Apostol Felipe by travis - OcCre - 1/60

[travis]

Continuing railings and wales.

 

[travis]

Railing is finally shapped and glued.  Broke a lot of wood in the process. Used a wood burner with heat turned down.  Made multiple curve templates.  Thanks you occre providing a lot of extra wood for this size!!

 

Worked on later parts when I would get frustrated.

[travis]

Deck gratting in.  Rudder almost ready.

[travis]

Bow bulwark with gilded adornments.  

 

Also working on the doors. Really don't like the metal doors.  Painting them just looks like an afterthought.  But fabricating at this scale is a challenge!  Worked through lots of samples. Here are my latest alongside a painted door. Far right one is window screen on thin plexiglass, adhered with clear parts/window maker cement.  Probably going to ditch the double door jamb style from metal.  Just too small/thin and hard to bend.  The upper aft breezways on the model also have the extra adornments that the imagery gets glued to.  Don't really like the images so I'm going to play with option to fabricate them a little differently and maybe add some windows instead.

[travis]

Feeling better about the doors.  They just take a while to kick out with the thin wood bended frames.

Also set the first aft breezeway in place.

 

[travis]

Placing some of the doors and more deck details.  Good time for a light check!

 

 

[Ronald-V]

Those lights look great!

[LoydB]

This ship is one of my favorites just on looks. And I'd love the schematics and code for the Arduino, that's such a great job.

[travis]

Lots to add since last post.  Finished the aft galleries (decided to change some the the door styles and all the doors are scratch made).  Gun ports in place (haven't decided how i want to hold them open yet.  Scale is small rigging but not crazy about just gluing them).  Some deck items added (scratch made pumps, ladders, capstans).

 

[travis]

Working on the carriage guns.  Again, pretty small and kit was just glued on place without rigging.  Had a few 3/32" blocks and fabricating more to at least have some of the cannon rigging in place.

[travis]

On 7/28/2025 at 6:56 AM, LoydB said:

This ship is one of my favorites just on looks. And I'd love the schematics and code for the Arduino, that's such a great job.

@LoydB Don't have the computer the circuit was designed on readily accessible but as soon as I do, I'll put it all in github and let you know.  Should be pretty universally for any build and pretty easy to expand the number of unique circuits by just daisy chaining more bit registers.  I bet the nano processor could do a good job with four of them which would create 32 unique lighting patterns.  Add a Bluetooth receiver and might even be somewhat controllable! (That might be on my next build , the occre bounty)

Edited Sunday at 11:38 PM by travis

[Ian_Grant]

Beautiful job so far!

 

Is having two adjacent capstans historically accurate though?

[travis]

10 hours ago, Ian_Grant said:

Beautiful job so far!

 

Is having two adjacent capstans historically accurate though?

Migt not.  I can't find evidence this particular ship actually existed as part of the spanish silver fleet so hard to say.  It still a good looking ship, even if it wasn't real so I'm just using this on more for artistic and fun than accuracy!