Help needed building an onager

[D B Campbell]

Nice picture! I do wonder about the technecalities of it all, though.

My sketch -- wonderfully brought to life by the excellent Brian Delf -- was necessarily theoretical since (a) nobody has ever built the size of onager described by Ammianus, and (b) I have only ever seen rather poor photographs of de Reffye's onager.

Prior to 2003, any and all reconstruction paintings depicted the Payne-Gallwey design. My picture was intended to fire the imagination of craftsmen like you! :wink: