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Here is another Zvezda Roman Trireme in 1:72 scale i built, this one was made two years ago and shows the ship with sails and full rigging.
On the ship there are some marines, sailors and scorpio artillery.
For the crew i used Roman sailors from Orion and Legionaries from Caesar Miniatures. The catapults are from Hät.
Ships like that served in the Roman fleet in the 1st and 2nd century A.D. when the Mediterranean was completely under Roman control, therefore they saw only combat against pirates and were mainly used to transport troops. The navy was never an important part of the army, but the Romans maintained a quite powerful fleet even when it was not needed anymore. I think it this has something to do with prestige and imperial policy.
The water was done a bit different as on the "Battle of Mylae" diorama, i mainly used clear "Window color" paints which worked not that bad.



























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like it alot,

the water effect on the oars is really well done.

Wow how do you do the water

Thank you all!
For the water i first primed the wooden board with blue paint, then i applied several layers of transparent window colour. It was a bit laborious but the result looks alright.

Nice to see some larger pics of your models, as well as what you offer on YouTube.. A beauty of a ship..

BasicModelling wrote:Nice to see some larger pics of your models, as well as what you offer on YouTube.. A beauty of a ship..

Thank you sir, your kind words are much appreciated as always
Great to meet you here Rob!

HamilkarBarkas wrote:Thank you all!
For the water i first primed the wooden board with blue paint, then i applied several layers of transparent window colour. It was a bit laborious but the result looks alright.

Yet another awesome piece!! Sorry for my ignorance but what product is transparent window colour?

Yet another awesome piece!! Sorry for my ignorance but what product is transparent window colour?

Window color was a big trend (at least over here in Germany) several years ago, kids and creative mothers used those colours to make window decoration using templates from the Internet or books.
such a thing for example:

The templates are put under a transparent plastic foil and the lines get retraced with the paints. Later the surfaces inside the picture can be painted with other colours.
When dried those pictures could be pulled off the transparent foil and attached to a window, all colours are a bit translucent.
I used the transparent paint for the water effect.

The ship, the water, the sails, the rigging! Is there no end to your abilities?! Outstanding stuff my friend.

Looks great , was the sail detail a decal or did you do.it yourself?

UKscalemodeller wrote:Looks great , was the sail detail a decal or did you do.it yourself?

Thank you all

The picture on the sail was a decal, it was included.

Amazing!!

I like this

Water effects look really good. I have never seen a roman boat model before. Thanks for expanding my mind

Very nice indeed, the water looks superb also and the splashes around the oars are amazing, so much detail to look over.

Thank you very much my friends

First off ! WOW

then.. thanks for reminding me about window paints... We have those here still

I have an idea !

Later and AWESOME work again...

did they really have Stone towers ??? really ? on a boat ?

weird but NICE vignette none the less !

you keep amazing me my friend ! you talent is boundless !

schweinhund227 wrote:First off ! WOW

then.. thanks for reminding me about window paints... We have those here still

I have an idea !

Later and AWESOME work again...

did they really have Stone towers ??? really ? on a boat ?

weird but NICE vignette none the less !

you keep amazing me my friend ! you talent is boundless !

Thank you very much
The clear window colour works good in this scale, i´m sure you can use it at some point with big benefit!
with regard to the stone towers, they were not made out of stones, they were wooden but for some reason they felt like giving them a stone look. actually we know little about these ships as the wrecks can tell us a lot but not everything.

Absolutely love that water Michael, really does have that effect of realism mate

Excellent! That is simply brilliant As a fellow Roman enthusiast, I salute your fine modelling in this obscure genre. Great stuff.