This is it. It is 4 inches long. 4 inches wide including bow. I have'nt started doing the base. But the rubber bands work well. I also learned a nice way of twisting the bands so it could apply more torque I may finish it in another week or two.

That's looking really good. I bet I could 'entertain' my two housecats with that!

It can shoot a "bolt" to a distance of 28 inches. I'm still working on the balance of the bows. Can't get it to work consistently.

Gee... Posts like this make me think that maybe I need to fire my Trebuchet at a couple of cats before I submit a finished work! :-) Would anyone like to volunteer their cats? :-)

firing trebuchet to cats..no..no...never ..they are hi-tech equipped for revenge :-)


Yari...very nice work there.i am eager to see it finished and firing

Nice work...just inform the cats allover

Engin, that's what I call a cool cat thats dressed to kill! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Yari

Excellent model, looks like you put a lot of work into this. I saw the Scorpio (Ballista’s little brother) in action at a re-enactment a year or so ago, very mean piece of equipment.

I came across this site (sorry it wasn't earlier, it might of been of assistance) with technical data and drawings.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/6622/equipment.html

From the site:
"The ballista was the main artillery weapon of the army. It was a two armed torsion catapult which threw stones in a relatively flat trajectory."

If memory serves it also used to 'send' a very large bolt as seen in the opening scenes of Gladiator!

Thanks for the encouraging comments. I did base my model on the Scorpio plans thant I found on this link.
http://www.stormthewalls.dhs.org/Siege/Blueprints.htm

Nice little site. Their serves gets swamped though

Now all I need to make is the firing mechanism and painting it.


A bigger image of this file is in my Gallery