my new toy could throw all your new toys

[Pyrate Jim]

Another trebuche design was to use a swinging weight. It had two advantages, first it kept the counterbalance closer to the center of gravity and it was less likely to tip when throwing, and secondly it was little more than a basket that you filled with rocks~ meaning you didn't have to carry the main weight to the battlefield with you.

Won't mean much in a toy version, but in a full size it can make a difference.

[Ratzo]

You get it all tuned properly and start flinging Squadbusters on the field.

[robdamanii]

We built one of these in high school physics. The thing stood about 8 feet tall, had a huge throwing arm, and used several big steel lock boxes full of ball bearings as weight.

We got it to throw a bowling ball about 200 yards at one point...

Man was the school pissed when they found craters in their practice football field.

[doc_Zox]

DBD had our Ballista "the Fist of Doom/Rohan" out at Predator PB in North Carolina this weekend

we were horking nerf vortexs out ~100 yards

heres some fun siege engines:

http://www.catapultkits.com/

[Ripper machinist]

I want to make a small desk top version now

Jim