened:

Front View:

Side view, the Titan walking while shooting at a flying robot.

Please note these are some of my first exo-force mocs, got my first exo-set two weeks ago. I still need a lot of practice and studying of building technics.

Edited March 26, 2008 by Front

[DJ Force]

Muuuuch better, thanks a lot! :-)

You´ve got some nice designs going on there. I´m not too sure about the front "legs" on the Flight Titan, though. It looks like he stumbled and fell down. Better just remove them completely, I´d suggest.

KUTGW!

[zero1312]

The Crouchy looks cool, but the flyer needs some work. ;-)

[Front]

Thank you both for honest replies, that's what I was hoping for.

I have worked quite some on the Crouched Titan, but the previous attempts was combiners able to host up to 4 persons.

The Flight Titan was put together more or less in one go. It is a challenge though to make mocs limited to these rather simple sets.

I must say though that I have regarded Exo-Force (and Lego system generally) as less interesting, compared to Technic and Bionicle, before getting into Exo-Force some weeks ago. I am rather hooked now on these creations, combining system and technic elements, and deploying those wonderfull sturdy click joints (I have learnt that they were introduced by TLC with the Knights theme).

I regard the sets 7700-7704, I believe they were the first Exo to appear, to be some of the absolute best Exo ever (knowing that the theme have ended now).

The ball joints in never sets are a bit disapointing. They lead to limited poseability of bigger mocs, and the look of the ball joints rather conflict with the system elements in my opinion. Ball joints are great though in Bionicle.

[LuxorV]

Great alternates, Front *y* (and welcome to EB!).

I never came up with a good alternate for the Titan |-/ .

Do you plan to make alternates for some other EF sets, too 8-| ?

LuxorV

[Front]

Do you plan to make alternates for some other EF sets, too 8-| ?

LuxorV

Thank you LuxorV

I already have some alternates made for a couple of other sets, and plan to present them later. I might need to rethink some of the designs though.

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Very nice, I like the Crouching Titan the best. *y*

[Asuka]

The Crouched Titan´s nice and looks pretty good in different poses. Maybe the legs of your Flight one could look a less comical if positioned nearer to

the middle part of it. This could also gain more attention to the clear and neat structured cockpit.... :-)

[ReZourceman]

Your pictures look really nice, like a blue tv is on in the room.

Really nice MOCs.

[Sugar]

keeeeeeewl, I always like MOCs like this, like they are in a team.

You followed the GT's flow very well with the other two, and very creative too