Really enjoying all this SE5 exchange....here's a few shots of my dashboard for my 1/4 scale so far.. I had the good fortune about ten years ago to do a walk around of F-904 at Old Warden England and get my own shots. I then scanned all the guages into photoshop, corrected the distortion and redrew and sharpened them and printed out my own faces.
On the dash board I have about 100 hrs. invested..the contol column last week another 15 hrs. ( don't know where I got this habit of writing my time invested...just to prove how insane this all is I guess, LOL) still lots of little goodies to make and detail before this area can be covered in, thats why the wood profiles are still visible above in the photos.
My approach is to get as much done in the cockpit now because it will be virtually impossible to do it retroactively...and to be honest I dream about making these parts and how I will solve the particular problems trying out all sorts of techniques I've learned...its a pain but the satisfaction I get is worth it in the end.