Forward progress with the Ancient Triremes

I am going to push forward this project "a little bit a day" until it is finished. Finished ships to the left hand side, ships through the next phase to the top and those to be "processed" on the bottom (see below):

Note to self: My Trireme Recipe:

• Clean up the metal
• Glue (UHU) ship to "washer"
• Undercoat Airfix Acrylic primer (01)
• Smear DIY filler (the cheaper the better) as "sea" on base
• Let dry
• Paint rest of base Airfix Grey Primer (01)
• Let dry (dries really quick)
• Vallejo Umber wash the whole thing to pick out the detail
• Vallejo Game Colour Charred/Burnt Brown shade layer (covers all the "wash" from the above previous step but we are sealing the model)
• Vallejo Game Colour Bestial Brown as the mid-tome colour, leaving recesses Charred brown
• Vallejo Game Colour Imperial Blue as shade sea area
• Vallejo Game Colour Plague Brown as deck colour (as per bottom triremes in the above picture)
• Vallejo Game colour Plague Brown "wet brush" highlights of the 'oars" (as per the penultimate top triremes of the above picture)
• Paint "ram" and "raised stern" Vallejo Gun Metal
• Paint "ram" and  "raised stern" Anita's Acrylic Bronze  
• Another Vallejo Burnt Umber Wash for "God luck"
• Mix in some Vallejo Game Colour Off White into Plague Brown for "wet-brush" highlight of deck and oars (see above top left two triremes) 
• Paint "eye" (white/black) [to do]
• Paint "coloration" to bow/stern decoration [to do] base and highlight
• Paint "sea" a "base colour" over shade [to do]
• Paint "wake and oar splash" white [to do]
• Apply Vallejo "blue wash" [to do]
• Highlight white "wave-tops" [to do]  

Every little step helps work towards the finished product ;)