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| That great James. Siege weaponary always looks good in black. Fits well with the classic theme I may have to have a go at building this one. Have you tried using a cloth minifig cloak for the bag, you may have to modify ot slightly, but its still (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Count me as an interested party. On this note, I won't be at any upcoming Brickfest or Brickfest PDX, but a fun activity would be to have a catapult/trebuchet contest (with prizes for distance and accuracy) like TexLUG had at a meeting this (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle)
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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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| (...) A gravity-powered catapult is called a trebuchet. This site is a good place to start: (URL) are lots of links to other sites with plans, etc. I made a small one last summer, with a beam ~50cm long. It can fling a ~10g rock over 50m. Much fun! (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Hi, I actually got an experimental version to work after my original post. See this post: (URL) I had to change the sling and I used a minifig hand for the release pin :) It had just the right angle. I can throw a good five feet by adding even more (...) (21 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hi Ben, I think I will write something up about trebuchets for classic-castle.com if you are still interested. I would like to do some more experimentation first, so it might be a few days. James (21 years ago, 12-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Many thanks. I optimized the design for launch distance, and whatever points I got for repeat launch rate or accuracy were a bonus. I think Pat scored highest on launch rate, so the scores ended up fairly balanced. The videos came from the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) [...] (...) I suppose, since I got the cable modem, I'm less sensitive to low-bandwidth users than I was when I had dialup. I didn't want to shrink the pictures too much, or the text would be too small to read. (...) There is a small movie of (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-03, to lugnet.technic)
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| not trying to be rude here, but usually when i've got a question like this, the first thing i do is go to (URL) and do a search. here's what i found: (URL) what appears to be 5 different trebuchet designs. also, search lugnet itself. (URL) course (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I haven't made a trebuchet (it would be an interesting engineering challenge for relatively lightweight LEGO bricks) but I did make a Krana-pult that can launch a Krana over six feet. (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) James, this is awesome! If I were you, I'd write a How-To article about your experiences building these minifig scale trebuchets that could be posted on Classic-Castle and Lugnet. *wink* wink* Good job, none-the-less.. makes me want to build (...) (21 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hey Brian, Very nice trebuchet! I saw that show too and loved it. You can buy copies of it off of their website. Anyway, your rendition is very cool. I am thinking of building one too after all this talk about them. But now I will be a copycat! :) (...) (21 years ago, 17-May-03, to lugnet.castle)
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