Trebuchet & Co. Ltd.

[Mixvs MinimaX]

Salve!

Some of my works from the last 2 years regarding medieval Trebuchets. All scratch and in 1/72 (exept one).




The Stone-thrower machine or Pierriere of the 11-15th cent.- the 1st step to the Trebuchet.
Meanwhile I brought the ropes with the help of water to hang around naturally. Built with wooden strips.



The Bricole of the 12th-15th Cent.- the 2nd step to the Trebuchet. Built without details at one evening. Meanwhile I brought the ropes with the help of water to hang around naturally.
Built with wooden strips.



The Mangonel of the 12th-15th Cent. - Rebuilding the Zvezda-kit. I added some beams (wooden strips) and scratched a new counterweight (100% plastic). Its scale is more 1/35. I want to build a 1/72 version. Maybe with a bogie wheel.








The Trebuchet of the 12th-16th Cent.- with moveable counterweight-under byzantine flags around 1161-81. The dio is named "The last restauration". Built without details in 4 days and with wooden strips. The details and the rebuilding of of the figures from Preisers Tank-soldiers to byzantine soldiers took of course more time. The knights are from Zvezda and were only a bit rebuilt.



The Couillard - The last step in the evolution of Trebuchets. In Service from 14th-16th Cent.
Built with wooden strips.

[Kekso]

This is awesome. I can't decide which one is better

[Ben90]

Very realistic look... great models!

[Alois Nebel]

Great models !!!!

V.

[panzerman]

Great chronology of the machine's development. Terrific job building and painting them all...masterful.
Bill.

[sberry]

Yes, a nice evolutionary series indeed, they all look excellent! The larger, later machines are of course the most impressive ones. But my favorite is the early traction trebuchet - this would be very nice for Early Byzantine scenarios, if available commercially.

[Arekmaximus]

Super!

[Mixvs MinimaX]

Thx!
Its really not a big thing to build one of these. You need mm-paper (for the angles), lime-wood (Lindenholz)-strips and the man with the masterplan. That's You. Lime wood has a nice surface which can treated very well with oil-coulors. By sanding the wood after an oil-wash (burned sienna ) the look above can be achieved.
I really think about to start building now the Mangonel in 1/72!




But without the ropes. The counterweight looks so heavy, than it would need human help.

Just found some background info:
https://medievalreader.wordpress.com/20 ... f-history/

[Valdemar]

Well I would definitely buy the last one... did you make them for sale? (The Couillard). I have never seen this before and looks great!

[dutchboyinohio]

Great post, really like the historical context provided. And I'm surprised nobody has mentioned yet that the figures accompanying the trebuchets are very well painted!

[Mixvs MinimaX]

Thanks. The figures are also rescuplted. Clothes, hairs, armor.

[Mixvs MinimaX]

@Valdemar: I thought about it, but I think its better for the one whos is interested in to scratch them with wood-strips, than to cast them. As I said: Its really not a big thing!
With Revell 314 and burnt sienna its possible to give non-wooden-material a wooden look, but wood is wood.

[Peter]

Fantastic models and painted figures! Go on I want to see more!

[Mixvs MinimaX]

Yesterday at the ISSC in Heiden I saw, that Fredericus rex has all that different kinds of siege machine in his shop.

http://www.shop2015.fredericus-rex.de/G ... gsgeraete/

[despertaferro]

Spectacular work!

[Martin]

Impressive work.
This work deserves a great bow.