Okay, okay guys, here are pictures of my seats for the Great Planes Cessna ARF. The model’s stock interior, if left alone, looks like the inside of a canoe!! I am covering this all with cardboard which remains flexible and can be removed to enable me to get to the radio gear. I had to come up with some scale "looking" seats so I decided to try my hand with some construction foam. I found that I could sand it without it crumbling to bits.

First I drew a pattern on paper of the general layout of the seat sections (See photo of the real thing). Then I drew this on to a foam block. I then sanded the general perimeter shape. Most full-scale seats have a gentle concave shape so I used a large closet rod with sandpaper to round the centers out. I carefully cut each seat’s section apart and continued to sand and round these edges. Then I glued them back together with RC 56 canopy glue.

I did all of this rather quickly so there is a little unevenness with this first attempt as I am not building up a precision scale model, after all I started with an ARF……good only for fun scale contests! But, note their weight on the scale……..next to nothing.

The model is being redone in Millenium colors and with flaps. I will post more pictures of the plane after this weekend.