18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

[ezmobee]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

My opinion of Easypoxy is it's fantastic. Seems very hard. Amazing coverage. I painted my boat like you'd paint your living room. Cut in with a regular paint brush and rolled with a 4" foam roller. Lots of brush strokes and roller bubbles and they ALL laid right down. Only caution is that the paint will run so you have to keep a watchful eye on it.

I need to take some updated pics of my train layout. Here are a couple I took most recently of a specific area we finished http://s176.photobucket.com/albums/w200/ezmobee/WFF/

 

[BobsGlasstream]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

ezmobee,
What is the actual size of your train layout?
It really is impressive.
Bob

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

ezmobee,
What is the actual size of your train layout?
It really is impressive.
Bob

Thanks. It's 11' x 18'. I hope to one day have the whole thing up to the level of scenic detail as that one section I photographed there. Not much happening on it this year with the boat project going on. I feel it's important for a man to have a wallet-draining hobby for the both the warm and cold months

 

[scipper77]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

I feel it's important for a man to have a wallet-draining hobby for the both the warm and cold months

I think your boat's got both the warm and cold months covered!!

Awesome trains by the way. It is unbelievable how much time and $$ you can put into those trains. Another evil "little" hobby.

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

Ha! Well hopefully this is the only year the boat takes up the winter as well. Yes the amount of money you can spend on trains is ridiculous. New scale steamers with all the bells and whistles (literally ) are around $1000 and diesels can be $500+. I am in a train club with eight other guys and many of them are retired or otherwise very well off. They have TONS of these new locomotives and other pricey equipment and it blows my mind. Fortunately it's a hobby (like boating) where you can pretty much spend whatever you want. I have a lot of lower-end stuff that I enjoy just as much. I have one steamer I paid $200 for that is absolutely gorgeous but because it doesn't have the latest command control I was able to pick it up cheap. I'm also somewhat spared because I avoid the scale sized stuff (which is the priciest) because it looks silly with all my traditionally sized stuff.

 

[CheapBoater81]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

I love the model train setups. My grandfather had one in his basement and it was huge. He modeled his after the town he grew up in and everything was era specific it was amazing. He named a business after each on of his grand kids - thats a hell of a lot of businesses with 20+ grand kids. He'd even set up a smaller train that was in an amusement park that the kids could play with.

Love the work on the boat!

~Adam

 

[system-f]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

From what you are saying it looks like the easypoxy works as advertised...great to know thanks!

That train layout is awesome! What scale are you running?


My dream has always been to have an HO scale setup running around a ledge built into the top wall of all the rooms in my house with a coupld of switch yards and tunnels through the walls into nearby rooms.

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

O gauge, and HO is far too small to be up on the ceiling

 

[Landscaping Wiz 808]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

O gauge, and HO is far too small to be up on the ceiling

Yeah, but HO won't be as painful in the event of a derailment - YEEOUCH! I'm an n scale man myself, I could model the state of Maryland in 11'X18'!

Great progress on the boat...even if it is interfering with the TRUE winter hobby - haha!

Bob

 

[BobsGlasstream]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

ezmobee,
I love the train setup. I have always wanted to build one myself but have always let life get in the way.
Great job
Bob

 

[86 century]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

The models look cool but I work with real the real thing and it sucks most of the time.

 

[STARCRAFT16SS]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

86 Century...What do you do for the Railroad???? Which Railroad...???

 

[86 century]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

conductor for good old NS

 

[vegasphotoman]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

thanks for posting the pics EZ the layout is looking awsome

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

Little bit of an update. As I mentioned previously I got the old transom out.

Here it is. Pretty wet and rot starting. Good thing I decided to go ahead and replace it. Doesn't appear have been properly sealed.

Yesterday I went and picked up a sheet of plywood for the new transom. Ended up buying a sheet of that ACX Arauco plywood from Lowes simply because I was by myself and the top 4 sheets of the regular BC stuff were warped to heck and it was worth the extra $3-4 to me to not have to lift them off Seems to be very nice wood. I got both layers of the new transom cut out, matched up and the edges sanded for a closer match. I haven't test fitted it yet as the boat it pretty well smashed up against the back wall of my garage and I didn't feel like moving it out.

I used my new heater for the first time yesterday. It worked pretty well considering how FRIGGIN' FREEZING it was outside. It took the garage from 34-54+ in the hour or two I was out there. I'm pretty confident that with a little more time and perhaps a little higher starting temp it should be able to keep the garage warm enough for epoxying.

Wired a new 30A 240V circuit in the panel (which is conveniently in the garage). My first time working in an electrical panel. I felt the best way for a newbie to tackle this was to do it with the power on. I didn't die and it wasn't very difficult.

I ordered my epoxy just now. Hopefully it arrives soon so I can start getting this dang deck put in.

 

[Huron Angler]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

Slow down buddy...you're gonna be all done before the snow melts

Sounds like that heater works pretty well, if the garage was insulated it would probably get right up into the 70s.

What kind of epoxy did you order?

 

[ezmobee]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

Slow down? It feels like I'm hardly moving.

Per PaulyV's recommendation I ordered 3 gallons from here http://www.clarkcraft.com/cgi-suppl...esin&*******=9dc4fdd1e5a2e3ba99a65448a569d333 I like the 1:1 ratio, the price, and that is appears to have been formulated specifically for what we're doing with it.

 

[tallcanadian]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

Those epoxy resin prices seem almost too good to be true. wow.

 

[PaulyV]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

Thats eaxactly what i thought Tall canadian...I was up late one night doing some searching of threads here...I stumbled on a thread from 2002..and they mentioned this product..I ordered 2 gallons and have used it all..need 1 more..I am very pleased with the end results. I did notice that it mixes and lays down MUCH better the warmer you have it. 55...ok 65---good 70-75-- Best...flows really well at this temp. The cooler it is the more you will use..took me a while to figure that out..my TRANSOM looks like a bar top!! EZEE warm it up in front of the heater for a bit if the garage is in the 40's.

 

[system-f]

Re: 18' Starcraft SuperSport restoration

Super retarded dumb question: I was looking at the epoxy and OMG it is cheap, but would 1/2 gallon of resin + 1/2 Gallon of hardner wet out the same amount of glass as 1 gallon of poly?