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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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| | 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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| (...) 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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| 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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| 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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| | Re: LEGO Cool Kids - looking for innovative kids
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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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| (...) 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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| | Lego Trebuchet Sale + new instructions
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| OK after much thought, I decided to make the instructions for the Lego Trebuchet as low as possible to be more affordable. Also, I had found a tough time finding material for the pouch so I am going to add 2 leather scrap pieces to the instructions (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Hi David, I recently saw a documentary on Trebuchet on The Learning Channel. They were mentionning (and they proved it) the range is greatly improved if the trebuchet is mounted on wheels. You may want to try that. It should give you an extra (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jul-01, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: A Knights Tale (Trebuchets)
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| Theyv'e got a trebuchet in the grounds of Caerphilly Castle, down the road from my house (along with a ballista (Arbalist) and Mangonel) They fire it into the moat and the shockwave from the stones kills lots of fish I dont think you'd get a heavy (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Yup, I saw that one too. Built a trebuchet about 5 or 6 months ago. It's in castle scale and throws lego bricks more than 5 feet in ours. It can be found in my War Machines section of my site. (URL) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) The boat weights should suffice for a fixed weight trebuchet, that is how I plan to do it. Mookie will prolly finish hers before I finish mine, since I have a lot on my plate at the moment. :\ Jeff (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: A Knights Tale (Trebuchets)
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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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