Hi Cees,
I never thought for a minute you were having a go, I now have quite a few instruments. and because all my plans in the past have been scuppered i was trying to find plans or advice ,help to make up a panel or at best 1/4 cockpit of a aircraft from the RAF which is non existant, to display . i still am looking into a Bristol Brigand flight panel and Miles master ,being the master was made of wood, i thought i could in a long period make up a 1/4 cockpit , by using radio control model plans scaling them up to 1/1 to build the front of the tub basicly a shroud for the panel to sit in, but the first thing i have been looking into is just the flight panels from both aircraft types. to date re the brigand I have recieved the AP and have pilots notes. the Bristol aero collection have a brigand fuselage, but this has been put into store because they have found it to contains alot of asbestos… this is what i have been told by the BAC .I have drawings for instrument panels for spitfire and He162.But German instruments are a premium so i wont be building one of those, and as much as i love the spit, i wanted to do something different .
I am quite keen on many types of aircraft, i love most of them as we all do, and if something more complete or different comes up sooner I might think of doing that instead, as i only have instruments at the mo, so most were interchangeable with various panels .. as far as i am aware on the net , ebay etc theres a company in new zealand who put drawings on cd/disc they have spit,me109,mustang etc .. all the more famous types of ww2 .
My love of aviation really centres around 1946 to 1965 , and just want to make a panel thats a bit different from the norm, I would have chose and i am interested in BeaufighterTT, brigand, attacker, sea fury, tempest II ,lincoln,Javelin,.RAF Harvard mrk 1. hastings , anything just a little different from the norm, and which no one has done as a panel project yet .. and thats about it, just panels.. I didnt ever think cockpits of these types as the flight sticks are impossible to get hold of, and i dont have the knowledge to make new castings of replica stick tops, the brigand for instance, the flight sticks are non exhistant, and they wouldnt have survived in a crash unlike the brass types used in earlier model aircraft . and they are quite rare regarding crash sites.
hence why i thought the best bet was the master , due to the large amount of them which had incidents, and the parts we cant find/replicate ,there is a chance they can be found through licenced digs, etc .
also… doing a panel ,I have no excuse not to finish , as I certainly have the room to build and make a couple of these over time, and i am being realistic for a change. and realise a nicely presented panel is just as good as a cockpit and easier to move around … 🙂
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