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There is an interesting fact/trivia that many of the WWII military A/C used indirect red lighting that can be simulated by using a high power LED and, depending on the scale, miniature housings or fiber optics and housings. The light sources were often mounted so that they lighted the panel from the side and above, along with individual instrument "hood" lights. Some aircraft had both red and white lighting.
The instrument dial markings were generally made with radioactive paint, and many were hand painted. The painters were often women, and the practice of pointing the brushes by licking eventually resulted in a very high incidence of cancer.

The white lighting was generally not used at night. When flying in weather, by instruments, the white lights were preferred, in order to "wash out" lightening flashes. Back in the 70's I remember flying from the US to Quebec at night, in instrument conditions. The planes strobe lights were reflecting from the clouds, to the point that we had to either turn them off, or go to full white cabin and instrument lights. The flashing strobes were driving us crazy. Outside of the terminal areas, we turned the white strobes off.

One post WWII Ford sedan had driver selectable red, white, or Ford's blue/green? instrument lights. The red worked really well on the dark two lane blacktop roads of the time. Even now, some A/C have both on panel and projection instrument lighting if the A/C has conventional instruments. The projectors often have selectable red and white colors.