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Cheers horses! Been beavering away to get her ready for some sea trials tomorrow. I've installed the surrounds for the new portholes (the plexiglass and Chrome bits will be added after the hulls painted). I've also added a skylight. Next order of business was sealing the hole on the rear platform. I used a thick piece of styrene sanded down for the deck. Then filed the gaps with super glue and miliput where the gap was too big. The last thing was to put in battey retainers and connect the water cooling. Unfortunately whilst testing the water cooling system for leaks I found out the was a rather a large one in the cooling jacket of the brushless motor. I think thisusy have been one source of the leaking (and explains why the water cooling wasn't working). I was able to reseal and it's all good.









Test fitting glass inserts:





Rear deck:



The gap:



Sealed



Test fitting the decking:





Not quite the basket case I started with!

Hey folks, been cracking on with this; done a lot of work on the railing. So much soldering...













Railings:

Tom you have some skill whatever you turn your hand to .

Made some progress on her, painted all the railings and grab rails, used alclad chrome. Worked ok but I haven't quite mastered it. I've added the fenders, fly bridge fittings, controls etc and I've added the bollards.

Tom,
Beautiful work. Now she needs some dash illumination for those midnight runs.
regards,
Painless.

Tom I love watching these builds that you do absolutly brilliant a true craftsman.

Thanks for the kind words horses! I'll pm you about the king now!

Painless I couldn't quite manage a lit up dash but does this work for you....

Today I fitted all the lighting and the glazing for the flybridge. I've ordered her a flag, the material for the seating covers and finally some mirror backing for the rear patio door type things.

Tom,
That is very cool to look at and will do nicely. ;o)
regards,
Painless

May I suggest a spa pool and suitable demographically accentuated women badly affected by sun and wine

With the quality of your tanks I hope this thing can 'morph' into a James Bond style mega-weapon !

Thanks Herman! No pool in this one but my latter one (ironically called moonraker!!) does. If I've learnt anything from this it's making things look realistically dirty (tanks) is far harder than getting a pristine gloss finish on a boat!!!