If you need a Praefectus fabrum with carroballista

[Emmanuel]

I'have at least finish my carroballista and my uniform of a praefectus fabrum or a magister ballistarium of the end of the first century after Christum, What do you think about these trying of reenacment.





If you need roman artillery for your group, you can ask me to come.

[Peroni]

Very impressive!
It must have made a big hole in your bank account for such nice kit!

[Mark Headlee]

Ave,

If you need a place to store that impressive carroballista..I would gladly offer my garage! :wink: :wink: :wink:

[arklore70]

That is awesome. Congrats to you!!

Have you tried to shoot anything with it?

V/r
Mike

[Aetius Helvius Merula]

Oh man, that's good! Wish I had the resources for something like that. Laudes to you!

[maius]

Wow! Fantastic job, thats awesome! Your impression looks great too.

Laudes!

Maius/Bill

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

cool!

[D B Campbell]

I have at least finish my carroballista ...

Nice job, Emmanuel (though I'd probably call it a scorpio rather than a ballista -- long story).

Can you tell us some dimensions -- e.g. what size are the washers?

[Emmanuel]

Thanks far all the felicatations.
The washers are 12 cm of diameter on the exterior and the hole in the center is of 7,5 cm. All the pieces of this scorpion are made by proportions about the text of Vitruvius.
The washers are a copy of the one which is in the Museum of Bath. I have decided to put this scorpion on wheels as it is drawn on the Trajan column. It's an hypothesis, but the wheels are the same of the wheels whose are discovered at Herculanum.
It's the first stage, because I'm working on an attelage for it with horses.
I have tryed yet to shoot with it and I have made some shoots about 2 hundred meters in parabolic shoot, but it's just the beginning.

[Virilis]

Very nice job indeed, Emmanuel hock: ! In addition to that great looking "Scorpio" it is nice to see also a perfectly fitting helmet (I know, I know, here I go again :wink: ...). Can you tell us who has made your helmet?

[Emmanuel]

for the Helmet it's a special production of Manning Imperiel in australia and for the crista it's made by me. The helmet is tinned with silver It's a copy of the which has been discovered at Eich. The type is a Port but with somes modifications as on the original.

[Virilis]

Thanks, Emmanuel! Custom job is, after all, a custom job :wink: ...

[Robert Vermaat]

Looks great! Do you also do Late Roman? :wink:

[Emmanuel]

I have no costum of late roman but I have a cheiroballistra made about the description of Heron d'Alexandrie. You can see it on this forum at the part on cheiroballistra.

[AntonivsMarivsCongianocvs]

That is a radically AWESOME kit!!!

The carroballista is cherry but I was most intrigued by your shield… very accurate looking and it’s GREAT to see something with raised embellishments and not painted.

If that shield of yours suddenly turned into marble… that is very much like what we see in the ancient sculptures… do you have any other close up photos of it?

I’m still working on my Subarmalis but, I have a curved shield (which I’m going to cut more egg shaped or oval to match the Praetorian shields) and I just picked up a sheet of 24 gauge steel for the embellishments.

Also, on the Pteryges… did you lay the fringe on underneath and sew around or did you sandwich the fringe in between?

I have two layers of quilted diamond pattern felt for my Subarmalis and I was going to use 100% cotton fringe and then add a layer of alternating red and a layer of white linen over each but, I’m still a little puzzled on how exactly to add the fringe.

Laudes!