15 mm Mongol Artillery – Scratch Building Ideas

I’ve still to finish painting the artillery pieces I bought earlier this year but I was wondering about doing a human powered trebuchet and was looking for inspiration when I found Jeff Franz’s LittleHordes blog which contained this:



The photograph is so clear that it’s relatively easy to see how Jeff built the piece.  Jeff also provided some useful notes on the construction:

“I built this … piece … because .. all the ones I found were too large for the stand. I constructed it from square stock bass wood, wire, string, and paper. The sling arm is made from wire wrapped in string. The basket is made from a cut out piece of paper "under laid" with string and "glue wrapped" over a large rock.”

What’s amazing is that Jeff reported that, before the launching ropes were glued down, the model fired.  Well done Jeff a nice piece.