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So recently I've been playing a non-warhammer related game and in my army list I can take a trebuchet. So I'm like "That's great! I've love to take some heavy fire power in my army!"

The problem is were do I find a trebuchet modle? The only two I know if is the one from the bretonian army, and the one from the D&D pre-painted mini's range. >_O

It needs to be able to fit on a 50mm base, some I'm in abit of a pickle to find something half decent to use that it's going to break the bank.... Any sujestions?

Scratch build it out of balsa and dowel. Catapults are easy to make.

Zvezda makes a pretty good looking trebuchet. $20 or so, I think.

winterdyne wrote:Scratch build it out of balsa and dowel. Catapults are easy to make.

Is their any free pattens I could print off and go off of?

infinite_array wrote:Zvezda makes a pretty good looking trebuchet. $20 or so, I think.

Thanks! That looks great, but would that fit on a 50mm round base? (Like the warmachine ones.) It's what the entry says it needs to be mounted on. >.<

http://www.stormthecastle.com/trebuchet/saladins-trebuchet/saladins-trebuchet-2.htm

http://www.stormthecastle.com/trebuchet/index.htm

Google is your friend.

More fun making a working one and actually doing some proper damage

heartserenade wrote:http://www.stormthecastle.com/trebuchet/saladins-trebuchet/saladins-trebuchet-2.htm

http://www.stormthecastle.com/trebuchet/index.htm

Google is your friend.

I'm way to lazy to make a working one... I just need one that will look correct-ish on the gameing table.
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And google is still your friend. I'm also making a trebuchet and a few minutes of searching on Google gave me at least 6 tutorials. you don't need to make them working: you just need to know the general appearance of them.

heartserenade wrote:And google is still your friend. I'm also making a trebuchet and a few minutes of searching on Google gave me at least 6 tutorials. you don't need to make them working: you just need to know the general appearance of them.

Google is not being my friend in all honesty. All I'm finding is guiding for making working ones. Like. Sure it's cool some dude just threw his car with one, but nothing helpfull for me....

Might as well turn safe search off just so see if someone made trebuchet porn at this point.

Soooo... you get guides on making working ones and this stops you from making non-working ones how exactly?

heartserenade wrote:Soooo... you get guides on making working ones and this stops you from making non-working ones how exactly?

I thought it was obvious?

Is their any free pattens I could print off and go off of?

Because I was looking for a simple pattern I could print off, trace onto basa wood, and cut out with a utility knife? I don't have the tools or the patients to mess around with building one that could work...

For the amount of time it would take to convert guides make them useless, because at that point I might as well start trying to draw the shape of the parts out my self and make something vaguely trebuchet shaped.

If their are guides for making rhinos out of plastic card, surely someone must of made one for Trebuchets. XD

Edit: Someone PM'd me something usefull.
^-^

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Paper-Trebuchet/

Yay!

I'm not sure how the four hours you took arguing this was any more productive than printing out a picture of a trebuchet to trace onto a sheet of balsa <.<

Though I guess you really wanted it scaled for you, as unit conversions/scaling are super hard.

Crackgnome wrote:I'm not sure how the four hours you took arguing this was any more productive than printing out a picture of a trebuchet to trace onto a sheet of balsa <.<

Though I guess you really wanted it scaled for you, as unit conversions/scaling are super hard.

huh? wut? Yes. Because I oviouesly watched this topic like a hawk for replies!
O_____O

In all honesty I posted the same question on a few fourms, and then painted minis well I waited for suggestions.
XD


like I mentioned, I couldn't really find any clear guides to quickly making some table top trebuchets in a couple of hours. I also could not really find any models, that would work. The best suggestion I've gotten so far was the one from the LotR game that I never realized existed.

Old Glory has a 25/28mm treb for $35

http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/proddetail.asp?prod=OGSE-02



Cheaper on Warweb, although I never bought from them

kenshin620 wrote:Old Glory has a 25/28mm treb for $35

http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/proddetail.asp?prod=OGSE-02



Cheaper on Warweb, although I never bought from them

Oh whao! That one is really nice! Thank you for the tip.
=)