Inside the cockpit

I’ve spent a bit of time on cockpit details. Nothing too fancy or super-accurate. The gunsight and compass are from Mick Reeves kits- very simple (and cheap) ply and plastic items that make up into a reasonable facsimile of the real things.[Not a valid template]

I scratch built the control column, throttle and mixture levers and chassis handle from balsa, aluminium tube and bits of plastic. I made some placards using Microsoft Word and printing onto photo paper. None of this is very accurate scale, but it will give a fair representation of the interior.

The more I study pictures of the real Spitfires, the more I realise that they are all different in the details!

The external mirror was made from aluminium tube flattened, some sheet aluminium cut to shape and a styrene dome from Mick Reeves. I airbrushed them all, mostly with Tamiya cockpit green.

You can avoid all this work by spending 260 euros and ordering the parts from Inzpan  in the Czech Republic!

Check out more pictures in The Fuselage section.