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    Awesome stuff phil! Those panels look excellent!

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    overhead

    Ok, a little update on this weekends fun.

    Well to be honest, not a great deal, I decided it was time to attack the jumbo's overhead panel.

    So i gathered all the reference material, (airliners.net entire collection of 744 cockpit pictures!) a few of my own pics, sketches and a pile of real parts to measure up for fitting and then started. I decided not to go into as much detail as i did with the pedistal because i would be here for ages, still got the buzz of panel producing so i just wanted the things in my hand before the end of the weekend, but i will go into more detail soon that also includes the artwork required, and if you are wondering, I am dredding doing the artwork for the electrical and fuel panel, I can imagine its going to take several attempts before geting it right, not to mention destroying my own panels, this is going to be fun!!

    I think i spent most of the time deciding what configuration I wanted my 747, bit like buying a new car and looking through the optional extras. So on some parts I reverted to the older style -400 that used more toggle switches rather than Korrys to keep it cheap. and mine is hopefully going to be based on KLM's PH-BFG (Big Fat Git) as in the avatar, obviously I have a soft spot for that aircraft.

    So off i went and did the 3D cad work, took around 14 hours to complete and my eyes hurt afterwards, so panels started to look like this, simple


    Now it was time to cut some plastic, I decided that it would be a good idea to cut what will become the aluminium backplates for the panels out of 3mm acrylic, its cheaper to get it wrong now rather than have them made form aluminium and there all wrong.

    So here is the complete overhead I ended up with after a gruling cad session.



    Now its time to check everything fits, i had a pile of parts used during the CAD work and now had to go through everything again, checking things like clear Korry covers dont fowl the lightplate, bolt holes/screw holes are not to big or to small, Unfortuantly I dont have enough parts to fill the entire overhead but now i know real parts fit perfectly!

    Ok, I made a few errors, but out of everything I only have to re-do 2 panels, not bad really for a first attempt.




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    WOW!!!! When you put your mind to it.... you JUST do it!!!! Fantastic Phil, nice work

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    Very cool stuff Phil!

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    That is amazing work. I am astonished how much you have done is such a short period of time.
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    Wow! Excellent work my friend!!

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    Oh man....if I had the CNC and the laser...the damage that I could do to my finances buying acrylic! That's great work, and it's neat to see you able to do so much!
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    Are those real aircraft switches and annunciators?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tomlin View Post
    Oh man....if I had the CNC and the laser...the damage that I could do to my finances buying acrylic! That's great work, and it's neat to see you able to do so much!
    Yeah, there is nothing left of my finances now, beed down the acrylic shop again, bought every they had... oops

    And yeah, there real switches and annunciators

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    Ok, its Friday at last! time to continue with the fun, been very busy at work this week, got a new product to finish off which is allready 2 months late so am going to have to work over the weekend now

    But every night been spending a couple of hours in my little white room with bars on the window, this weeks little task, the FMC!!! (better than work!!!!)

    However, I must explain, when I left school in 1998 i started to have a go at sim building after getting hooked on FS98, things where going well until i came across the small problem of the FMC, and i know a few others were having the same issues as me at that time, so i gave it a go and failed misurably. So for the past 10 years i have had a personal hate against all forms of FMC's!! and was not looking forward to having another go at my own personal arch enemy!

    I cut one set a few weeks ago and tried putting it together then gave it a quick coat of paint at the start of this week, It was OK but i still thought "come on Phil, you can do better than that" so revision 3 of the FMC was designed, cut and half an hour ago assembled for the first time,

    I now think that i have won this battle, what do you think, im rather proud




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