Langton ancient ships

And now, a closer look at the Langton ships:

Deceres

Octeres

Hepteres

These are among the largest ancient ships that Langton makes.  For Tékumel, they will fill the role of the zírunel,
the largest of the common classes of warships.  I believe that there are
larger warships plying the oceans of Tékumel, but they are rare and I
will not worry about them, for now...

Roman quinquereme

Carthaginian quinquereme

Quadrireme

Trireme

The next step down in size, these are slated to represent the qél for my Tékumeli navies.  I
was pleasantly surprised to see that the relatives sizes of these
miniatures are very close.  This will allow a lot of variety, not only
for different navies but also within a particular empire's navy (Langton
has other miniatures of this size that I have yet to purchase).

Liburnian

Trihemiolia

Hemiolia

These
three miniatures are markedly more narrow than the previous four, as
well as being slightly shorter.  For Tékumel, I think these will work as
the srügánta, although the hemiolia is a bit smaller than the other two and might be better as a séscha.  Out of these, the liburnian is especially appealing with the stern platform.

Overall, I am quite pleased with the appearance of these miniatures.  There is still work to do, as the representation of a séscha is
not fully set yet, and there are a couple of trireme variants I would
like to look at before setting it all in stone (heh) for the building of
some flotillas.