When they flooded the Roman Colosseum from naval battles, the underground levels were not even made yet they were actually using what was once the man made lake from Emperor Nero Palace. Yeah, the Roman Colosseum was built for the people and to solidify that fact the Colosseum was built directly on top of the man made lake that Emperor Nero had made for himself to use. And they actually use the same underground plumbing that was used to fill Nero lake to fill and then quickly drain the Colosseum of water
It was only filled with water early on, I believe only a couple of times, before they even built the tunnels underneath. Once those tunnels were built, they couldn't flood it anymore.
The first Gladiator movie wasn’t too concerned about reality, so I expect nothing less from this one. 1950s-CinemaScope-Technicolor-style Swords-&-Sandals Rome-adjacent spectacle FTW 😂
It was certainly flooded even after they built the underground. All water would then go to sewers - the same to which all the waste from gladiator cells, animals cages etc was going
1:50 the underground passage ways were initialy meant for water but were converted to tunnnels and cages for animals after it got too time consuming to flood and drain the arena
I might be wrong, but this movie might be the first time a Naumachia (Roman reenactment of a naval battle in a flooded colosseum) is being depicted on film.
I think you may be right. I've seen plenty of ancient naval battles depicted on screen. But never in a flooded Colosseum setting. This is also the first time I've ever seen a Naumachia depicted in scale model form.
It was going to be, but Amazon Prime’s Those About To Die just pipped it to the post, with one episode showing the naumachia, in which they had crocodiles attack the vessels. A bit more believable than the (what looks to be) sharks in the Gladiator 2 trailer! If it turns out to be sharks, I’m walking out. 😂
Fun fact: Parts of 'Remember the Titans' was filmed at the highschool I was attending. The football coach got sick of seeing camera crew equipment in the weight room so he had the team move it outside where it got rained on and was damaged. The school got nothing in return for his boneheaded decision. Thanks, coach!
What about putting out a call to your Patron members, give them a template, and have everybody help make the people to fill your stadium? It would look so epic filled with cheering crowds!
Fantastic build! Love the wash on the outside walls! I used to be a huge Age of Empires player years and years ago. My wife and I sometimes will just randomly say “Choppin’.”
i agree, i first watched it at school for a class term project about the history of Cinema and i think we got to watch that to get insight on the generations of movies before modern times but i do agree with you the movie deserves some love for it being based off a real story that did happen
The Colosseum was designed with a complex system of tunnels, aqueducts, and drainage channels underneath the main arena floor. When these structures were flooded, they could transform the Colosseum into a temporary lake or pool, allowing the staging of naval battles and the display of aquatic animal hunts. The process involved several steps: Blocking the main drainage channels to prevent water from escaping. Diverting water from nearby aqueducts into the substructure of the Colosseum. Raising the arena floor with removable wooden planks or platforms to create a watertight basin. Filling this basin with water, typically to a depth of several feet, creating a large body of water within the Colosseum. The scale of these naval re-enactments was impressive, with ships, crews, and even small islands constructed within the flooded arena. Naumachiae were grandiose spectacles that demonstrated the Romans' engineering prowess and their ability to transform the Colosseum into a vast, temporary aquatic stage
I’ve been inside the colosseum and was totally amazed how they flooded the arena for mock sea battles scenes … wonderful work matey brought back memories ❤
According to IMDB, Denzel Washington will play Macrinus, who became emperor after the assassination of Caracalla. I think Macrinus is one of the most underappreciated emperors, so I hope the movie does him justice.
They used the corks from all the wine they drank back then to stop the flooding of the tunnels, they were into recycling even back then. 😂😂😂 Always such a great job. I have to admit I'm a bit surprised about two things, #1 it's not like you to forget the eyes on the tiny ship, and #2 after mentioning filling the area with the crowd I thought with your attention of detail that you would at least do 40,000 attendees maybe not a full house but at least 40,000. 😂😂😂😂 But seriously I am always amazed by what you build, keep it up, it makes my Sunday. 👍👍👍
It was very funny watching this trailer in the cinema and telling the people i went with that its historically accurate (the naval battle in collosseum, im not gonna be the one who analyses all historically accurate aspects). They were surprisingly shocked about it. Looks great Mr. Hobby Time!
how can you see the dislikes cause didnt youtube remove it for the viewing audience not to see only the creators sometime around 2020-2022 and it kinda caused a problem for everyone else?
Me pausing the video to Google ship battles in the colosseum😮 I never knew that the Roman's did this, mind blown! 🤯 Thank you for the history lesson, Boylei!
Dang, that's timing, been in the Colosseum yesterday. Fantastic building. Awesome diorama as I showed my wife drawings of those ship battles in the arena.
We know that during the Colosseum’s first year it would have been technically possible to flood it with enough water for ships to sail. However, after the construction of the hypogeum-the vast network of tunnels and storage rooms under the floor, built during the reign of Domitian-holding water battles at the Colosseum would no longer have been possible. For that reason, it’s very difficult to get evidence on how the flooding would have worked.
The colosseum had just a few naval battles at the beginning before they constructed the hipogeum, after that, naval battles were made close to the Tiber.
You should try making a train set with a bridge that has a monster in the lake below, and make it so that the train has a harpoon and other supplies to get rid of it. If you do this I would be pretty happy :)
I just completed my first diorama with for a Funko Pop Fallout Power Armour pop. It's got a crumbling concrete wall and using red LED filaments for a Nuka Cola neon sign and some white ones for a barrel on fire.
I was not expecting a Ben Hur reference in a Boylei Hobby Time video but I'm very pleased to have it! I would imagine Ben Hur didn't much care for the reenactments of naval battles if he saw them as they'd probably remind him of some bad memories
If you read up on this people do not know that they did actually flood the Coliseum in about 5 ft of water and the ships were scaled down and were built with flat bottoms instead of a rounded keel. The character Denzel Washington plays is in fact based upon a real person who ruled Rome for about a year with his son.
Ahh yes, Marius and Luigius Mario, the brothers who served as Legion Engineers and who first became renowned for their work building aqueducts to carry water from the Kupa River (in modern day Slovenia); which, if memory serves, caused much strife with the local garrison commander, Bowsarius, leader of the infamous "Kupa Troopers", until the Emperor's daughter Persicia stepped in.
I think the ships could have used a more "dynamic" pose, perhaps one ship at angle as if trying to begin a boarding action. Also, some foaming action around where the oars dip into the water would have helped sell the action.
Could you imagine being part of the gladiatorial rehearsal crew?!? Born just to be the equivalent of a red shirt from Star Trek. The most expendable crew in Rome. 😧
Boylei I watch all your videos on my tv and I love them all! You do great work, and this is actually the first time I've ever gone onto youtube proper to comment on one of your videos. With that said... TRIreme?! TRI?! With ONE set of oars?! You're killin me! anyway luv u bye!
Keeping in mind they drained the estuary that became England and channeled all their water through miles and miles of ducts I’m sure they had an effective flooding system in place. Rumour has it the arena along with various surrounding balcony structures were mounted on rails so could rotate, at very high speeds!!! 😅
From the thumbnail alone I thought this model was going to be about 1/8th of the size that it is and was very surprised by the cardboard Colosseum bowl
Hi Boylei, two questions: 1) would you ever consider doing a video on an armour model, such as a 1/35 or 1/48 scale plane or tank? 2) what's your opinion on Italieri kits? I'm pretty new to modelling outside of simpler stuff like gunpla, and other people in my hobby club say Italeri is of. questionable quality. I'm guessing this is probably just an armour issue as I don't think there are any diorama modelers like you in the club but I'd like to know your brand opinions. (also anyone else in the comments with experience please weigh in)
Thanks for your questions! 1) I’m definitely open to it, but don’t have the time or patience to do anything as good as most armor/military specific modelers. Nightshift is my recommendation for that! 2) The kit in this video was the best one I’ve worked with from Italieri. They are definitely lower quality than a brand like Tamiya.
Was hoping you’d add the people, honestly. I wonder what would work? Multicolored sand or even colored sugar dragées applied to the steps? At that distance people are just texture.
the thing is: naumachia where an expensive endavour and having them in the Colosseum even more so, so they only had a handfull and it's Simple how they dealt with cellar: they build the hypogeum later and well, it's a Fantasy Film anyway
When they flooded the Roman Colosseum from naval battles, the underground levels were not even made yet they were actually using what was once the man made lake from Emperor Nero Palace.
Yeah, the Roman Colosseum was built for the people and to solidify that fact the Colosseum was built directly on top of the man made lake that Emperor Nero had made for himself to use.
And they actually use the same underground plumbing that was used to fill Nero lake to fill and then quickly drain the Colosseum of water
That’s awesome
Yes! I remember now, it was even named for the colossus of Nero, right?
Thats awesome! I wish that I had that kind of knowledge just on hand like that.
@@volyann3109 There's always the interwebs on hand...... :)
Anyone else watch Boylei to calm you down? ❤ your vids, man
same🙂
Always
Most anticipated video each week, for me!
Always
Me for sure
It was only filled with water early on, I believe only a couple of times, before they even built the tunnels underneath. Once those tunnels were built, they couldn't flood it anymore.
The first Gladiator movie wasn’t too concerned about reality, so I expect nothing less from this one. 1950s-CinemaScope-Technicolor-style Swords-&-Sandals Rome-adjacent spectacle FTW 😂
It's not even certain the Colosseum was ever flooded. However, no one lets facts get in the way of a good story 😊
It was certainly flooded even after they built the underground. All water would then go to sewers - the same to which all the waste from gladiator cells, animals cages etc was going
1:50 the underground passage ways were initialy meant for water but were converted to tunnnels and cages for animals after it got too time consuming to flood and drain the arena
I might be wrong, but this movie might be the first time a Naumachia (Roman reenactment of a naval battle in a flooded colosseum) is being depicted on film.
I think you may be right. I've seen plenty of ancient naval battles depicted on screen. But never in a flooded Colosseum setting.
This is also the first time I've ever seen a Naumachia depicted in scale model form.
It was going to be, but Amazon Prime’s Those About To Die just pipped it to the post, with one episode showing the naumachia, in which they had crocodiles attack the vessels. A bit more believable than the (what looks to be) sharks in the Gladiator 2 trailer! If it turns out to be sharks, I’m walking out. 😂
The ripple water effects made this so satisfying. I'm not sure why they feel so noteworthy here as opposed to the other times you've used it
someone probably asked what he uses for the ripple
Fun fact: Parts of 'Remember the Titans' was filmed at the highschool I was attending. The football coach got sick of seeing camera crew equipment in the weight room so he had the team move it outside where it got rained on and was damaged. The school got nothing in return for his boneheaded decision. Thanks, coach!
That is the most know-it-all arrogant teacher thing I’ve heard.
@@shinkicker404 It really was astounding.
all i can picture is the coach seeing this happen as was like "stupid stupid stupid* for destroying very expensive equipment
The tiny ship construction is amazing. I am in awe.
Don't you mean, in oar 😂
I'll see myself out
@@Dice_king I'm seeing myself out as well because you stole my line.
@@Dice_king 😬😬😬
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i always find these videos so soothing, its like an escape into another world, even if its just for 8 minutes
What about putting out a call to your Patron members, give them a template, and have everybody help make the people to fill your stadium? It would look so epic filled with cheering crowds!
Your humor is both subtle and genius.
Fantastic build! Love the wash on the outside walls! I used to be a huge Age of Empires player years and years ago. My wife and I sometimes will just randomly say “Choppin’.”
I'm glad to hear somebody remembers the Titans, that was a good movie that tends to get overlooked a lot.
i agree, i first watched it at school for a class term project about the history of Cinema and i think we got to watch that to get insight on the generations of movies before modern times but i do agree with you the movie deserves some love for it being based off a real story that did happen
As someone who has played Age of Empires II for 25 years, I approve the ships. Just don't forget your upgrades. 😂
Another beautiful work, you inspire me with your projects, I follow your steps in art! Congratulations. 👏👏👏
I see you are following the steps!! You are also talented, beautiful God of War video. ❤
Sunday hasn't started until I have my coffee while watching Boylei Hobby Time.
Love that you waited for 1 to available at your local store. Shop small.
Me seeing if Boylei was going to make 50 to 70 thousand miniature people and then Nope lol amazing build tho 😸🤘
Now I kinda want to take up that challenge lol
The Colosseum was designed with a complex system of tunnels, aqueducts, and drainage channels underneath the main arena floor. When these structures were flooded, they could transform the Colosseum into a temporary lake or pool, allowing the staging of naval battles and the display of aquatic animal hunts.
The process involved several steps:
Blocking the main drainage channels to prevent water from escaping.
Diverting water from nearby aqueducts into the substructure of the Colosseum.
Raising the arena floor with removable wooden planks or platforms to create a watertight basin.
Filling this basin with water, typically to a depth of several feet, creating a large body of water within the Colosseum.
The scale of these naval re-enactments was impressive, with ships, crews, and even small islands constructed within the flooded arena. Naumachiae were grandiose spectacles that demonstrated the Romans' engineering prowess and their ability to transform the Colosseum into a vast, temporary aquatic stage
I’ve been inside the colosseum and was totally amazed how they flooded the arena for mock sea battles scenes … wonderful work matey brought back memories ❤
According to IMDB, Denzel Washington will play Macrinus, who became emperor after the assassination of Caracalla. I think Macrinus is one of the most underappreciated emperors, so I hope the movie does him justice.
They used the corks from all the wine they drank back then to stop the flooding of the tunnels, they were into recycling even back then. 😂😂😂
Always such a great job. I have to admit I'm a bit surprised about two things, #1 it's not like you to forget the eyes on the tiny ship, and #2 after mentioning filling the area with the crowd I thought with your attention of detail that you would at least do 40,000 attendees maybe not a full house but at least 40,000. 😂😂😂😂
But seriously I am always amazed by what you build, keep it up, it makes my Sunday. 👍👍👍
It was very funny watching this trailer in the cinema and telling the people i went with that its historically accurate (the naval battle in collosseum, im not gonna be the one who analyses all historically accurate aspects). They were surprisingly shocked about it. Looks great Mr. Hobby Time!
These videos are always so relaxing to me. I would love to see all his work in a museum someday!
Very cool!
Also i did not know that they did ship battles in the coliseum 😮
... no joke but, I feel this would be a great Wild Imaginary West thing... like an in-universe board game.
If you water water , it grows
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Please stop being right
if you flood a flood it becomes a bigger flood
@@EchoARC6895 now if you flood the flood from halo, what does it become then
Three simple words 'Valley of Gwang'.... 😳🦖🙀🙀
You know your community loves you when the video has 1k likes and 0 dislikes.
how can you see the dislikes cause didnt youtube remove it for the viewing audience not to see only the creators sometime around 2020-2022 and it kinda caused a problem for everyone else?
There are extentions online to add it back @@EchoARC6895
Me pausing the video to Google ship battles in the colosseum😮 I never knew that the Roman's did this, mind blown! 🤯 Thank you for the history lesson, Boylei!
Dang, that's timing, been in the Colosseum yesterday. Fantastic building. Awesome diorama as I showed my wife drawings of those ship battles in the arena.
Great video and great work with the diorama. The real name of these battles in the coliseum were "naumaquias"
Man, I cannot wait for you to get 1 million subscribers!!!! So close now. Definitely one of the most chill and entertaining channels on RUclips.
I don't have a lack of creativity, I have a commitment to continuity
Exactly
What an amazing kit. Nice job.
We know that during the Colosseum’s first year it would have been technically possible to flood it with enough water for ships to sail. However, after the construction of the hypogeum-the vast network of tunnels and storage rooms under the floor, built during the reign of Domitian-holding water battles at the Colosseum would no longer have been possible. For that reason, it’s very difficult to get evidence on how the flooding would have worked.
Such talent and skill. Beautiful piece of work 👍👍
The underground passageways were build after they stopped using water.
The Roman’s used flex seal 💪to stop the colosseum from flooding.
Your weekly videos are the best part of my week ❤
he called it good!🥳 such a great idea to paint the walls still on the sprew
Love the symmetry
The colosseum had just a few naval battles at the beginning before they constructed the hipogeum, after that, naval battles were made close to the Tiber.
This is so visually cool! Love how you get a conceptual idea and present it in your own unique and wonderfully creative way!! Great job Boylei!
G'day again to you!, Well done once again,1/500 what a Great Finish you did! Perth West Aust.
Had no idea I could zoom in on RUclips videos until I watched this tonight, thanks
What a cool diorama. Having visited the colosseum before I can say you did a great job on it.
7:34 mmmm Gatorade
Thank you for this video! ☺🌺
Ahhh... A rehearsal!
I trusted you'd either put in all the people or explain their absence.
Can you make an horror diorama
I just got a whole bunch of models from my grandpa and your videos are inspiring me to create my own story thank you
You are so entertaining! Your work is amazing. Thank you!!
Didn't know there was a model kit for this. COOL. Great job.
You should try making a train set with a bridge that has a monster in the lake below, and make it so that the train has a harpoon and other supplies to get rid of it. If you do this I would be pretty happy :)
It would be awesome if you made a wild imaginary west ship in a bottle fighting a sea monster
I just completed my first diorama with for a Funko Pop Fallout Power Armour pop. It's got a crumbling concrete wall and using red LED filaments for a Nuka Cola neon sign and some white ones for a barrel on fire.
You should build Noah’s ark next
Stunning work. 👏👏
I was not expecting a Ben Hur reference in a Boylei Hobby Time video but I'm very pleased to have it! I would imagine Ben Hur didn't much care for the reenactments of naval battles if he saw them as they'd probably remind him of some bad memories
A wild imaginary west lawman facing down several mutant bandits would be cool.
age of empires is a nostalgic and welcome deep cut. would love an age of empires themed diorama one day
If you read up on this people do not know that they did actually flood the Coliseum in about 5 ft of water and the ships were scaled down and were built with flat bottoms instead of a rounded keel. The character Denzel Washington plays is in fact based upon a real person who ruled Rome for about a year with his son.
Lucius Septimius Severus ruled 193-211 AD.
Yeah he went a little nuts towards the end of his life.
Thought he was Hercules.
See don't eat of of lead plates. 🤷🏼♀️Just saying!
01:50 The Romans used the best Italian plumbers in the empire to keep the water in the arena.
Mario and Luigi 😂.
Ahh yes, Marius and Luigius Mario, the brothers who served as Legion Engineers and who first became renowned for their work building aqueducts to carry water from the Kupa River (in modern day Slovenia); which, if memory serves, caused much strife with the local garrison commander, Bowsarius, leader of the infamous "Kupa Troopers", until the Emperor's daughter Persicia stepped in.
@@Savyon0peachy reply 😂
I think the ships could have used a more "dynamic" pose, perhaps one ship at angle as if trying to begin a boarding action. Also, some foaming action around where the oars dip into the water would have helped sell the action.
Could you imagine being part of the gladiatorial rehearsal crew?!? Born just to be the equivalent of a red shirt from Star Trek. The most expendable crew in Rome. 😧
Moving back to Malaysia from Taiwan tmrw and this really cheered me up alot
I didn't even know this kit was a thing, very cool
One of the best so far!!
“Claymores”…… bringing back some PTSD from my CoD Modern Warfare days
After the credits, I just imagined you ripping two beyblades in that and I couldn’t stop laughing
I been looking for this model for years
The fact that this happened blows my mind. Awesome execution as always, man!
That was an awesome job. It turned out good. Now imagine how long it took to buy the real thing.
How do you remove the tiny figures off their bases without also cutting off their feet? I've always wondered.
I love the way this model came out! You should make a diorama of the Bill cipher statue from the end of gravity falls
Boylei I watch all your videos on my tv and I love them all! You do great work, and this is actually the first time I've ever gone onto youtube proper to comment on one of your videos.
With that said... TRIreme?! TRI?! With ONE set of oars?! You're killin me!
anyway luv u bye!
You did the thing with the sails again... it's some weird-ass winds in that Colosseum...
That was neat. Thank you so much!
Well this was a funny way to learn that they're making a sequel to Gladiator.
Very smart to make it a film set in stead of creating a billion people. Love the Caesar Salad Bowl joke by the way
Sweet lord, that primer section got me in stiches 😂
Great. I like your work.
Keeping in mind they drained the estuary that became England and channeled all their water through miles and miles of ducts I’m sure they had an effective flooding system in place.
Rumour has it the arena along with various surrounding balcony structures were mounted on rails so could rotate, at very high speeds!!! 😅
Amazing build boylei but I still want to see a giant wiw giant spider crab attack
From the thumbnail alone I thought this model was going to be about 1/8th of the size that it is and was very surprised by the cardboard Colosseum bowl
This was good fun :D
Beautifully done!!
I just call em like I see em, and that is a fine diorama 👍
You can almost see a polnareff behind one of those pillars
Styrene trireme, nice.
Love that you reference one of his best characters ever, John Q 😅
Rowdy Imaginary Romans. Let’s GO!
The John Q line got me!
Hi Boylei, two questions:
1) would you ever consider doing a video on an armour model, such as a 1/35 or 1/48 scale plane or tank?
2) what's your opinion on Italieri kits? I'm pretty new to modelling outside of simpler stuff like gunpla, and other people in my hobby club say Italeri is of. questionable quality. I'm guessing this is probably just an armour issue as I don't think there are any diorama modelers like you in the club but I'd like to know your brand opinions. (also anyone else in the comments with experience please weigh in)
Thanks for your questions!
1) I’m definitely open to it, but don’t have the time or patience to do anything as good as most armor/military specific modelers. Nightshift is my recommendation for that!
2) The kit in this video was the best one I’ve worked with from Italieri. They are definitely lower quality than a brand like Tamiya.
Was hoping you’d add the people, honestly. I wonder what would work? Multicolored sand or even colored sugar dragées applied to the steps? At that distance people are just texture.
This is really cool
The locals describe rome as a city lasagna. There is so much more under the city than you can see. You can check out the aqueducts if you go.
the thing is: naumachia where an expensive endavour and having them in the Colosseum even more so, so they only had a handfull and it's Simple how they dealt with cellar: they build the hypogeum later and well, it's a Fantasy Film anyway
Aahhh the “Age of Empires” ships.❤