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| (...) Great minds think alike. I got the yen to build a castle scale trebuchet and finished it about 3 weeks ago. Took just 4 hours to build, but then took another week trying out all the variables to "optimize" the treb. One thing though, I did (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: A Knights Tale (Trebuchets)
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| Ok.. I'll try to go see it... and as long as you mentioned it... Has anyone built a working Trebuchet out of lego, in Castle scale... not large scale.. I'm going to attempt it this weekend, though I'm just wondering if there are any pics out there (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| About 5 months ago we had this entire discussion. I believe it was Anthony Sava who was nice enough to provide the PBS NOVA website: Here it is… all about Trebs and the medieval period. (URL) --==Richard==-- (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| Okay Castle junkies, If you have a chance to go and see a movie, I recommend this one. Knights Tale is witty, silly and absolutly entertaining. It has given me some great ideas for castle construction and stories also. I will soon be posting pics of (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I can come at this with a slightly more, uh, "unique" case: I build ships, with walls generally 8-14 bricks high and straight runs of 100-300 studs. I can't even dream of using 1xn unless I plan my subdivisions specifically to buttress (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: We don't need another hero-fig...
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| (...) Well, I think the Briktorians will reclaim that title...the snipers are back to practicing on flame-thrower Jar-Jars...and you know what that means for poor defenceless medics/engineers :) As to the entire mobilization idea...they're looking (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming)
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| Howdy, I sent this to Dan, but thought to share it with the group. There is a group of kids I work with who are all incredible people! Nolan, who is diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome and who creates some amazing stuff with LEGO and enjoys making 3D (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Howdy, This is a reply to LEGO Media's call for interesting and innovating students of LEGO. I thought to share here as well, as this is the kind of student I would like to see our classrooms produce. There is a group of kids I work with who are all (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.edu)
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| The New York Times had an article on TLC today focusing on the Bionicle line and TLC's positioning of this product as a form of "interactive" type "action figure" geared toward the 10 year old market - the age at which kids traditionally abandon (...) (24 years ago, 3-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| In lugnet.castle, Ed T. Toton III writes: <snip> (...) I agree, in general. In fact, your ideas are remarkably similar to some thoughts I had a few weeks ago, so I'll toss in mine too: A basic underlying precept I have is my belief that, if Lego (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: First post and LEGO wargaming questions
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| (...) Actually my Trebuchet is insipred by the real life siege engine. Despite popular belief, yes, the Trebuchet is a real historical weapon. Feel free to go to the PBS NOVA website and look up their special on the medieval siege, where men for the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) That Trebuchet is really cool. I assume it was inspired by Age of Empires 2. A side not about the cannon however. FYI This is straight from my history Professor. While rudimentry cannon were employed posibly as early as the 800s (though more (...) (24 years ago, 5-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Well, not to toot my own horn, but I have a few siege engines pictured on my website. Three of the four, admitedly, are directly from sets, but I do have a working Trebuchet on my site if you're interested in looking at it. I guarantee you (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Greetings Anthony, Thanks for your post and link concerning siege engines. If you don't mind I'm going to shamefully copy your ballistae design and mount it on each of the 4 turrets on my keep. I think I'll leave the trebuchet for another (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Massive Website Makeover and Update
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| (...) To be painfully honest, the balista and catapult are straight out of lego. The balista is a modified version of set 6012. The catapult is unchanged out of set 6059. However the Trebuchet is all of my own design. I suppose I should go and build (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| Wow. I had seen your stuff before and I like it a lot. Very nice. I hadn't seen your war machines before, though. I Love them! Balista, Catapult and Trebuchet! If I ever built a castle that I am satisfied with, I hope the opposing army doesn't have (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| | Re: Massive Website Makeover and Update
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu> (...) during my dark age, so I had never seen them before. I didn't realize that Lego had made a catapult with a counterweight. All of the current ones that I've seen have just (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| Anybody know if the 8277 Giant Model Set is still available? I haven't seen it lately (1 yr or more?). Need more Technic beams to try again to build a Lego trebuchet (counterweight catapult a la Northern Exposure, or the recent Nova on PBS). Thanks, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.technic)
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