Thanks,

The panel is made of several layers. The back panel and the flight instrument panel were made from 1/32 balsa and thin styrene. I used sharpened brass tubes of various diameters to punch holes for the intstruments. Then I added a layer of clear plastic between the styrene and the balsa for the lenses of the instruments. I scanned the printed instrument sheet from an old Royal products cockpit kit and used photos of the actual cockpit as the basis of graphics I created using Corel Draw. I printed out the instrument faces, cut them out and glued them into position on the back side of the balsa. For the raised bezel faces, I cut out more styrene. For the bezel rings, I took small guage wire, wraped it around the proper sized brass tubing and cut a circle out and glued them on. The switches are small pieces cut from plastic toothpicks. The bolt heads are drops of alphatic resin. Then all was painted with the appopriate colors. It took two tries, but I had a lot of fun doing it.

Scott