Author name: Kirk Jellum

  Big day on the Scorp today.  Garrett and Coulson framed out all of the arm sections and added skin to driver and passenger arm sections 1.  We had some difficulties with the skin and had to redo it once, part of the process of sometimes…  Tomorrow finish out adding skin to sections 1 and […]

We had a big day at the Bug House today.  We added the last section of the tail, finished up the air bag installation and attached the front arms for the first time. As I mentioned in my last post the air bags were a real problem on the Mantis, we had to go through

Here are some great pictures that David Baker took of the Mantis at E11.  Jeremy Smith spent quite a bit of time and updated the flame system recently.   We now have a hot water bath to help maintain tank pressure and we eliminated some of the plumbing restrictions. http://picasaweb.google.com/kirk.jellum/MantisEventPics#5632995148337490914

We cranked out a lot of work yesterday.  We have 2/3 of the tail up in the truck and welded the last hydraulic attach plates to the tail yesterday.  Monday we’ll add the third section of the tail to the truck, it will be so exciting to see the tail on the truck!    

I have waited way to long to post picture of the scorpion project, I have been waiting to get my website flushed out so that it’s presentable.  Here the pics are finally! http://mantisentertainment.com/pictures/ I also loaded up the Mantis build pictures from last year as well.  Enjoy