This item is a full-scale, unscripted model of a medieval counterweight trebuchet, designed from scratch with inspiration taken from several illustrations found online.
The base is 10mx10m and the trebuchet stands approximately
7m tall. It has 100 prims total, and I have strived to ensure that no major detail is omitted from the design while still maintaining a reasonable prim count that won't preclude it from being rezzed for display. It is complete with a reinforced joined timber frame, tapered throwing arm (with realistic dimensions and length ratios fore/aft of the axle), loading winch, sling, and stone ball projectile (non-firing).
This is meant to be used for display, as a novelty, or any other purpose you can think of for a massive, aesthetically pleasing medieval siege engine.
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Information about trebuchets:
From wikipedia:
"A trebuchet is a siege engine employed in the Middle Ages either to smash masonry walls or to throw projectiles over them. It is sometimes called a 'counterweight trebuchet' in order to distinguish it from an earlier weapon that has come to be called the 'traction trebuchet.'
The counterweight trebuchet appeared in both Christian and Muslim lands around the Mediterranean in the twelfth century. It could fling three hundred pound (140 kg) projectiles at high speeds into enemy fortifications. On occasion, disease-infected corpses were flung into cities in an attempt to infect the people under siege--a medieval variant of biological warfare. Trebuchets were invented in China in about the 4th century BC, came to Europe in the 6th century AD, and did not become obsolete until the 16th century, well after the introduction of gunpowder. Trebuchets were far more accurate than other medieval catapults. The trebuchet could launch projectiles a distance of over half a mile"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet
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Credits-
Design by: Laila Kumaki
Texturing and design revisions: Ciaran Flasheart
