Michal
Your seat is outstanding. Excellent work. And lots of detailing. I love it. I was thinking of using car seats in my sim, but it is not an option anymore.
Have to replicate the real deal in some kind of way;)
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Michal
Your seat is outstanding. Excellent work. And lots of detailing. I love it. I was thinking of using car seats in my sim, but it is not an option anymore.
Have to replicate the real deal in some kind of way;)
Ar ha! :D
Gwyn, i am trying to find a decent idea to base my trim wheel on. Basically how are you making them?
Keep me posted on your progress!
Thanks, Geremy
Cheers! :p
I used two rings cut from MFD as well. Both were cut with a slight angle and a piece of 1/8" plywood was sandwiched between the rings.
The slight angle gives them that Boeing look of the real wheels. After filling and sanding, they look prety close to the real thing. At least from the top.
Another builder with the real wheels sent me the dimensions.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...ttlescrews.jpg
I might not tell you this now, after all your hard work, but Simparts do sell replicas. And they look pretty darn good! Check my website, under TQ. :)
BTW: VERY good work on that TQ!!!! Impressive!
Yeah, I found that out after the fact.
I'd have to agree with you there. After building that outstanding shell, car seats just aren't going to cut it in your sim. ;)
Car seats were never an option for me. I was either going to buy a real one or build a copy. The real ones were out of my budget though, and then it would still in all likelyhood need refirbishment to make it look good. $1400 for a set of Weber cushions and seat covers was also a little beyond my means.
This copy was around $260 including the harness, seat upholstery, and hardware. It would have been more, but I already had the lumber, seat legs, and other assorted pieces and parts.
Michael,
That seat really rounds out your project immensely. Very good work my friend! It is inspirational. I, however, will go the car seat route. The corporate jets have quite different seat assemblies, and so I guess I have lucked out once again on this area of compromise. I really like what you have done and it proves that a great Boeing seat replica CAN be built to satisfaction.
Viarf, in an effort to look at your site to see the replica trim wheels, I noticed the following on your front page:
"NOTE: The image to the left is NOT my simulator!!! Quite a few dudes has emailed me about my "extremely nice simulator". All I have to say about that is: Read the different pages about the different areas of the sim."
THAT is so funny, because I cant tell you how many times I was emailed from different people asking me about my project, because I too had a Flight Safety International B737NG sim photo on my site's frontpage, which did btw have a text advising it was from FSI, not myself! In fact, I had some representatives from two different aviation companies email and ask for a quote for me to build them a sim. Yeah, right. I was flabergasted to say the least!