8/13/2023 0 Comments Landinding a p51 cockpit viewThis is the stick in its original condition. Yesterday I modified a Saitek AV8R stick I bought because the grip come close to the Mustang. Take care and have a safe Memorial Day weekend. I still need to add the labels, run all of the wiring, do some final painting like the white area under the dash and install the skin but it feels like I am finally getting closer to completion. My wife has seen it in parts and pieces so I brought her out for a look and even got her in the pit! She has been a great supporter of this project. This is the first time it has all been in the pit at one time and it felt really cool! I did find 3 things that I need to correct but that was the purpose of this test. I put EVERYTHING in the pit today for a final check. I will mainly use this for FSX but I do own DCS. I thought I would share what I have been working on for the last year. We do have heat and humidity in Fla and severe storms are a possibility but I don't miss shoveling snow. I retired 2 years ago and we moved from Ohio to Florida since we were tired of the Midwest winters. It will be difficult to see on the completed model.I have been following this forum for quite a while and appreciate the sharing of information to keep our hobby flying. I skipped the photo etch for the levers on the lower left side of the cockpit, these looked a bit two dimensional for me, and were difficult to manage, so I just kept the plastic levers here and painted them instead. It does not set quickly, it allows for a bit of moving about, and will dry clear and transparent without hurting any paint around it. I personally apply the photo-etch to the surface with Micro Krystal Klear canopy glue. This is a simple way to hold, apply glue, and place the piece of photo-etch I find. To fit these, I hold the small (sometimes tiny!) pieces of photo-etch using a toothpick with a small amount of blue tack on the end, shaped to a point. Any excess left on the part can be sanded off. I cut this off with a sharp Xacto blade, pressing down onto a piece of smooth, solid plexiglass (don't use your cutting matt). Sand off the raised detail on the plastic, then cut out the photo-etch piece you need to replace it with. My procedure for photo-etch is a simple approach for anyone new to it. Most of the cockpit details you can see in the photo below are detailed with the photo-etch, and it is far more detailed than I could manage with a paintbrush. The Eduard Photo Etch really came out to play now. With the large fuel tank behind the pilot simply completed in black primer, I could consider the first stage of cockpit construction completeĬockpit sidewalls were next, and after a base of black primer, they too got the interior green colour sprayed. The brown leather headrest was painted last with Tamiya XF-64 Red Brown, and finished with Vallejo Satin varnish to try and simulate the sheen of leather. The pilot headrest area was painted black, with the black getting a little more of the scratch-off weathering. Some extra weathering was applied directly over this with Tamiya Black Panel Liner, the seat then assembled, and the photo-etch seatbelts were added, and super glued into place. Just gentle rubbing was required, the acrylic paint would come off quite easily if not careful, and the AS-12 silver underneath is unaffected by the water and toothbrush action. After drying for a day, I returned with an old wet toothbrush and created the scratched paint effect you can see in the photos. I primed with Tamiya AS-12 from the spray can, and then coated all the parts in the Vallejo 71010 Interior Green. ![]() This was removed from the sprues and painted before assembly. ![]() The next step was to be a very detailed pilot seat. When done that was masked off for the rest of the floor to be painted in black primer, and then Vallejo 71010 Interior Green. Once dry I removed the Marmite with a light rubbing of a cotton bud moist with some water. To create the effect of wear in the next layer of paint to come, I applied Marmite (or you can use Vegemite!) as a mask layer onto the surface, and then applied a coat of Tamiya XF-85 Rubber Black.
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