MOC: Torso Articulated Titan

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Waiting for the Heroes to arrive, I thought it would be a good idea to show some mocs I've done. First is a fairly old one which has stood against the passing of time.

A main feature of this Titan is the connection between the pelvis and the breast region, done by three ball-joint linkages. This enables the Titan to rotate and bend in the torso.

The hip region is reinforced with additional linkage much like the Tuma set. The shoulders are with double linkage too, but a bit different than what is seen in official sets.

Spike ball shooters are underneath each lower arm. I've used regular hands, although they may be slightly too small for a character this size.

In the right picture below the torso is twisted at a maximum. The two swords on the back are connected to the two outer linkages that connect pelvis and breast. That is why the swords point in strange directions when the torso twists.

The torso can bend quite a bit forward and backward, but not shown in any picture though.

The mask was the fourth I engineered back in 2007, after the two orange masks and the blue silver Vamprah mask. I really like the speedy appearence of this Axalara mask.

Hope you enjoyed this post, feel free to critizise my moc or ask questions.

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I always enjoy seeing your MOCs, because your style of MOCing is similar to actual set designs, with stable pose-ability that isn't often in larger MOCs.

I don't really like the smooth lime panels on the chest, which I don't think gives a good chest shape, and it doesn't really match the mechanical look of the other pieces. The Axalara Miru looks great here, but the visor and eye colour clash together a bit.

The dual Thornax launchers look very cool, but help in making the small hands look odd. I can't think of alternative hands that would work better though.

The waist articulation looks like it works well, and it's something I'm almost always guilty of not trying to add to my MOCs. Making the Av-Matoran arms could be black though, to help with layering of lime over black on the MOC. (If you were trying to layer the colours.)

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I always enjoy seeing your MOCs, because your style of MOCing is similar to actual set designs, with stable pose-ability that isn't often in larger MOCs.

Well I can't run away from the fact that I think in mocs as something that should only include legal builds from a LEGO Design Lab point of view.

I definately also want my mocs to be stable, and although this build would probably not pass some people's stability criteria, it is able to stand on one leg.

I don't really like the smooth lime panels on the chest, which I don't think gives a good chest shape, and it doesn't really match the mechanical look of the other pieces. The Axalara Miru looks great here, but the visor and eye colour clash together a bit.

The dual Thornax launchers look very cool, but help in making the small hands look odd. I can't think of alternative hands that would work better though.

In my eyes the panels give the character a kind of fashion look, but I see your point.

Yes the launchers results in very bulky underarms, and I guess I should have gone for some kind of custom built hands.

The waist articulation looks like it works well, and it's something I'm almost always guilty of not trying to add to my MOCs. Making the Av-Matoran arms could be black though, to help with layering of lime over black on the MOC. (If you were trying to layer the colours.)

The lime-green AV-Matoran arms connect the Matoran torso (pelvis) with black AV-Matoran arms. I guess a simple solution would be to swap the black and lime-greem arms. These two black and well hidden AV-Matoran arms, have the ball cup connected to the lime-green arm, while the black ball is the shoulder joint.

Thank you for comments. I got another Titan sized moc I will show later.

[Brickthing]

The lime-green AV-Matoran arms connect the Matoran torso (pelvis) with black AV-Matoran arms. I guess a simple solution would be to swap the black and lime-greem arms. These two black and well hidden AV-Matoran arms, have the ball cup connected to the lime-green arm, while the black ball is the shoulder joint.

Thank you for comments. I got another Titan sized moc I will show later.

Sorry, I meant to say that the waist articulating lime Av-matoran arms should be black as well, but I garbled my sentence.

I look forward to seeing it!

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Sorry, I meant to say that the waist articulating lime Av-matoran arms should be black as well, but I garbled my sentence.

No problem, I did understand that you wanted them in black, and not just move around with the colours.

Generally I just decide on a color scheme (2 or maybe even 3 colours) and then go ahead and combine them without much thought, often dictated by which parts I have in a specific colour.

Edited May 17, 2010 by Front