Sea People ship

[Samson]

Just got this amazing wee ship by Red Copper. Bigger prints like this can bought from www.studiohistoria.com

[FierceKitty]

No wonder they were called "Sea Peoples". They must have capsized twenty times an hour.

[cadbren]

 

My first thought too. It looks like a prop from a b-grade movie.

It's cool looking but the design simply isn't seaworthy and I find this is an issue with a lot of 3d modeled sets. Historical accuracy is minimal and the end product is often cartoonish. It's a boat that has no rigging, no oars and no tiller/rudder. The person who designed this appears to have no understanding of boats. It appears to be based on the stylised boats seen in Egyptian art so the bird heads look great but the ship would have been sleeker and those heads comparatively lower. The figure looks great too.

[ithoriel]

In my experience it is so difficult to get pre-trireme ships of any sort in any scale one takes what one can get.

 

[Samson]

I think it’s more for DBA camps style? I will use it at table edge for scenery

[Mad Gadgeteer]

It appears to be based on the following info.

https://medium.com/the-bronze-age/the-ships-of-the-sea-peoples-part-1-994249af5304

https://medium.com/the-bronze-age/the-ships-of-the-sea-peoples-part-2-2bed75f8e05c

Perhaps the proportions would be better if it were longer.

[SJWi]

Agree that as printed not a very seaworthy vessel. However as a piece of table-edge scenery maybe the truncated length has some advantages. I used to have a,properly dimensioned viking-period ship in 28mm and it was pretty big.

[Philhelm]

Agree that as printed not a very seaworthy vessel. However as a piece of table-edge scenery maybe the truncated length has some advantages. I used to have a,properly dimensioned viking-period ship in 28mm and it was pretty big.

I agree.  Properly scaled terrain can be pretty big.  For Frostgrave (28mm fantasy skirmish), I used some plastic Russian izbas from Pegasus which were 20mm.  If you put a based 28mm miniature by the door it's clearly a bit too tall, but it isn't noticable during actual gameplay and the building footprints aren't too large for the battlefield.

[cadbren]

I think it could look a lot better if the poop decks were lowered to the top of the gunwale and those planks in the middle were removed. I think the planks are meant to be seats for crew but they look more like cattle stops. As is it would look good from the front/back. It's great to have seen the rest of those Mycenaean Greeks in the other thread.

[carlos marighela]

Just paint it yellow and pop it on the edge of the bath.