*
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
April 25, 2024, 05:22:01 AM

Login with username, password and session length

Donate

We Appreciate Your Support

Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 1690590
  • Total Topics: 118339
  • Online Today: 840
  • Online Ever: 2235
  • (October 29, 2023, 01:32:45 AM)
Users Online

Recent

Author Topic: Siege Engines  (Read 3954 times)

Offline Eric the Shed

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4200
    • The Shed Wars Experience
Siege Engines
« on: October 13, 2013, 06:08:52 PM »
Hi Folks

Help Please - looking for siege engines - 28mm scale

esp Catapults, Trebuchets, Mangonels etc

I really wanted to get one of the Zvezda trebuchets but sadly they are no longer available...

Has anybody seen the gripping beast version - any piccies?

Cheers


Offline Cubs

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4926
  • "I simply cannot survive without beauty ..."
'Sir John ejaculated explosively, sitting up in his chair.' ... 'The Black Gang'.

Paul Cubbin Miniature Painter

Offline Dolmot

  • Mastermind
  • Posts: 1499
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2013, 06:22:31 PM »
RAFM is nominally 25mm and a bit old but they have plenty...
http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RAF&Category_Code=SE

Offline Paul

  • Mastermind
  • Posts: 1442
    • Paulīs Bods
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2013, 07:45:31 PM »
Greenline. Thier trebuchet is the same size as the Zvezda one
http://www.fredericus-rex.de/Green-Line-Gelaendebau/1-72-Belagerungsgeraete/Green-Line-Green-Line-Tr-buchet-1-72.html



Pics of the Zvezda, Greenline and a mini art trebuchet alongside each other
http://paulsbods.blogspot.de/2012/05/zvezda-trebuchet.html
I knew the truck didnīt want to hit me...it had dodge written on the front

Paulīs Bods Blog
Federation of Bodstonia

Offline fastolfrus

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 5250
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2013, 10:11:52 PM »
Warbases have some small bits - bolt throwers, ladders etc.
You could ask if they have plans to expand into anything bigger.
Gary, Glynis, and Alasdair (there are three of us, but we are too mean to have more than one login)

Offline NurgleHH

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • *
  • Posts: 3497
  • Spacelord
    • Victory Decision Vietnam
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2013, 07:24:45 AM »
Take a Look at Sally 4 the and old glory.
Victory Decision Vietnam here: leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=43264.0

Victory Decision Spacelords here: leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=68939.0

My pictures: http://pictures.dirknet.de/

Offline fastolfrus

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 5250
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2013, 01:51:15 PM »
Take a Look at Sally 4 the and old glory.

Sally 4 ?

Offline NurgleHH

  • Supporting Adventurer
  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • *
  • Posts: 3497
  • Spacelord
    • Victory Decision Vietnam
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2013, 05:23:43 PM »

Offline fastolfrus

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 5250
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2013, 06:41:15 PM »
Hadn't seen those before.
And based not far from here....

Offline bishop lord

  • Bookworm
  • Posts: 62
    • In the hall of the plastic king.
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2013, 06:56:10 PM »
I can highly recommend the Gripping Beast Treb.
I posted up some photos of one I painted up a goodly while back. Here's the link:-

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=58115.0

Hope that helps,
Jason
"If you've come to kill me, even these days it is not easy"

Offline Eric the Shed

  • Galactic Brain
  • Posts: 4200
    • The Shed Wars Experience
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2013, 10:13:32 PM »
You guys are stars...thank you

Will be adding some of this stuff to my xmas list

Offline painterman

  • Mad Scientist
  • Posts: 973
    • le lay emprins
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2013, 11:10:59 PM »
Games workshop have one, from their LotR range

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1390127a

maybe cheaper secondhand on ebay??
Simon.

Offline Constable Bertrand

  • Scatterbrained Genius
  • Posts: 3517
    • Make and Paint Blog
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2013, 11:44:21 AM »
Our own Sengennaru does a nice resin trebuchet. Send him a PM.

Offline Atheling

  • Elder God
  • Posts: 11936
    • Just Add Water Wargaming Blog
Re: Siege Engines
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2013, 05:50:06 PM »
The Beast's one is huge.... AN ENGINEERING TRIUMPH EVEN IN THAT SCALE  lol

Darell.

 

Related Topics

  Subject / Started by Replies Last post
4 Replies
1858 Views
Last post May 20, 2012, 10:44:11 AM
by Tacgnol
11 Replies
2498 Views
Last post June 04, 2014, 07:11:37 PM
by FramFramson
12 Replies
2745 Views
Last post December 30, 2014, 12:15:52 AM
by zizi666
3 Replies
18162 Views
Last post March 04, 2016, 09:05:27 PM
by Michi
9 Replies
1391 Views
Last post April 06, 2023, 06:59:53 AM
by Michi