Big Cat and Little Catapult

[petardier]

I'm back from the big Lotusphere convention and I finally have time to post these.




The lynx was having another photogenic day.




What can I say? I'm fond of siege engines large and small. In a week or two, I should have a slightly larger one to post. Perhaps some day I'll have an estate large enough that I can own and use something a bit larger.

(added 1/30/06) You can get the plans here:
http://andypsionfan.users.btopenworld.com/treb01/treb01plans.html

Comments

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Would you mind pointing Tamidon, who owns a castle-shaped cake pan, at the directions on how to make a posicle trebuchet? I know she really wants to make one so she can use it to fling whipped cream the next time she makes a castle cake!

BTW, very cool!

Plan link added above

[petardier.livejournal.com]

This was actually the second of two that I made. The first had a spoon in place of the hook. To be specific, the spoon was epoxied to a tab of wood which slotted into the gap on the end of the arm. That gets pegged into place with a bit of toothpick so that it's removable.

These plans aren't 100% complete, but they're pretty good. In particular, the trough isn't explained at all. I winged it. A spoon-based model won't need that though.

Feel free to send her my email if she has further questions.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I have one of these (http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=453508), and lizo pointed me to your catapault since I intend someday to make 2 cakes, one chocolate and one plain, and use catapaults to lob marshmallows back and forth(and I had to tell feste_sylvain that he couldn't set them on fire first.

[(Anonymous)]

I think our friends, whose cake provided the inspiration for building the trebuchet, have the identical pan.

BTW, why not launch flaming marshmallows? What an excellent way to ignite a flambe! Once you've worked with the trebuchet a bit, the trajectory is very consistent.