Small Viking Warship With 26 Oars ca. 950 AD (Snekja)

The hull of this small viking warship can be printed out as two pieces each 12cm long at full size which is 1:72 scale. If you have a 22x22cm printing plate you can also print it out as a single hull, which avoids having to glue two hull pieces together in the middle.  I designed it to go with my viking army. It is more modest, and it also probably was more common, than the 32-oar ships that one normally associates with the era. The length of this 24- or 26-oar ship would have been be around 17m, which makes the model ca. 24-25cm long at full size. To avoid joints and warping, the plan was to print out the entire hull “right side up” with minimum supports (i.e. 80% overhang) as one job.  The single hull will only fit on a 22x22cm plate diagonally. Supports do mess up the structure of the lower hull but I think this is the best way to display the details on the deck.  The partitions or segments in the hull were called rooms. Inside the partitions and underneath the floor they had the