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Greetings my friends! I'd like to take this bandwidth to announce that my
website has been updated and done over. It's bigger, it's better, it's purdy.
But don't take my word for it...
http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
Please, LMKWYT
--Anthony
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Wow. I had seen your stuff before and I like it a lot. Very nice. I
hadn't seen your war machines before, though. I Love them! Balista,
Catapult and Trebuchet! If I ever built a castle that I am satisfied with,
I hope the opposing army doesn't have access to your designs... :-)
-Andy Lynch
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From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
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In lugnet.castle, Andy Lynch writes:
> Wow. I had seen your stuff before and I like it a lot. Very nice. I
> hadn't seen your war machines before, though. I Love them! Balista,
> Catapult and Trebuchet! If I ever built a castle that I am satisfied with,
> I hope the opposing army doesn't have access to your designs... :-)
>
> -Andy Lynch
To be painfully honest, the balista and catapult are straight out of lego.
The balista is a modified version of set 6012. The catapult is
unchanged out of set 6059. However the Trebuchet is all of my own design.
I suppose I should go and build my own catapult, certainly i could make a
better model than this one, which has a range of 6 inches.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> To be painfully honest, the balista and catapult are straight out of lego.
> The balista is a modified version of set 6012. The catapult is
> unchanged out of set 6059. However the Trebuchet is all of my own design.
>
> I suppose I should go and build my own catapult, certainly i could make a
> better model than this one, which has a range of 6 inches.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > > http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
Ah. Sorry about that. I am a castle fan, but both of those sets happened
during my dark age, so I had never seen them before. I didn't realize that
Lego had made a catapult with a counterweight. All of the current ones that
I've seen have just a lever that you can "slam" on to make it work.
Thanks for clearing that up. ( Now that I'm embarrassed... )
I *do* still like your trebuchet though, and I will probably use it as a
basis when I go to build my own.
-Andy Lynch
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In lugnet.castle, Andy Lynch writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > To be painfully honest, the balista and catapult are straight out of lego.
> > The balista is a modified version of set 6012. The catapult is
> > unchanged out of set 6059. However the Trebuchet is all of my own design.
> >
> > I suppose I should go and build my own catapult, certainly i could make a
> > better model than this one, which has a range of 6 inches.
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > > > http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
>
> Ah. Sorry about that. I am a castle fan, but both of those sets happened
> during my dark age, so I had never seen them before. I didn't realize that
> Lego had made a catapult with a counterweight. All of the current ones that
> I've seen have just a lever that you can "slam" on to make it work.
>
> Thanks for clearing that up. ( Now that I'm embarrassed... )
Don't be, the catapult wasn't the main feature of its set, and I didn't know
about the balista being a set until 3 years after my friend Pat built one for
me.
>
> I *do* still like your trebuchet though, and I will probably use it as a
> basis when I go to build my own.
>
> -Andy Lynch
Thank you much, I really enjoyed building and testing it. It's a fun weapon.
It really does launch a 2 x 2 brick five feet. In a minifig scale, thats a
huge distance. Launching minifigs is even more fun, I get jollies seeing fight
knights (as i hated that series more than anything) go splat against a wall.
Unfotunately, without a real locking mechanism, its hard to load at the moment.
But it's so easy to aim. all you have to do is move the sling from one side
or the other and itll fly the direction you want it to.
And just in case anyone is wondering, yes, the Trebuchet is a historical siege
engine, it really did exist.
Have fun
--Anthony
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:06:41 GMT, "Andy Lynch"
<andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > To be painfully honest, the balista and catapult are straight out of lego.
> > The balista is a modified version of set 6012. The catapult is
> > unchanged out of set 6059. However the Trebuchet is all of my own design.
> >
> > I suppose I should go and build my own catapult, certainly i could make a
> > better model than this one, which has a range of 6 inches.
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Anthony Sava" <ajs0093@pop.tamu.edu>
> > > > http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
>
> Ah. Sorry about that. I am a castle fan, but both of those sets happened
> during my dark age, so I had never seen them before. I didn't realize that
> Lego had made a catapult with a counterweight. All of the current ones that
> I've seen have just a lever that you can "slam" on to make it work.
>
> Thanks for clearing that up. ( Now that I'm embarrassed... )
>
> I *do* still like your trebuchet though, and I will probably use it as a
> basis when I go to build my own.
>
> -Andy Lynch
If you want to get an idea of what LEGO has done in castle before,
take some time and search the Lugnet/Pause Database for "Castle"
it'll take a bit of time to load but should return all the different
known sets... errrmmm actually for the older series try the
"Fibblesnork LEGO Guide" available from the "new" www.Lugnet.com
page, just scroll down. About the only things that
Fibblesnork/Lugnet/Pause databases may be some of the promotional or
overseas sets (these would be mostly the newer ones if any are
missing).
Mike
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All other themes are just spare parts for Castle!
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I'd just like to dispell any rumors to the contrary, since ive been getting so
many emails about it.
Yes, almost every page of my site has new material on it, and four new pages
have been added, one of which is only accessable through the villians page.
I've also fixed a lot of type-os that i've been getting critizied on.
So there you go.
In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
> Greetings my friends! I'd like to take this bandwidth to announce that my
> website has been updated and done over. It's bigger, it's better, it's purdy.
> But don't take my word for it...
>
> http://www.geocities.com/savatheaggie/legohome.html
>
> Please, LMKWYT
--Anthony
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