MSW crew-mate Arthur Macon (ArthurSC) shares a gallery of images of his latest build, Academy Models, Roman Warship, 50BC, in this "On Display" Feature!

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Thanks!
~Gunny

That is really nice and totally different from recent ships. Thank you for sharing Arthur.

Excellent work, Arthur! That rigging work is beautiful!

Thanks, it was fun to do something different, and learn a few new tricks along the way.

Very nicely done! Different, colorful... thanks for sharing!

Now that's a classical piece of work. Very well done.

--Karl

I was very glad to see this. I have the same kit and have been trying visualize how it would look. Thanks for sharing!

Hey Steven
No real issues for the build, the oars are a bit of a pain because the Testors liquid glue is very aggressive on Academy styrene. You might want to use super glue when setting them in place. Forget about it being to scale because it’s not. I figured it out to be closer to 1/100 than 1/250. So just have fun with it and forget about any accuracy issues. I enjoyed it and I think you will too.
If you have any question feel free to write, I’ll be happy to help.

First question: what colors did you use to get that nice deep brown (almost stained look)?

That was a mix of Testors enamel brown (the small bottle) and MM leather. It was thinned so it could be used in my airbrush but I hand pained it using a #1nylon brush. Light coats each time.
My base coat on the model was MM Dark Tan 30219, and then hand brushed the mix on till I got the shade I wanted. I gave it a final wash with heavily thinned acrylic black to bring out the wood grain.

What looks like black on the outriggers and bottom is a mix as well, with 50% MM 34102 medium green with 50% MM gloss black. What that did was bring a bit of green shading to the dark areas just to keep it from being a pure black. That keeps the viewer guessing that maybe their eyes are playing tricks on them seeing a little green tint when they thought it was just black.

Great! Thank you for sharing your technique. Again, it does look very nice.