Andrea Roman Galley

[Praefectusclassis]

Anyone got about $2000,- spare? Andrea models will be putting a 54mm Roman galley and crew on the market. Looks nice, though they managed to get a number of periods confused and more than a few details incorrect on the galley.www.zinnfigur.com/All/DHome_Set.asp <p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jasperoorthuys>Jasper Oorthuys</A> at: 10/12/03 2:02 pm<br></i>

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

Wow, that looks great!<br>
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That thing is 97cm long, 45cm wide and 55cm tall!<br>
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cool, looks like i have something for my St.Nikolaas-list....<br>
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unfortunatly you apperantly have to be multi-languestic as the building text begins in English and goes on in German, French, Italian, Spanish and ends in Japaneese.<br>
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How on earth am i going to complete this thing! I don´t speak Japaneese?!<br>
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<p>Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam!</p><i></i>

[Praefectusclassis]

Yup, it's big, but that too indicates that something is very wrong. 97*32 (54mm scale is about 1:32) would make this boat slightly over 31 meters in length, which is a bit short. Even the Olympias, a trireme, is 38 meters. But corvi would be placed on quadriremes and quinqueremes, (the latter with 300 rowers according to Polybius). <p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i></i>

[Praefectusclassis]

More detail [url=http://www.squadron.com/old/aebireme/aebireme.htm" target="top]pics[/url]. <p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i></i>

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

again wow,<br>
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doesn´t anybody like to give me 2000 euro´s, just because i´m a nice guy?! <p>Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam!</p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

I'm going to post my 3d-modell of a ship that belongs to Traian's era very soon (it's for free ). I even modelled some soldiers. <p>---------------<br>
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<img src="http://home.nexgo.de/berzelmayr/hadrian.gif"/> Est vita misero longa, felici brevis.<br>
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[Praefectusclassis]

If you want to see close ups and a suck-up article on it, check out the January issue of Military Modelling. <p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i></i>

[Daniel S Peterson]

Yep, the Andrea ship seems to be just an upscaled version of the also too short Heller and Imai circa 1/72 plastic kits. There is now a much more accurately proportioned ship in the 1/72 'Greek' Trireme from the Russian firm Zevda, and a 'Roman' one, much like the Andrea, and Heller Kits in style, will be released this year.<br>
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To make an accurate trireme for my 1/72 wargame armies, I would glue two of the heller ships together. (minus the extra bow and stern, of course.<br>
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Dan <p></p><i></i>