Howdy Gunny,

Thx for the heads-up on this one. I have always been fascinated by ancient warships and their design. I guess that's just the flip side of my same facination with all of the very early examples of aircraft/gliders from the 19th century.
I believe this is a re-issue by Revell. And if I remember correctly, it is a fairly sizable ship once built. I'll have to check it out once it makes it's appearance in the LHS shelves.

Tread.

Oh, BTW Gunny, would this ship qualify for the MSCC?.......... ....just pokin' fun pard'

Having done some reading lately on early North men and their battle techniques, I seem to remember reading somewhere that a far reaching Viking ship had grown weary of suppressing spear and arrow attacks from the nearby shoreline. So, apparently some creative members of the crew rigged up large, oversized crossbows basically on either side of the ship, and placed large diameter tree boughs in their notches, lit the heads of these 'arrows/bolts' which were capped with pitch-covered straw, and sent these 'torpedo's' sailing into the shoreline. Which set the immediate area {dead trees and such} on fire and cleared away the strip of land along the shoreline they traversed.