2-3 hours per engineer. A bit longer for Palins 5kly. Elite in Trading in a day with mining.
Mats per missionrunning or USS-Grinding...the rest you trade at the brokers. Starting from scratch you should have your fully enginieered FDL in about 3 weeks gaming time.
And for your information: I don't club seals...I club sealclubbers.
Somehow I find your name amusing. For a Mastodon you're quite thin-skinned.
I bet you couldnt even find a meta alloy right now to unlock farseer and get more than 20 LY jumprange to do all the stuff in this post it actulally took 5 years for you to do.