i have just about had it with tryng to make the 28 so called figures look human… i dont think ill ever get done. cant give up that just dosent seem right. when i get done ill give the thing away and hope to never see another one agine…
Depending on the scale, you may want to try another manufacturer’s figures, e.g. I believe that some 1/72nd plastic Viking crews are available, as are some roughly 1/56th (so-called ‘25mm’ or ‘28mm’) pewter Viking crews that are intended as wargames figures.
smer are 1/50th scale i though 1/48 would work but they look like giants. so ill soldier on untill i just give up or get done.
Apparently, Gripping Beast include rowers with their resin ship kits:
http://www.grippingbeast.com/shop.php?CatID=29
As do Old Glory:
http://www.oldgloryminiatures.com/proddetail.asp?prod=SVS-12&cat=389
Might either be willing to sell their rowers separately…?
The 1:72 scale viking oarsmen from british manufacturer EMHAR also wont fit, I guess.
Concerning the crude details I can tell you that the model was issued first
in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The original manufacturer was MERIT
from Great Britain, who pirate copied the AURORA viking ship. Its indeed a copy,
not from the same mould. There are slight differences ike the engravings of the
dragon head, and others too. MERIT also copied the 1:220 scale Cutty Sark, Chinese junk
and the pirate ship “Black Falcon”. CS and BF are available from SMER too,
like other kits from old MERIT tools, which were sold to the italian manufacturer
ARTIPLAST in the late 1960s and then suddenly reappeared at SMER in the 1980s.
Only the Chinese Junk (also AURORA copy) has not been reissued yet.
I wonder whether the tool was lost or damaged ?
In my collection I have both, Aurora originals, Merit copies and actual Smer kits.
So I found out that the MERIT / SMER models were not pantographed from
AURORAs models. Cutty Sark shows slight differences in width of the hull for example.
HTH woxel 59