Phew, it's been a while! Thanks to you all for the encouraging words!! I haven't stopped working, things just seem to take so long.
But, I guess that small steps are better than no steps at all.
From the top, the seat & cushion which have been seen here before, but now mounted to the horizontal pipe supports.
Schwarzlose guns painted & treated with a bit of graphite (which barely shows up in this photo)
Compass made from a few PE pieces in the Part set, but modified a bit by adding a styrene body & wire mounting stem to fit on the floor. I also redrew the compass face & printed it on clear acetate.
On the middle left is a square with the moiré dots, which is the port side control panel. I drew that up in CAD & printed it on clear acetate. I added a piece of Bare Metal Foil on the backside & added valve handles made from wire.
In the middle is the starboard throttle control (I think). Made from various pieces of wire, styrene & though it's hard to see, there is a wooden knob there, too.
For the control stick assembly, I used the Part PE control handle, & scratch built the rest from styrene, brass & wire.
The seatbelts are a combination of foil, paper, wire & paint.
I edited the Part artwork for the gauges in Photoshop a bit to make it look like those gauges on Kolman's plane. Those were printed on clear acetate & sandwiched between the PE pieces.
I used the usually unwanted side effect of too much Tamiya flat base to create part of the splotchy look of the material on the intake manifold. Magnetos from another Roden kit were added. Although practically invisible in this photo, I added the "T" shaped levers to the valve spring tops.
That's all for now, thanks for looking!
Steve
