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This weekend I spent on the cockpits for the pilot and navigator. With the glazing in place the process would be to build the rear cockpit tub and slide this in before the two halves of the aircraft are joined. Reference photos and drawings are a little scarce, and further confused by not agreeing with each other or various plastic model kits. This culminated in me building a rather pleasing 'Fulmar' instrument panel only to discover the reference picture had been incorrectly tagged and it was from a Firefly... In the end I decided to put in all the main features that were definitely present and add other details as looked best. As ever much of it will be barely visible through windows.
The oxygen bottles and what I think is a fire extinguisher (?) are from carved mount board or paper coiled around a toothpick and shaped at the ends. Everything else is layered 120gsm. Using CA glue to attach the windscreen assembly and the stick was a real game-changer as these parts are stuck rock solid into place. The other technique I tried copied from plastic modelling was a 'shading wash' by diluting marker pen with water and lightly brushing it over surfaces.
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