Showing posts with label MILETUS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MILETUS. Show all posts

Friday, 19 June 2020

NAUMACHIA : PART I

And here we have them . All lit up. Its wonderful. Like fairyland. All lit up.......

No, actually, here we have the ancient Carian city of Miletus. In 1/3600 scale.



The ships are Outpost Wargame Services' 1/3600 series.


A normal day at the merchant harbour with traffic coming and going.
Some odd wind patterns but no one notices.

And then ! here comes a Roman fleet. The landlubbers with their towered flagships, and a vanguard of corax-equipped quinqueremes.




Roman quinqueremes and hepteremes in centre with towers






Corax-equipped ships in front

The Milesian's launch their guard flotilla of triereis.


But because this is just a demonstration parade it all ends with a cup of tea.


Finally a peek at the walls of Hexapolis. A modular fortification system for this scale I made to go with the modualr city of Hexapolis.2mm figure strips work ok with it.



Obviously not meant to be placed in the sea!....

Thursday, 29 October 2015

HOME SWEET HOME

My homeless ships have now somewhere to moor and ship sheds to be dragged up into.

 This is based on ancient Miletus and I aim to make Rhodos and Piræus too.

Naval harbour in foreground, mercantile harbour background.
Another perspective. Model is made from high-density styrene cut out with knife.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

A WALK IN MILETUS

http://www.fhw.gr/choros/miletus/en/photos.php


Take a tour of ancient Miletus - an important naval base for the Achaemenians - at the site of the Hellenic Foundation for History and Culture.Tour starts with a trip on a trireme ;)