{"id":8134,"date":"2013-05-29T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=8134"},"modified":"2013-05-29T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:21:29","slug":"halo-mega-bloks-custom-mantis-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=8134","title":{"rendered":"Halo Mega Bloks Custom: Mantis Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with the previously posted Vehicle Bay, I wanted to redesign another set. While the Mantis Bay that Mega Bloks designed is nice, it&#8217;s not really game accurate. Not that mine is either. However, what you play the level Infinity in Halo 4&#8217;s campaign, you&#8217;ll find that the Mantis bays are a lot taller. Also, the Mantis does not need to contort to the position that Mega has you doing in their design. So with this in mind, I built a taller bay using only the pieces from the set. The Mantis itself is the exact same build.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8131\" alt=\"Custom Mantis bay\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay.jpg\" width=\"1005\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-600x386.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-465x300.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/a>Orthogonal views:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-orthogonal-views.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8132\" alt=\"Custom Mantis bay orthogonal views\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-orthogonal-views.jpg\" width=\"709\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-orthogonal-views.jpg 709w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-orthogonal-views-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-orthogonal-views-537x600.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>And finally the rear view with the Mantis in place. Note the ladder&#8217;s position.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-rear-view-wMantis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8133\" alt=\"Custom Mantis bay rear view w:Mantis\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-rear-view-wMantis.jpg\" width=\"734\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-rear-view-wMantis.jpg 734w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-rear-view-wMantis-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Custom-Mantis-bay-rear-view-wMantis-556x600.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is quite an easy custom to make and I think makes the set look better.<\/p>\n<p>Do you like the redesign versus the manufacturer&#8217;s design? Here&#8217;s that one:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6574\" style=\"width: 874px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-set-final-assembly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6574\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6574\" alt=\"Final set shot.\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-set-final-assembly.jpg\" width=\"864\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-set-final-assembly.jpg 864w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-set-final-assembly-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-set-final-assembly-600x447.jpg 600w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-set-final-assembly-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final set shot.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BTW, this isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve redesigned the Mantis Bay. Here is my first attempt from a few months ago:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6581\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-Redux-docking-station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6581\" alt=\"Redux Docking Station\" src=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-Redux-docking-station.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-Redux-docking-station.jpg 720w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-Redux-docking-station-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MB-UNSC-Mantis-Redux-docking-station-448x600.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Redux Docking Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with the previously posted Vehicle Bay, I wanted to redesign another set. While the Mantis Bay that Mega Bloks designed is nice, it&#8217;s not really game accurate. Not that mine is either. However, what you play the level Infinity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=8134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8134\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}