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| Grade 5 Science Fair materials |
This past September, when I was visiting Alberta, I found the first artifact reproductions that I ever made. My dad helped me make model catapults and ballistae for a science fair project when I was in Grade 5 and they are still in a box in the basement. This was the point in my school career that first sparked my fascination with archaeology and, apparently, projectile weapons and artifact reproductions.
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| Stone boat (for the projectiles), Mangonel, Trebuchet, and Battering Ram |
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| How could a 10 year old boy NOT find that cool? |
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| I think I added the battering ram to the collection after the science fair was over. |
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| The mangonel was the most fun, and probably the most accurate, of the models. |
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| Trebuchet. This is the very first one that dad and I worked on. I think we took some liberties with the design, but you have to start somewhere. |
Photo Credits: Tim Rast
Ten-year-old you gets +1 cool point for learning the correct Latin plural of "ballista".
ReplyDeleteThose are spectacular, Tim. Really, really cool. Maaike, the plural of "ballista" would have been "ballistae," but I can't see where he used it above......?
ReplyDeleteScratch that. I was only looking at the text in the photos, not that of his agèd growed-up self. :-)
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