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.