Cockpit project

Photo gallery (old)

Neil Hewitt January 18, 2010 2 Comments

The old (MDF) sim… (up to April 2010)

The first cuts are made

Dowels and angle brackets are used to secure the joins, Ikea-style

Top panel goes on in the same manner, and the basic structure is done

Bracing structures are added to support the weight of the LCD screen

A support piece being prepared for chiselling

I ended up with four of these

Put it together with some 6mm MDF panelling and… FAIL

Glareshield frame, Take 1

The finished-off glareshield frame needed a paint first

Glareshield baffle structure with vinyl trim visible

Angle structure at the glareshield ends, freshly detailed

First panel test article

A backlit portion of the test panel

The pedestal structure, pre-painting

A wood block positioned so all screws go through MDF faces

An example of a screw splitting an MDF sheet from the side

Filled-in holes where screws were moved

Foam mini-roller for that burnished-metal effect

Pedestal frame, painted

Support pillars in place, with K7 motherboard in as a test

Completed double-deck frame for PC1 and 2

PSU shelf, Take 1

PSU shelf, Take 2

It lives! Both PCs fired up and running.

No, it’s not the Amityville Horror house…

Extension sockets in place inside the console

Extension sockets in place inside the console

Two power cords joined into one

Two power cords joined into one

The broom handle section

After drilling the hole through the middle

Flanges cut and ready to join

Plastic and wood joined together

The finished yoke rod

The yoke handle re-attached to the rod

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