Instrument Panels,Seats

not in any way,it has,or it will have a 12Inch Wingspan! 

A Horten bomber? Even in 1/144, it's probally still a bit kit. I'm finishing up on the Ho 229 myself for the GB.

FlyBoy68 wrote:

Thanks for your help DrewI will print them out and add them to my compiled informatiom

I'm glad to help! World War I aviation is a passion of mine.

Regards,

Thanks for your help DrewI will print them out and add them to my compiled informatiom

Here's a hints and tips thread at the Aerodrome forum. The first tip is on painting wood grain.

Regards,

Hi all,

The answer is . . . it depends!

Take a look at the photos from the Memorial Flight's web site (they're a museum in France that builds flying replicas of WWI planes and restores originals to flying status). Click on each of their planes and you'll see a wide variety of cockpit interiors, seats, and instrument panels.

Generally speaking, the interior side of the fabric coverign would be light tan or beige in color. This is what the fabric covering looked like before being painted. However, on German planes with lozenge camo, the lozenge will be seen on the inside of fuselage because it was actually printed on the fabric. You'll see this if you click on the Fokker D.VII.

The Spad 13 has no instrument panel, but rather a built-in shelf for the instruments.

The Blériot XI² doesn't really have an instrument panel either. The instruments are just clamped to the frames. Nieuports were built this way too.

Many WWI planes had wicker seats. The Nieuport 28 at the National Air & Space Museum -- Udvar-Hazy Center has one. You can see photos of its restoration (rebuilding, really) with some good pictures of the seat here.

Be sure to check out Mark Miller's fantastic 3D computer cut away drawings of WWI aircraft to get a good idea of the interior layouts of a number of planes.

There are some great photos of real planes and models at the WWI Modeling Page. Try the models and photo archives search there to see if reference photos are available for the plane you're building. Even just looking at how others have painted their models can be helpful.

Finally, don't hesitate to post questions at the Areodrome forums. The models subforum is a great place to hang out!

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Thank's Guys,someone on these Forums give me a tip on how to paint a Wood Grain finish on a Propella,i just might use that very same tip on my Instrument Panels,hey, Waikong I see you have a Luft46 Icon that's my other big interest Luft46 Projkects,I also have a Horten XVIIIb Amerikan Bomber Kit in 1/144 Scale

You are correct, most WWI aircraft I know of all use plywood for the panel. They are just varnished, so no particular stains are applied.

Flyboy,

I'm not sure how much this will help but I have run into the exact same problems as you (both not knowing the interior colors and also not getting responses, LOL!).  In fact, that might be one of the reasons why I don't do many WW1 planes.  I'd like to do them, but I just have a hard time finding good reference material.  I know with some planes you could see the camoflage pattern through the sides.  For example, you could see the faded lozenge pattern on the inside of the cockpit.  However, I'm sure this does not apply to every plane.  I have a couple of the "In action" series of books on a couple of biplanes but they don't really address the interior color schemes.  Most obviously, you can't really find any color photos so that's pretty much out of the question.

If I can find anything else out I'll let you know.  Perhaps doing some web searches on WW1 aircraft restorations would help.

Eric