Sholto Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 (edited) What's better than a bunch of green hillbillies drinking moonshine and herding pigs? Green hillbillies launching explosive pigs using bayou-built siege engines Since there is no Pigapult model (yet), I came up with this. I considered a trebuchet first, and then a Roman-style catapult, but this felt to me like what Gremlins would come up with. A giant swamp slingshot. The user ratchets the seat back with the lever and, when he's ready to go, janks the lever out and - wooooof! - off he goes! I will try and get it painted over the weekend. There's Ophelia, for scale. The bases are Black Cat Swamp Bases. I got the inspiration for using plasticard to make wood from this video - [ame] [/ame] Scoring strips of plasticard with a razorsaw is a wonderful idea, and produces quick and effective results. You can make the wood look properly bayou by cutting the strips unevenly, trimming the edges unevenly and cutting notches and splits in the ends. I tried string for the rope, but it was too large, so I stripped some braided wire, twisted that and used it. Superglue holds it in place. The bungee cord is a simple strip of precut, thin plasticard. Edited November 20, 2010 by Sholto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimeLapse Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 Koolness, Cant wait to see it painted up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koali Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 Poorly its has the wrong Basesize... the Pult is on 30mm Bases as written in the Book... But it looks very cool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbdrand Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 Poorly its has the wrong Basesize... the Pult is on 30mm Bases as written in the Book... But it looks very cool... That is a typo. Wyrd has said it will be a 50mm base when released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wodschow Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 Looks really cool! More of a sling than a catapult, but hey - who'd expect a Gremlin to be able to tell the difference! I love the amount of small details in it. Poorly its has the wrong Basesize... the Pult is on 30mm Bases as written in the Book... But it looks very cool... It was asked in the rules forum and Sketch said it was meant to be 50mm: http://wyrd-games.net/forum/showthread.php?p=164563#post164563 Edit: ninjaedninajed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sholto Posted November 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 Thanks guys. Yeah, it was 50mm in the beta, so I assumed that was a typo in the book (but, phew! Glad Weird Sketch confirmed it) @Wodschow - in the UK, catapult means both slingshot and the wooden catapult. I'm not saying Wyrd knew that, but I bet the Gremlins did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemissary Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 Looks very neat! Can't wait to see it painted up, so we can see all the details. Thanks for the video link! That just solved some issues I was having with bases. Helped a ton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellygrub Posted November 20, 2010 Report Share Posted November 20, 2010 Beautiful job! Now you just need to put the gremlin from the warpig on a flying base as a launch marker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loganproudbeard Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 soooooooooooooo sweeeeeeet!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpRaven Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 omg, logan you might just be the worst. mass-threadomancy and all to add the words sweet to the end of every post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaane Feinwong Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 What's mine say...Sweeeet! Oh, and for the record, this pigapult model got my 11 year old daughter interested enough to play...Sweeet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sholto Posted February 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 Oh, and for the record, this pigapult model got my 11 year old daughter interested enough to play...Sweeet! Lol! I have played 2 games with Som'er so far. This is yet to come out of the model box, but I will try it out next time. I have lots of Piglets and Stuffed Piglets to hurl I think a decent list will only need a couple of Stuffed Piglets to start with to keep the Pigapult going Turns 1 & 2. By Turn 3 Som'er should have done Git Yer Bro and turned a wounded Gremlin into a Piglet with his Cb trigger, and then the Taxidermist can start turning Piglets into Stuffed Piglets. Move a Mosquito up to wreck the opponent's control hand and then activate the Pigapult, hoping for lots of lovely blast damage Add Pere Ravage for more options, and Bayou Gremlins, and they should be good to go. Maybe a Slop Hauler if facing high Df targets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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