Trireme Olympias by Richard Braithwaite

[BANYAN]

What a great result Richard, can't wait to see the completed product.  Nice work.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Richard Braithwaite]

Here is my ram with the extra "decorative" bits added (on the left) with Olympias's ram on the right. John Coates is the man in the middle modelling their new fabrication...

Its not perfect but I'm reasonably pleased as its my first go at a complex fabrication like this with silver solder.

Interestingly it wasnt the long welds that were the most difficult. All the tiny decorative bits were surprisingly tricky. I used extra easy silver solder to reduce the risk of melting previous joints and plenty of Thermal gel plastered over everything away from the actual joint I was making at the time. I thought I wouldnt need as much heat input so started off with my smaller blowtorch, but couldn't get a melt. In fact it took a lot of effort with the large torch to get the solder to flow. I guess that is because the thick plating around the joints was sucking the heat up. In fact one of the issues of this fabrication is getting enough heat into the 1mm plate without melting/distorting the 0.2mm plate its attaching to...

 

Ive been trying out a couple of patination options (ammonia vapor and liver of sulphur), but I'm thinking I may just let it tarnish naturally...

Here is an image of the Athlit ram that John based his design on:

 

Edited Wednesday at 05:34 PM by Richard Braithwaite

[Michael Mash]

Bravo.  Looks as good as the real thing.

[BANYAN]

Very nicely done indeed Richard, that is a very true miniature copy of the the original.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Keith Black]

 That's absolutely amazing, Richard. 👍

[Pirate adam]

That really turned out incredible. Great work!!

 

Adam

[Richard Braithwaite]

Thanks for all the positive comments. Its been one of the more challenging little subprojects ive done...