PUNIC WARS - ROMAN TRIREME FOR 30 mm PAPERSOLDIERS

 It has been since long a verydream of mine to be able to make with paper (and glue and wood) a Roman trireme (and a Venetian Galley, but this is another history) matching my 30mm tall papersoldiers. 

So, after long time - and I still don't know why I did it - I went (again) and I bought the paper models of Wargame Vault 

https://www.wargamevault.com/account_history_info.php?order_id=42131631 

for a 1/300 scale Roman Galley, matching with 6 mm soldiers.

My goal was hence to up-scale the trireme, adding details and trying to adjust where I could the very good template I've gotten.

Firstly I had to remake a little more precise the proportions of the trireme, considering it 40 m long and just 5.5 meters wide, so a sort of long  (and unstable) boat; to do that I used my papersoldiers 30 mm tall, considering them in reality as 2 m tall (actually with the long feathers on their head, considering a man of the epoch 165/170 cm tall, plus 30 cm helmet and feathers)

Once this done, I glued it on a thicker cardboard in order to give to this a shape and a sort of resistance.

I did the same with the main deck and I put the deck inside the boards, as explained by the original instructions. Then I started to have some problems with details. For example the protections of the deck were too high in comparation with my minifigures (bottom)

I decided then to make it shorter in order to let the soldiers see something during the navigation

I then used toothpicks to reinforce all the structure of the boat and giving a precise shape to it. The resul was quite good (Bottom)

Here (above) an first idea of what was meant to be. But still a lot to be done....

1848 PIEDMONTESE HORSE ARTILLERY "VOLOIRE" Second Part

 Following up my previous thread, I finally realized some pictures of the figures, duly cut and with some ambience around, just to give more charme. 

Here the escort to the Horse artillery train

Here an officer

1704 BAVARIAN LEIBREGIMENT AT 1:1 RATIO

 After long working and cutting and glueing I finally achieved the first part of my goal: to represent for the first time ever the Bavarian Leibregiment in 1704 that partecipated to the Battle of the Schellenberg. The regiment was on 3 battalions: 1 of Grenadiers and the other 2 of Musketeers. Every battalion (on 5 companies) had around 700 men.

So I finally put together 2100 papersoldiers, plus drummers, commanders and the Elector of Baviera Maximilian with his red uniform.