Finally... the scout ship is finished!
For several reasons I've stalled this build for over than half a year, but I wanted to finish it in time for the model show in Oberschleissheim on march the 3rd and 4th, and hey, I did it!
It was mainly the rigging, that was still missing (and please foregive me in advance any wrong terms, I don't do this in my motherlanguage. Actually, this is all based upon the Wikipedia article on rigging:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigging). First of all, I had to find out how the roman s rigged their ships. I took my informations on this subject from H.D.L. Viereck: 'Classis Romana, Die Roemische Flotte', Hamburg, 1996. Additionally, I contacted the University of Regensburg, and I got specific information on the rigging of their aformentioned replica of a navis lusoria.
In general, the rigging was relatively simple.
The standing rigging consits of forestay, backstay, and the shrouds. All lines run through blocks and tackles.
The running rigging consists of a double halyard, sheets, braces, and clewlines and buntlines. Furthermore, the romans also used lines running from the mast top to the yard ends, which I unfortunately havn't found the english term for. The braces run through blocks. Very characteristic for the ancient rigging are the clewlines and buntline, which run in a direct line from the yard to their attachmentpoints in the back of the ship (on modern sail ships, in contrary, these lines typically run on the inside of the shrouds and, therefore, are quite unrecognizable).
Based on the rigging plan I got from Regensburg, my model has two shrouds on each side and none of the linesIdonotknowthenameof. I've ommited the halyards (no vale la pena) and I simplified the braces, i.e., I used a single line. This is, because the thread I used for the rigging is far from being as thin as it should be.
(Note, that in the plan shrouds and halyards are ommited, and the sheets are only indicated by arrows. Some quite good pictures that show the shrouds can be obtained from the 'presse' section of Dr Christoph Schaefer's home page
http://www.antike-multimedial.de/201.0.html, e.g., at
http://www.antike-multimedial.de/761.0.html?&tx_jppageteaser_pi1[backId]=650).