Roman Trireme Battle Ship 3d model

This a scale reproduction of a Roman Trireme Battle Ship dated at the Roman Empire period; it is based on drawings produced in 1861, afer the order of the French Empereor, by navy researchers. The ship has a lenght, between perpendiculars, of 39.25m and a floating lenght of 39.7m, a width of 5.5m and a draught of 1m. As a war ship the prow was equipped with a bronze ram ("rostrum") very effective in crashing sides of enemy vessels an rapidly sinking them. At same time a mobile bridge, fitted with metal hooks ("corvus"), was present and used to board other ships and let roman warrior to easily fight on them. A similar ship could bring on bord, in addition to 130 sailors and rowers, about 100 navy soldiers. The present model, has been developed complete with internal structure and rowers and can be considered ready for animation. Many images have been used as textures, but due to the fact that the model itself is less then one third of the total bytes dimension, only 3Mb, it is advised to replace many of them with plain colors in case the ship is repersented in the distance, Textres used are: -BronzeCopper0016_5_S.jpg 292kb -BronzeCopper0049_3_M.jpg 1085kb -fb_eagle01.jpg 139kb -fb_labaro-eagle01.png 369kb -fb_rpt rope hemp.jpg 21kb -fb-eagle01.png 313kb -fb-eagle-x-sail02.png 73kb -fb-leeve02.png 22kb -fb-ornament-crown01.png 121kb -fb-ornam-shell03.png 64kb -fb-OrnmBrd120_Srp.jpg 80kb -fb-PnlClrOak01_S 55kb -fb-rosone-30_S640.jpg 44kb -fb-scraped white L.jpg 239kb -fb-scutum-blue01.png 119kb -fb-scutum-blue-bk02.png 100kb -fb-scutum-blue-bk04.png 110kb -fb-scutum-green01.png 121kb -fb-star02.png 36kb -MetalBare0152_1_S.jpg 707kb -OrnamentBorder0234_1_S.jpg 619kb -OrnamentsRound0031_S.jpg 431kb -PanelsWooden0034_S.jpg 1120kb -PlanksNew0027_7_S.jpg 328kb -PlanksNew0050_5_S.jpg 400kb -sail white.jpg 122kb -til-WoodFine0005_2_S.jpg 299kb -WaterPlain0012_2_S.jpg 89kb -WoodPlanksBeamed0012_1_S.jpg 362kb -WoodPlanksClean0018_1_S.jpg 690kb -rt-sail front text.jpg 344kb