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In lugnet.castle, Andy Lynch writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > 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 my own catapult, certainly i could make a
> > better model than this one, which has a range of 6 inches.
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > > > http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
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> Ah. Sorry about that. I am a castle fan, but both of those sets happened
> 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 a lever that you can "slam" on to make it work.
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> Thanks for clearing that up. ( Now that I'm embarrassed... )
Don't be, the catapult wasn't the main feature of its set, and I didn't know
about the balista being a set until 3 years after my friend Pat built one for
me.
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> I *do* still like your trebuchet though, and I will probably use it as a
> basis when I go to build my own.
>
> -Andy Lynch
Thank you much, I really enjoyed building and testing it. It's a fun weapon.
It really does launch a 2 x 2 brick five feet. In a minifig scale, thats a
huge distance. Launching minifigs is even more fun, I get jollies seeing fight
knights (as i hated that series more than anything) go splat against a wall.
Unfotunately, without a real locking mechanism, its hard to load at the moment.
But it's so easy to aim. all you have to do is move the sling from one side
or the other and itll fly the direction you want it to.
And just in case anyone is wondering, yes, the Trebuchet is a historical siege
engine, it really did exist.
Have fun
--Anthony
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