"An affordable Trebuchet for 28mm fantasy gaming." Topic

My buddy showed up to our last Kings of War game with some new artillery made from prepainted Mage Knight pieces. They looked so good that I decided to take a somewhat similar tack for my Chaos Forces.
More pics, sourcing and process here: link
They're pre-painted (basic tabletop), compact enough for a ranked miniatures game, quite affordable and when rebased they look pretty good.

Did I mention I made 3 of these? Gotta love a good arms race!

Something tells me ordinarybass isn't going to tear up his nicely finished trebuchets… ;-)

That is nice,but I'm considering scratch building my own out of all the sprue left from my GW days.

I just sold one of those with one of my KoW armies :)

The wheels do work well by adding a bit of distance, and allowing the counterweight to settle down faster, on a fixed weight treb. On a hanging counterweight like the one you made, they're superfluous, the hanging structure does the job of the wheels. Then again, if they're in scale with the figures, they're light enough to be semi-portable.

Thanks for the info folks.

As to the size, as seen on the blog, these are smaller than an actual trebuchet would likely be, but I wanted something that could be based, maneuvered and transported easily in a miniatures case.

As for realism, it's good to know about the wheels and I actually appreciate you guys cluing me in, but I'm not fussed enough to change the models anytime soon to match historical realites. I'm fairly certain historical trebuchet didn't have cast iron demon-face fittings and probably weren't crewed by armies of beastmen and chaos warriors dedicated to the darkgods.
;-)

RAFM still has a really nice 25mm Trebuchet.

For some of us, he had us at 'pre-painted'.

However, have to say, even the slack I give, Mage Knight qualifies marginally.

Doug

Eccentric miniatures was working on a trebuchet. I hope they do it as their ballista is excellent!