Friday 29 December 2017

Roman Warship-plastic kit.

Among the "mound" of pressies I got for Christmas this year,hiding in among the "usual" underpants,socks,aftershave etc. etc. I received some 1st Corps figures,a copy of the WRG book on Medieval armies,a set of acrylic paints and a plastic kit of a Roman Warship......................


The figures will be started next week,the book is great,and has been thumbed through already,the paints,I must admit(until I used them) I thought wouldn't be suitable for painting, and the kit just shouted out to be made asap!!



The kit was made in Korea-now being a Geordie,I struggle with English,let alone Korean,so my heart sank at the thought of instructions in Korean-I needn't have worried,the instructions were of the "visual" type-however,most sections had sub-sections within them!!! Most of the initial construction was common sense stuff,so the first few stages were easy enough.

OOH ER!!!!-the worst was to come-the rigging-at this point I made an executive decision not to put any rigging onto the ship!!

See what I mean????anyway,on with the kit....................................

The basic shape was easy to achieve,just glue the sections together! the difficult part was getting the shields,rudders and oars into position-but with a bit of patience,perseverence and alot of glue,I managed it.(oh, I should mention quite alot of rude words!!)

I opted to paint the shields on the sprue,because they had to be glued onto a rail,which then had to be glued onto the deck(sticky the stick insect springs to mind here!)


Top photo shows the shields stuck to the rails,bottom photo shows the rails in position,but not yet stuck.

With the basic shape done,I started to paint the sails and bow and stern,using the acrylic paints previously mentioned-and I was impressed!

Now for the oars,the bloody oars,the bloody,bloody oars!!!-with the model just about finished,i discovered that the bloody,bloody oars should have been fitted at the very first stage!!!!!!!
However,being of sound mind and not the least bit phased by small set-backs as this-I did manage to get them fitted(sort of!)

The whole thing is finished,and I think it looks good.



Three more views of the finished article.
It started snowing when I was finishing the model,and I really did want to go and clear the back path,but I was exhausted with making the ship,so THE WIFE had to do it-ah bless!!!

Happy New Year to you all.






























































14 comments:

  1. Looks great - now to get it into a game!

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    1. Hi David-just watch,everything will have it in,Zulus,Romans,ECW,the lot!!!!
      regards,johnc(william)

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  2. Great haul of pressies John (the Feudal armies book is brill) and the ship looks good. Well trained wife as well, so you seem to have everything sorted,
    cheers
    Mike

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    1. Hi Mike.I hope you had a good Xmas too-I agree with you on the book-so full of detail,history,battles etc.
      Have a good new year,
      johnc

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  3. That's a good looking ship...! Amazing value for money, though everywhere I've looked is out of stock - think you got the last one! :o)

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    1. HI STW-try Amazon!!!
      enjoy the new year festivities,regards,
      johnc

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    1. Cheers Neil,good to hear from you-I must admit I was impressed by the way it turned out(surprised really!!)-keep the comments coming in 2018,
      johnc(william)

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  5. John that's a cracking ship. Personally I've found if you actually read the instructions first it helps. I wouldn't like to see you with Ikea furniture. Good to see your lass has a new shovel for Christmas by the way.All the best now.....

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    1. Robbie-the instructions were in Korean!!
      it almost sounds like "makem-speak" so I should have sent them to you!!-Wife's shovel wasn't for Xmas-it was for her birthday,last April-well you've got to think ahead!
      Enjoy new year,
      johnc

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  6. Nice :-) much prettier than my mdf ships. All the best for 2018!
    Chris

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    1. HI Chris,I can't get any troops onto mine though!-I've just ordered another one,which should be here next week!
      cheers,johnc.

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    2. I hope that you get time at Vapnartak to command one of my triremes and chat a while :-)

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    3. Chris,I mightn't get to Vapnartak this year,my daughter in law is due to "drop" her baby on the 6th!!!
      johnc.

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