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My first project here... Trebuchet
Jan 13th, 2008 at 2:19pm
 
Ok, ok, I know you guys usually make things on a 1/1 scale (or at least large), but the fact is that I'm a scale modeller.
What the heckt is a scale modeller doing around here you probably think. Well since this is a forum about (amongst other things) slinging weaponry, and since a trebuchet is a slinging weapon, and since my scale replica will be a working one (at least I'll try make it working  Wink ), I thought you might allow me to show you what I'm building.

The scale of the machine is 1/25, the length is 36 cm and it's heighth will be around 22 cm.

But enough blabbering, if you are like any other crowd on any other forum, you'll probably wanna see some pics instead of text  Smiley

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The first pieces glued together...

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The base of the machine almost finished...

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And first vertical parts are installed.

So, that's what I have so far, this was about 2 or 3 hours of "work" and of course I'll keep you posted on the progress.

Cya later...
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Reply #1 - Jan 13th, 2008 at 3:31pm
 
this is grat give me pm's (personal messages) on progress Smiley
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Reply #2 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 12:23pm
 
cool. also the carpentry looks pretty uncomplicated (ie I could probably manage :-)
bandsaw and super glue looks like it'd do the job so far.

Definitely be interestedvin seeing the rest of the project - and maybe making one as well.
If you have one can you post a cutting list ?
cheers
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Reply #3 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 12:41pm
 
Thanks for the comments guys  Smiley

And it is now time for the next update.
After posting earlier, I made the swinging arm which I temporaly installed (without glueing the pieces together).
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While cutting and sanding the swinging arm, something was buggering me, but at the time I just couldn't put my finger on the "problem"... till I compared the handmade swinging arm to the rest of the machine, and than it struck me :
in the middle ages the beams wouldn't have been sawn with a machine, but hand-chopped from trees, hence not giving a smooth finish.  I now knew what to do.
So when I got home from work today I started toying around with my nr11 scalpel on the machine...

Before :
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After :
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And an overview of how she looks at the moment :
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For those interested ; after I finish this machine I'll draw a cutting list and make some kind of building instructions for it, but that'll take some time.
Oh and of course, being european, all measurements will be metric  Huh
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Reply #4 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 1:14pm
 
NOOOO!!! Not the evil metrics! lol...

Nice work! I like the roughing of the beams... That makes it look very authentic. I'll be excited to see the cutting list!
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Reply #5 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 3:21pm
 
What's wrong with metric system  Huh
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Reply #6 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 3:26pm
 
Nakki wrote on Jan 14th, 2008 at 3:21pm:
What's wrong with metric system  Huh

It's too logical for Americans  Wink

BTW Nakki, that latin in your sig, does that mean "wherewolf" ???
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Reply #7 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 3:43pm
 
Not a werewolf. It 's just an ordinary wolf. "A man is a wolf to another man." Mans worst enemy is another man so to speak.
Never really understood why cant Americans use metric or to learn to use it. I have learned inches and feets but miles are still a problem to me. If I remember right one spacecraft was lost due to the fact that americans used feets, inches and miles in software that was supposed to run in metric. It was sent on Mars and it crashed nicely to the surface. Grin
Really like that trebuchet. If I have some spare time and wood I'll try to copy that. Problem to start it would probalpy be that I'm too lazy and I don't have a place to make it due to the fact that my friend who has a "workshop" is in the army now.  Sad
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Reply #8 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 3:57pm
 
Nakki wrote on Jan 14th, 2008 at 3:43pm:
Not a werewolf. It 's just an ordinary wolf. "A man is a wolf to another man." Mans worst enemy is another man so to speak.
If I remember right one spacecraft was lost due to the fact that americans used feets, inches and miles in software that was supposed to run in metric. It was sent on Mars and it crashed nicely to the surface. Grin
Really like that trebuchet. If I have some spare time and wood I'll try to copy that. Problem to start it would probalpy be that I'm too lazy and I don't have a place to make it due to the fact that my friend who has a "workshop" is in the army now.  Sad


Actually I don't know about a spacecraft being lost, however I do know that some years ago a fully loaded passenger plane had to make an emergency landing on a outdated sports airstrip due to the fact that it hadn't a single drop of fuel left, that was right after the FAA switched from lbs to kg's the guys refuelling the plane assumed (wrongly) that there were 2 kg's to the pound instead of vica versa. (they made a movie about it)

Tnx for your comment on the trebuchet, I'm building mine right on the dinner table (my wife is a modeller too, so she doesn't mind).  And don't worry about being lazy, I sometimes (most of the time) have the same problem  Grin
However this is a really really fast built, I started it yesterday around noon, and now I'm at the stage that I have to stop constructing and start researching on how to paint the thing so that it looks realistic oak or walnut.
Batteries almost charged, so next set of pictures will arrive shortly...
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Reply #9 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 4:56pm
 
He must have been fired. Smiley
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Reply #10 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 7:10pm
 
Ummm... The "lol" that followed my metric comment indicated sarcasm...

I find myself one of the few Americans who prefers metrics. Day-to-day, I use our system, but it is flawed. I see no reason why we should start learning Spanish for no good reason, but can't change our system of measurement... I suppose it is a step in the direction of world-dominating communism...
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Reply #11 - Jan 14th, 2008 at 7:34pm
 
rofl  Cool

And what happened to the Trebuchet ?

This is how she looks at the moment...

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Reply #12 - Jan 15th, 2008 at 7:43pm
 
your having a glass of wine and using power tools at the same time dancooper? i think thats on the warning lable of most tools  Wink
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   That's dangerous  glug ahhhhh......... Zin Zin AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reply #14 - Jan 20th, 2008 at 1:00pm
 
did you build that free hand or did you have instructions?if you had instructions could you post them?because i want to make one
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