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[Jareth]

Greetings travelers.  I must advise you to stay out of that forest.  It is inhabited by a most ferocious beast.



Most people only hunt them in the fall, when their green armor doesn't hide them.  We pay them a bounty and use the beast's legs to make polearms.  The centaurs capture them live as a totemic spirit.



Please forgive the crude background.  It is only meant to showcase the mantis.  More pictures can be found on my bricklink page.

http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=494639

[SirSven7]

I like the use of radios as claws, its an interesting build, well done

[Si-MOCs]

I wish there was an oscar for best use of Army Men accessories... cause you'd win :)

Very inventive way and great brick-built animal.

Though don't Mantises have antenna ?

[Evil Stu]

SI-mocs, on 22 February 2012 - 12:09 AM, said:

I wish there was an oscar for best use of Army Men accessories... cause you'd win :)

Very inventive way and great brick-built animal.

Though don't Mantises have antenna ?

If I recall correctly, the first step in hunting a giant mantis is a ride by attack to slice of it's antennae with a well timed swing of the sword. This then disorientates the creature, allowing the rest of the hunting party to move in to close quarters with a reduced risk of fatalities from the beasts deadly mandibles or lethal hind leg kicks  

Brilliant build, love the innovative parts use, and a great original concept all round!

[Flint]

Very original use of parts! I would not even know the name of most of them, but I like the radios and the gun-thingies for the back legs and the switch bases for eyes.

[Ash]

Love the Mantis. I also enjoy the old-school trees :)

[robuko]

Excellent build Jareth, the more I look at it the more I appreciate the simplicity, for instance the head could not really be done better at this scale.  Great parts use too.