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Early Roman Trireme, 1/60 scale.

My first attempt at model shipbuilding, an early Roman trireme (c. 300 B.C.).
There are 166 oars (there were supposed to be 168, but I mis-measured the rowing bench spacing), and about 1,200 total parts. Because had very little knowledge of proper materials, I built it almost entirely out of balsa. The build time was about 250 hours over 6 months.

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Updated September 4, 2013
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