So, I’ve been thinking about the reload mechanism a bit and trying out some ideas and ultimately I want it to not be too elaborate construction on the actual crossbow. Pretty much the idea is that a lot of the mechanics of it is interior. Which is total “fiction” of course. The basic idea is some kind of “pulley” system on the interior. Even though it’s a bit improbable, maybe not impossible, to some degree. I didn’t try and come up with an actual working system considering most of it will not be seen.
So, this little video show the motion of it. I’ll have some grooves cut into the wood where the parts move so it will obviously seem a little more convincing then. But I wanted to put this up here and maybe get some comments. I don’t know if going this route is just too unbelievable type of system. Keeping it compact and simple (on the outside) really makes it something very out there as far as technology goes for this type of weapon.
The other idea was to have the lever be on top where it can either be more forward or more backward, but the problem with that is too much stuff in the way to aim and shoot and having to get the lever out the way of the string. So there’s some problems with that approach, even though the mechanism can be a little more believable, more direct in stead of some fictional counter pulley system.
But, anyway, leave some comments if you have any. I’m not dead set yet on a solution, but this one is about the cleanest I can think that still feels fairly mechanical and has some percentage of believability, even though a small percentage… 