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mkii Archer Automaton

Posted November 09, 2023 5:45 AM by user-deleted-1105

I made a mki archer automaton out of wood a few years back, it was pretty good and it shot an arrow with a convincing action. The problem was, you had to load the arrow onto the string manually.


I decided to make a mkii, out of steel this time and to make him nock the arrow onto the string himself. I got a nice little gasless MIG welder which can do surprisingly fine work, and it got a lot of use.
Here's a video of him working , and one of the arrow as it is loosed in slo-mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiIEFcMz7cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQaTh_A4liE
hope you like it
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11/09/2023 5:42 PM

Nicely done, I can see the time one puts into this,… thanks for sharing.

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11/09/2023 10:45 PM

Ha ha yeah that's cool, I remember when you showed us the 1st model way back when...this looks a bit lethal...

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11/10/2023 4:45 AM

Brilliant!

One for Southwold pier.
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11/10/2023 2:48 PM

Quite impressive! I'm sure it really felt good when you got it to work.
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11/11/2023 7:04 AM

Cheers, yeah, there was a huge amount of build, re-build, adjust, re-build...rinse and repeat!
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06/27/2025 8:59 AM

Fantastic. In a world made of tweaks, I truly appreciate how you put that together and made it work perfectly.

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11/13/2023 4:24 AM

That is a convincing action, well done. Is the figure a "self portrait"?

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12/28/2023 4:09 AM

The head is a bit like me except it has hair.... I'm not so slim
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01/10/2024 12:59 PM

hehehe - . I can't say too much to taunt Del.

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12/27/2023 7:20 AM

Great device.Show the genius of the inner mind of the creator.

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01/12/2024 4:36 PM

Our Mister Cat has his own youtube chanel. DEL CAT

Its a fun watch.

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01/14/2024 8:27 PM

I'd forgot about Del's other online posts. Great to watch, so I'll go look for some of his more recent activity. Probably about 10 years since I checked out such ! Thanks for the reminder. For anybody not familiar, he's annoyingly brilliant at making all sorts of stuff.

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01/25/2024 4:15 AM

Cheers Kris
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