46" Gas F1 tunnel build

[Darren Elson]

Left it over nite and sanded down all edges to remove excess cloth,need to give a light sanding down now ready for final coat of sealer.

 

[Martin Meijer]

Boat looks very good Darren what color do you paint ?

Here is my tune cylinder got it saturday,tuner said your boat is a lot faster with this cylinder we will see.

 

[Darren Elson]

Hi martin

thanks,im still undecided on colours yet keep playing around with different ideas,so will see

Hopefully finish sanding down the canopy an false outboard cowl tomorrow.

Next stage is primer and marker coat,the a good old wet sand with 800g paper

awaiting delivery of heater for workshop as the temps are freezing at so hopefully wont be too long and i can get it painted.

Cylinder looks goods keep us posted on results.

 

[Darren Elson]

Bit more done on the false outboard cowl,resined in the mesh and installed a piece of brass tube,this will connect to the exhaust tip using silicon pipe,mounting bracket all done and reinforced the area aswell.

all sanded down now and prepped for paint.

The main hull is almost ready just finishing of a couple of bit inside centerpod and the canopy needs final bit of filling and sanding.

Should have it all ready for paint by end of tomorrow.

False outboard cowl

 

[Darren Elson]

Hi guys

These will be the final pics like this,cos the next time it will be covered in paint

all the prep work and construction is now completed.gotta say im real happy with how its turned out and looks so far,still undecided on colours though, but either way cant wait to get it painted and start the final part of the build ready for maiden voyage

Now in primer,wet flatted ready for paint

 

[Darren Elson]

Heres the 1st pics of it now in primer

Got my new heater now so its baking LOL

Pics of it with marker coat

Once fully hardened will wet sand with 800g till all nice and smooth,any black areas/where the marker coat is left behind these will be imperfections will sort these ares out and then ready to start the top coats/colours

 

[Darren Elson]

Just finished the canopy.just gotta wait now till fully hardened ready for wet sanding

marker coat

 

[hugh hargett]

Extremely creative and fresh DAZ!

 

[Darren Elson]

Thanks hugh

Just hope it turns out ok when finished painted etc and more so performs as it should,only time will tell

 

[racejunkie538]

Looks good Daz, maybe you can try to let the exhaust gas come out off the bottom of the engine cowl instead of the rear ??

Just build in a 90 degree curve.

 

[Darren Elson]

Thanks mark

its done now,i did think about it,but the way iv done it supports the rear of the false cowl aswell

 

[Darren Elson]

Hi guys just a quick update

Finally finished the wetsanding,next step is to sort the minor imperfections that have showed in the primer from the marker coat,then got to reprime and flat again,also picked up the basecoat colours and black for the outboard cowl

just need to get clearcoat but nowhere near ready for that yet so will pick that up next week.

 

[Darren Elson]

Painted the false outboard cowl,came out ok

 

[Darren Elson]

Update

Reprimed the main yesterday and left to bake in workshop,got it all wetsanded today and just finished the big clean LOL,shes now ready for final colours hopefully tomorrow,just got to finish sorting out the canopy and get that reprimed and wetflatted.

Also decided on design so a trip down the grafix shop tomorrow with what i got etc and get that sorted while doing the basecoat colours.

 

[Darren Elson]

Well guys,its all wetsanded now and ready for final paint so not far to go now

Been to grafix shop this morning and sorted them out,they will be ready in the next few days

 

[Darren Elson]

Painted hull bottom,been baking in workshop for a few hrs now.

Just need to let it fully harden and give it a light wetflatting with some 1000g,and paint the top deck and canopy then lacquer the whole thing in 1 go.

 

[ron upton]

looks great wish i had the cash to get into gas tunnels......btw what is the gas tunnel speed record? do they use mod engines or stock etc?

 

[Darren Elson]

Thanks Ron

tbh i dont know about the record but this 1 should be pretty quick with the K30 in it.

Most run zens on there tunnels and a few run the RCMKs and get around 50-60mph depending of state of tune and setup etc

As a side note guys i have a outboard leg in reserve after doing a deal,will need to reconfigure the transom to bolt it on this 1 but i will more than likely build a new hull to suit and match the leg,all in good time,the main thing now is to test this build and work from there

 

[Darren Elson]

PICSFEAST LOL

sprayed the topdeck colour,just need to lacquer it all now but a couple of the edges of masking tape lifed so just gotta tidy the lines up then clearcoat it all.

Cant wait for the vinyl to be done now hehe

 

[Darren Elson]

pics of canopy to follow