45" Dumas Scarab

[flraptor07]

Flush and tape it, no matter what you do water is going to get in unless you tape it. Or you could use some kind of thin rubber for a seal. I did that one time on a Genesis with some 1/4 turn hatch locks. It worked real nice as long as the rubber seal was perfect. That was the catch, keeping the seal perfect.....

[Ken_NJ]

I can actually do it either way and tape it. Matter of appearance, a slight ridge or a seam. I can add thin foam window seal between the frame and the coaming and either use the tape or not. A few options to think about.

[srislash]

I run foam for a seal on mine Ken. Works good. But if I am messing where it could flip or otherwise dangerous I tape it as well. It is my experience that these large hulls don't dump over very easy. None of my gas buds do anyway.

[Brushless55]

Cool build and I love these hulls

[Ken_NJ]

I think I just like old school! Have more pics to post, just not yet.

Since the hull is going to be painted white with black sides, and some red, I was thinking of Krylon Fusion, no primer. I've used Krylon in the past, old and new fourmula's, and Fusion with only good results so far. Any comments about Fusion?

[srislash]

I haven't had any issues with Fusion Ken, though I have only tried a couple of colours, er, are they colours, Black and White

[Scott M]

Not like I've done any serious builds, but I'd sand it flush with the deck

[Ken_NJ]

Building continues.

More photos here: http://s11.photobucket.com/user/ken_...ml?sort=9&o=24

[Ken_NJ]

Glued 1/32 plywood to the hatch frames.

[Ken_NJ]

Building the engine hatch vent covers. The first pic is a block of plywood that was used as a form.

Same slide show as 2 posts ago: http://s11.photobucket.com/user/ken_...ml?sort=9&o=24

[Ken_NJ]

Last group for now. Built the dashboard. Will glue this in later after everything is sealed with poly resin. Same with the engine hatch covers. Most of the major hatch building is done at this point. Will seal everything with resin and sand it down. Going to jump over to installing the running hardware.

[flraptor07]

Top Notch wood butcher skills!!

[srislash]

Top Notch wood butcher skills!!

Ditto... Ken, are putting drivers in?

[buddman36]

I do Remember those Days at Jenkinsons !

I'm typically a scale boat builder and I usually go for older boats. I wanted to build a FE boat from the offshore powerboat days of the 80's since I would watch the boats at the Benihanna Grand Prix off of Point Pleasant NJ. A friend recently gave me this Dumas 45" hull, so my goal is to build something that resembles Betty Cook's Kaama. I've been posting questions in the Q&A forum, figured I would start a build thread and see what other help I would get here. I'm a slow builder and procrastinator so bear with me on this.

I'll be keeping a continuous photo blog here unless I figure a better way for it: http://s11.photobucket.com/user/ken_...tml?sort=9&o=0

Here are some previous models I built. I'm no slouch when it comes to detail. The Miss Belmar is scratch built, 54" long and powered by 4 Dumas 12v motors with 4 props of course. The USS Marlin is a highly modified kit.
SS Miss Belmar: http://s11.photobucket.com/user/ken_...ideshow?sort=9
USS Marlin: http://s11.photobucket.com/user/ken_...0Marlin?sort=9
USS Marlin pool test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjELKbpJNfk
Complete USS Marlin build: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...ghlight=marlin

This is my goal.
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This is what I am working with.

I used to be a part of Jaws Race Team (Super Cat Hull) and spent many Races on the boardwalk for the Benihanna Races ! What fun it was ! We were in the P Class. When dark hit I don't remember much it was all a Blur by then ! lol

[Ken_NJ]

I've been looking for 3 figures, about 1:10 or 7" tall. I figure a motorcyclist or race car driver with helmet would do. Not easy to find. I'm not going to do the seating until I come up with drivers. Best I can find so far are wrestlers but would need to add some sort of outfit and helmets. Also looked at pilots. Would prefer the full figure then I can bastardize it.
If you know of something, PLEASE let me know.

BTW, thanks for the compliments!