USS Titan 3D pic????

[NiteTrek]

Professor Moriarty said:
So Sean, is there any chance of posting some pictures of the six-foot Titan model under construction??

Or until then, how about a completed 3D graphic? I didn't like the design at first but I can remember the fist time I saw the Excelsior. I thought it was the ugliest thing I've ever seen! How times have changed, I really like the Excelsior design now. Voyager, on the other hand was ugly the first time I saw it and is still ugly to this day. It looks too much like a huge frickin tablespoon flying through space.

Seeing the Titan in a "Wrath of Kahn" type movie would be a great way for her to win the hearts of many.

 

[jezor]

Titan Designer said:
John Eaves just contacted me and I guess they (CBS) are going to be doing a road tour with the Titan as the Center. So he is going to be making a 6ft.
Physical model of the Titan based off of my design. WOW!!!

Congrats, Sean! I guess that's to make up for what Geoffrey Thorne did to you on page 179 of Sword of Damocles. {ProfJonathan}

 

[Eagle]

I like the Titan design and would like to see it in a TV series :thumbsup:.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Superman said:
Okay, can someone take one of those renders and just flip the nacelles, just to see how they'd look?

Keep everything else, but change that, and I think I'd really come to like this ship tons more than I do now.

\S/

Way back when, after the conclusion of the "Titan Contest," I did a ship size comparison chart update to put onto my revised schematic view (remember that my "avatar" ship was my own entry into the contest). I renamed the ship class from Luna to Vega and the dropped the Titan name, and updated the schematic to show Sean's version.

I also added a "nacelles above" version into the chart, though. I removed the roll-bar and flipped the nacelles to the top.

Sean's version is fifth down on this size chart. My "reversed" version is the fourth down. (My own is the sixth down).

I'm a fan of the whole "modular construction" approach from the Pre-TNG-era stuff (both official and fannish). The fact that Sean borrowed certain design elements from other Trek ships never bothered me in the least... and if you put it side-by-side with an Akira, it doesn't look like an Akira but it DOES look like it's in the same family.

I subscribe to the "nacelles down is a frigate" concept, so I view Sean's design as a heavy frigate. The "nacelles up" version would then be a light cruiser variant.

 

[SeerSGB]

hmmm, with the nacelles flipped up I sorta of like the design a little more.

 

[Trek]

That does look interesting (although I thinko the nacelles would need little work to look right). It would make a good sister class.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Trek said:That does look interesting (although I thinko the nacelles would need little work to look right). It would make a good sister class.

Well, go up and find the thread about the "ISS Titan" in this same forum. The "mirror universe" version of this ship has different nacelles and a few other "alternate" details. I like the mirror-universe version nacelles much more than the "Akira-style" nacelles, personally, and I think that's been the general attitude (while I can't speak for Sean, I suspect he may even feel the same!).

If they ever DO make a model of this ship (which I'd like to see, personally), there will be MUCHO kit-bashing done with it, I'm certain.

 

[Titan Designer]

Lets just get the 6 footer done first, then they can start making
the smaller kits.

 

[Kaiser]

jezor said:

Titan Designer said:
John Eaves just contacted me and I guess they (CBS) are going to be doing a road tour with the Titan as the Center. So he is going to be making a 6ft.
Physical model of the Titan based off of my design. WOW!!!

Congrats, Sean! I guess that's to make up for what Geoffrey Thorne did to you on page 179 of Sword of Damocles. {ProfJonathan}

What happened?

I havent seen a copy of it yet and doesnt the New one have Titan Diagrams?

 

[Titan Designer]

I haven't recieved my copies yet either.

 

[SeerSGB]

Trek said:
That does look interesting (although I thinko the nacelles would need little work to look right). It would make a good sister class.

They nacelles look cocked at an angle to the pylons. But that might be a trick of perspective.

 

[USS Intrepid]

So how long until we start seeing deckplans?

 

[Cary L. Brown]

The nacelles ARE "cocked"... in the sense that they look like the Akira's nacelles (which are similarly cocked).

If memory serves, if you look at it from straight ahead, the pylons and nacelles form something of an arc, rather than being in straight lines.

 

[Titan Designer]

Here are some refresher images of the non-textured Titan's Mesh so you can see the nacells. Ellery is still working on the Textures

 

[SeerSGB]

See the angle doesn't look so "off" with the down sweep, but it stands out more with the upsweep pylons.

 

[Kaiser]

Those are freaking Awsome!! :thumbsup:

 

[Cary L. Brown]

SeerSGB said:
See the angle doesn't look so "off" with the down sweep, but it stands out more with the upsweep pylons.

Well, the "upswept" version is MY version, not Sean's... and was a quick-and-dirty Photoshop "tweak" and not anything resembling a "real" design effort.

I'm sure that if someone did a "real" inverted one, they'd have flipped the nacelles, too.

 

[Titan Designer]

I will make one in a couple of days. keep an eye in my I.S.S Titan and Ares Thread for it.

 

[Relayer]

I think it looks fine as is. The lower nacelles would allow for better firing arcs the dorsal phasers (It'd be better without the pod. Maybe a wartime variant would loose the pod?). Ventral arcs are already limited by the engineering section.

 

[Cary L. Brown]

Well, realize that one of the things that the judges for the Titan Contest were so adamant about was that the Titan was NOT a warship in any way. It's a "peace ship." So, all the launchers you see on Sean's ship's mission-module are probe-launchers and have no weapons-firing functionality at all.

I, personally, think that was a DUMB DUMB DUMB position to stake out (not Sean's fault, mind you!) but this was their stated position - the Titan is "Starfleet getting back into peaceful exploration and moving away from militarism."

On the other hand, the whole point of this ship was to "go where no man has gone before" and that's an inherently dangerous proposition. When I did my version, I set it up so that it had the ability to dump a massive burst of firepower and then to run like hell... it would not be a warship, per-se, but it could hit an enemy with enough damage to disable them and allow the ship to get away. This was one of the things that my design got criticized for, in fact... "too militaristic."

So, Sean's ship is a "peace ship" but it would probably be possible to swap out the mission module and strap on a warship-module in its place... again, if a kit ever becomes available, I think it's obvious that would be the first major "upgrade" you'd see most people put on it.