Instrument panel

I need a dashboard( panel) to put in my latest creation.
Nothing super, just a print of a typical panel.
Size is not important, as I can enlarge or reduce the size on my printer, copier.
If you guys could put in a print ,picture to copy I would appreciate it.Who knows, maybe someone else could use them too!

Thanks
Charlie Pate

Here is the one I put together for my Skylark. Not technically accurate but looks OK behind the smoke canopy.

The instrument panel is OK, but the pilot looks a little fuzzy.

Wow that pilot is flexible!

Cool looking cockpit Bob!

That's his tail, you know lions don't sit on their tails

Got it now, I thought that was his foot! It's really nice of you to cover the fuse in carbon for the Tiger safety. Hope you installed an airbag for him also.

Maybe the next inflight video can be watching the Tigers expression when he complete's the reverse wingover for the first time!

I have several sizes for scale cockpit work. I can copy them and send off to you if you send me a SASE. Mine are 1/4", 3/8",and 1/2" plus a couple already sized up for the larger stunt birds.

I use photos from the flying magazines or the advertisments they keep sending. In color too. I loved the instrument panels in most guys planes in the fifties, they all had automotive instruments and looked more like 1949 Studebakers than Pipers or Mustangs.

>I use photos from the flying magazines or the advertisments
>they keep sending. In color too.

Ty M beat me on posting this idea. The photos from the general aviation magazines (Flying) in their articles and advertisements sometimes give some very nice looking instrument faces. Depending on how far you want to go, with some sheet styrene plastic or with 1/64 or 1/32 ply, you can make a nice instrument panel. Drill holes with sharpened tubing to the desired diamter. Paint the panel the desired color. Make instrument cases from short lengths of aluminum tubing and place the instrument dials inside the tubing, with the tubing almost flush with the face of the panel. You can even get fancy by cutting clear plastic discs to fit in front of each instrument face, inside the aluminum tubing. This works if you have a slight lip or swaged edge at the rim of the aluminum tubing which will lock in the clear plastic and the instrument faces. (To get this is to cut the tubing to length by rolling the tube with your Xacto knife - leaves the swaged edge to what you want depending on how much pressure you use while cutting the tubing.) I have done semi-scale and scale instrument panels this way to good effect. Looks better than just a piece of paper with some instrument faces printed on it.

I have often used the approach as Keith described. Looks great and is pretty quick.
A *really* quick method is to make a 1/32 ply face, cut holes with your dremel and a pointed stone grinder (actually burn the holes through), mark the back plate where the holes are, glue on instrument faces, ink everything else black, lay a piece of thin clear plastic over this and then glue on the front. I paint the face plate with Artist Acrylics (Apple Barrel, etc.).
You can paint the inside of the holes with anything silver (I use a Pentel silver paint marker) and you have a real nice looking dashboard. Add a couple round head pins in different colors for throttle, brakes, etc.. Takes about as long to do it as it did to write this.

Bill <><

Charlie Chan:

Which version are you?

Warner Oland

Sidney Toler

Roland Winters

Yours truly,

Key Luke ("Number One Son")

He's the NASHVILLE version..... "Alittlebit Kuntry"
Hi Charlie, ready for the butt whooping in a couple weeks? You AND Buzz have one comin'! :lol:
Bill <><

Bill
As far as the butt wupping goes; all I can say is " come and get it!
To the rest of you guys " Thanks for tour help"

>I use photos from the flying magazines or the advertisments
>they keep sending. In color too. I loved the instrument
>panels in most guys planes in the fifties, they all had
>automotive instruments and looked more like 1949 Studebakers
>than Pipers or Mustangs.

Ah yes, the '49 Stude...Last year before the Bullet nosed jobs of '50 and '51, immortalized by Miss Piggy in one of the Muppet movies.

The family car was a '49 Studebaker Land Cruiser when I was young.
First car I "drove".
Granddad also bought a couple $50 Champions to resell. Wish I still had one.
Bill <><

I don't particularly care for the "which way" 47-52 Studes. But they are interesting curiosities.

I like the 53-54 Starliner and Starlight coupes, and the redesigned Brook Stevens jobs for 62 and 63.

The really weird one is 58 badge-engineered Packard version, with the Hoover vacuum cleaner nose, and fiberglass fins stuck on.

You can't beat the 37 Stude pickup for high style.

I saw an 80s version Avanti yesterday. Didn't look as good as the original.

Granddad also had a '53 (??) 3/4 ton Stude pick up. Dark Green, wish I had that one, too!
The "Hawks", including the Packard, where my favorites followed by the Starlight coupes. The Avanti was a little too angular for my taste.
Bill <><

Check these out at Hobby Lobby.
http://www.hobby-lobby.com/instruments.htm

Greg,

Yea, but what about the scale. Looks like most of these are 1/4 and 1/5 scale. I seem to remember that most stunt planes fall in the 1/6 or 1/8 scale range. No?

Right on Randy. Guess I got a little to excited too soon. Grins