Catapult Kit Build and Fire

This is a video "thank you card" for a cool model catapult kit. I guess it's really an onegar - or maybe a torsion mangonel - but this is what I always thought of as a catapult.

After the intro/teaser, there is about 4 minutes of cut up video showing the build and then one minute firing at a domino tower.

This was filmed w/ a midline 1080p HD video recorder then edited in iMovie. I am disappointed with the digital artifacts and am sure that there is a way to avoid them - but I couldn't figure that out. So if you have suggestions, please leave them in the comments - thanks!

Finally, a big Thank You to Will and Judy for such a cool Christmas present - I am so taken with the torsion spring that I am going to build a small (10") ballista from the plans in the catapult book that you also gave to me. So thanks!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• catapult
• mangonel
• torsion
• spring
• onegar
• build
• kit
• domino

[mrperfectstuff]

what type of microwave did you use to record this vid?

[bodinbro]

lol i have that same book!!!! at 0:10

[godsbolt]

it sucks but its still cool ;)

[ALLFULER8]

were do un get tat kit?

[ArcadiaH69S]

Nicely done, I'd like very much to have a book that shows how to build siege weapons... I am trying to make some on my own as well, so far I have a small catapult and a bigger Onager, and I am also making a Trebuchet with Bral (it's like Meccano, steel bars, that kind of construction kits :D).

[epicfantasy]

That book is The Art of the Catapult by William Gurstelle

[macanaso1234]

woul u tell me the name of the blue book u got there? thanks

[seamanspencer]

onager dot com

[abz132890]

hey, i really need to buy this catapult pack for my physics course. can you please tell me where/how to get it? thanks.

[seamanspencer]

good job;)You are not alone in siege engine modelling