The Michty Helen

The first bit of video has surfaced from Saturdays's NothingAboutUs event. Colin Speir's fine short film of the GalGael trebuchet in action is here

Something about 'Nothing' in the Evening Times

'Nothing about us...' was featured in this article by Deborah Anderson in the Evening Times yesterday (that's our trebuchet in the background!)

"A Govan Armada will be taking over the River Clyde this weekend as part of a major public art event. Events will be held to link up both sides of the river and get communities involved in their heritage. Govan will be bombed with messages delivered by two medieval siege catapaults, or trebuchets. St. Kilda mailboats and a soundscape of sea shanties will also be some of the attractions at Saturday's event.  Even extracts from Upper Clyde Shipbuilder's hero Jimm Reid's speeches will be broadcast across the water."

Trebuchet

Calculation is the order of the day in Trebuchet World at the moment....the finger belongs to Grant Leckie our trebuchet expert and the man who put the 'art in artillery' (via Tam McGarvey)

Rico our main man on the trebuchet build is sounding confident about the prospects of a test firing on Tuesday....good news

Govan Charm Projectiles

Drawing by Colin Begg of early designs for the projectiles to be fired by one of the Govan Trebuchets as part of the 'Charm Offensive'

The Real Thing

Mark, Ricco and Tam talk size

Whether it be a ship or a mediaeval siege catapult there is a special kind of energy that is generated by the building of something big and out of the ordinary. The NothingAboutUs Trebuchet is taking shape at the GalGael in Govan........

Meanwhile in other corners of the workshop it is business as usual:

Colin Macleod's carvings watch over proceedings

proceedings

Committed people discuss and test techniques

NothingAboutUs - between 'Curious', a jumble sale and '13 truths'.....here we stand