A daughterboat view of the stern hangar to show the flood lighting inside, the doors for this should be operational for the next update so more video
Talking of doors, the starboard hangar where the boom is, this door has caused me problems. I used a servo same as the boom to turn the shaft to open and close it. Trouble was the door would only open about an inch, even using the full 180 degree swing with arduino control. I built a gearbox 2:1 ratio, it still only opened half way
So I built another gearbox 4:1 ratio, now it opens 3/4's of the way which is about correct, first photo, now its all worky worky I finally fixed in this piece of deck which had the boom and this gearbox attached to it. Almost to the painted hull stage
So having this now working a video of which in the next update also, the door and boom will work in tandem.
I got to partially finishing the stern raised deck, stained the woodwork, put on some weathering from wet ropes to the tugger winches etc, this will be bonded in this week allowing me to make good any gaps between the deck and the hull edging before final touch up paint.
While at this end I designed the tugger winches in Coreldraw and then exported the file to my laser cutter and cut out the shapes for the winches, next few of them before and after assembly, there is an old crew figure for scale.