Hi Guys,
This was constructed from plastic card and electrical wire.
The hardest part was hiding the wires from the LED's
There are a total of 27 LED's on this mast in 6 separate circuits.
The ladders are just strips of plastic card drilled out and the rungs are wire,
Everything else was made using small pieces of plastic yogurt pot and ice cream containers.
The anemometer is slightly larger then scale but it actually rotates and the vain dose point towards the wind.
I must admit it was a little tricky to make this mast.

Martin.

Hi Guys,
Well buildwise that is as far as I have got, lots more detail work to be done.
I was a bit stuck as to how to switch on and off the lighting until I came across Arduino.
So I purchased an Arduino PCB and then I looked on utube to see how to program it.
I just picked up enough programming knowledge to be able to switch the lighting on and off in a loop sequence.
There's a lot of really good tutorials about programming the Arduino on utube.
My plan is as I have to fit suppression capacitors to the motors I will remove all of the removable trays and at the same time wire it all differently as when the superstructure is complete it will be very easy to break something off just to switch Cottesmore on and off. I will also learn a bit more programming so that lighting is more controllable.
So that is about it at the moment I hope that this log has not been to boring.
I will update this log from time to time when I get back to working on her.

Martin.

Hi folks, after seeing the mast lighting from Jugge & my humble self😉
Martin sent me this video of his superb HMS Cottesmore in all her animated glory.

To watch; ignore the Invalid File sign.
Just click on it and then on the Arrow in the miniscule blue box at top left.
Your device should then ask you if you want to view the file or save it.
On a Windows PC it will probably offer you Windows Media Player as default viewer.
Watch in Full Screen mode for best effect; especially of the bridge lighting!👍
Signal lamp is sending a real message "keep away hazards area"
Happy viewing and wondering! Cheers, Doug 😎