Intro from a bronze age modeller

[Howlin]

Hello, this is my first post in joining a 1/72 community.

I painted my first accurate sets of French and British knights in high school some 22-23 years ago I got at a local hobby shop. At the time I had dreamed of making it like a game of chess spaced out on the grid of a cutting mat. Well not long after I went to college and life put all that to the way side, while not knowing how the 1/72 world was coming to life... Now some years later am returning to those dreams of my inner child but in a grander version than I had ever thought of.
I thought I was going to go medieval at first, but soon fell for the ancient ages and ship warfare.

So I have built a collection of Triremes and biremes and some merchant ships built from the scraps.

I was going to post a bunch of pictures of some works but apparently need to find a image hosting service.

Well I hope to share some more soon.

Thank you

[Peter]

Welcome Jacob and I'm looking forward to a bunch of pictures of your work!

[wilberforcefrog]

Welcome and hello! I'm new here too and it's a friendly place from what I've seen.

I've been postimages for things that I've put here, I know imgur can work too.

Those ships sound amazing, I hope you can share them soon!

[Howlin]

test image of one of my ships, Its inspired by some pictures but also taken a lot of artistic license.

[Beano Boy]

To the individual artist belongs the artistic licence to do their very own thing in his or her hobby-style work.Welcome to the Forum Jacob,and your ancient boat looks real cool. BB

[Howlin]

Thank you I added a bunch more in the works in progress page.

one thread for the merchant ships

and another for the triremes, biremes, and penteconters.

[Bluefalchion]

You'll find some ancients masters in this group, so you've come to the right place.

The ancients masters do not include myself.

[Howlin]

I thought I was going to go with medieval themes but soon ended up getting drawn to the ancient bronze age. i really like the style of garb and armor from that time.

I really need to study up on some proper paint techniques because so far what I am doing for flesh tones and metals is sub par. I basically paint with artist acrylics red, blue, yellow, white, and black and mix in plastic food tubs. and then use tamiya metallics.

[Kekso]

Welcome to the forum!