paint for airline cockpits?

With full size's cockpit glass being so thick I think it would be hard to see inside at almost any angle except at close to directly anyway.

Theuns

Seriously...even on a series of L749's I built, I spent a bunch of time looking at online cockpit photos (don't you love it), then I looked at the clear part and realized that the poor pilots on the 1:1 practically had their faces pressed to the keyhole.

I like your reply :-)

Theuns

Naw !

   That's not the easy way , For you it was the right way , so there !    T.B.

Thanx for the replies.

I just went with black for the entire inside, the side windows are only aboy 3mm diameter and I even put black on the inside of the cockpit glass section. In the pix of full size they seem to look "dark" anyway, so I took the easy way out LOL

Theuns

Hi;

When I do aircraft this small I always use U.S.N. Deck Grey . Can't see most of anything in there anyway .  T.B.

I used to scratch cockpits on my 1:144 airliners, but it is a lot of work for little gain unless it is something like a stratocruiser with super-large cockpit transparencies.  I have taken lately to just doing insides flat black.  :-(

The overall color of the office in a 737 NG is medium grey. The glare shield is black as are  the circuit breaker panels behind the pilots. The cockpit door is grey. If I was building this I would glue a piece of sheet styrene vertical behind the windows and maybe a styrene floor and paint them light grey with a few black lines for visual interest. It will probably be for naught thou as the windows will scale out at feet thick!  

there is NO detail atall, not even basic stuff, that is the hassle ....in 1/144 the really skimp lol

Theuns

Maybe paint the seats black or black with white shearling covers.

OK, thanx I will go for a med grey then, did not want to show the total lack of internal detail

Theuns

I build 1/72. I looked at a set of images, it looks medium gray. I'd go RLM02 LOL's, but any medium gray. You want to at least be able to see in there.