"Roman Trireme scratchbuilt " Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Oct 2014 9:57 p.m. PST |
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| HarryHotspurEsq | 26 Oct 2014 4:13 a.m. PST |
Certainly not a trireme, but it is lovely. |
 Miniatureships  | 26 Oct 2014 6:51 a.m. PST |
I would say that it is a Quinereme or larger. |
| williamb | 26 Oct 2014 7:39 a.m. PST |
On the last link the builder says it is a bireme. Looks similar to the Mantua wood kit
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| Khazarmac | 26 Oct 2014 9:13 a.m. PST |
I was going to say, small rather than large, as only two banks of oars. |
| HarryHotspurEsq | 26 Oct 2014 12:55 p.m. PST |
I guess we just have to accept that it is a model, rather than the actual thing. It is bireme sized perhaps, but it is also fully covered which is a feature only of larger Hellenistic (vel sim.) vessels as I understand it. Still, it is a smashing job. |
| Tango01 | 26 Oct 2014 9:15 p.m. PST |
Glad you like the wip boys. Amicalement
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| Plasticviking3 | 04 Nov 2014 4:49 p.m. PST |
Two tiers of oars worked from a box. Fits nicely with a quadrireme. 64 oars with two men on each oar – lots of crew can be ok for a 4. Dimension-wise not bad at all. And a great model. Maybe the access to the lower deck would be step/ladder rather than big square hatch ? but anyway .. And Egadi finds have confirmed many ships in Punic Wars were smaller than quinquiremes – maybe most. |
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paints some fast cats.