Business partner suggested that building multiple real catapults would be unfeasible and expensive for a film concept that we're considering... (but wouldn't you be crazy to make a western-style fantasy film inspired by Clint Eastwood spaghetti Westerns without a few catapults?) So, I've funded the project of building a working catapult for 200 dollars. Budget so far: 137 dollars. Dimensions are 9 feet long, 5 feet high... It's coming along nicely out back behind the office, and I think it might be ready as early as next week for a test run...
Of course, it won't LOOK like a historical catapult, but once the engineers have built it and built it cheap and proven that it works, we can have production design dress it up and make it look good, hopefully (real functioning catapult: $200 ... art-to-make-it-look-real?... probably $2000). In the meantime, I look forward to firing a watermelon out into the parking lot next week.
Ready, aim, watermelon!
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