paint for airline cockpits?

Modeling Subjects Airliners and Civil Aircraft
1

What do you guys paint the internal parts of 1/144 airlines like 737 800?

There is no detail to show off, will black give a good look ?

Thanx

Theuns

2

I build 1/72. I looked at a set of images, it looks medium gray. I’d go RLM02 LOL’s, but any medium gray. You want to at least be able to see in there.

3

OK, thanx I will go for a med grey then, did not want to show the total lack of internal detail

Theuns

4

Maybe paint the seats black or black with white shearling covers.

5

there is NO detail atall, not even basic stuff, that is the hassle …in 1/144 the really skimp lol

Theuns

6

The overall color of the office in a 737 NG is medium grey. The glare shield is black as are the circuit breaker panels behind the pilots. The cockpit door is grey. If I was building this I would glue a piece of sheet styrene vertical behind the windows and maybe a styrene floor and paint them light grey with a few black lines for visual interest. It will probably be for naught thou as the windows will scale out at feet thick!

7

I used to scratch cockpits on my 1:144 airliners, but it is a lot of work for little gain unless it is something like a stratocruiser with super-large cockpit transparencies. I have taken lately to just doing insides flat black. :frowning:

8

Hi;

When I do aircraft this small I always use U.S.N. Deck Grey . Can’t see most of anything in there anyway . T.B.

9

Thanx for the replies.

I just went with black for the entire inside, the side windows are only aboy 3mm diameter and I even put black on the inside of the cockpit glass section. In the pix of full size they seem to look “dark” anyway, so I took the easy way out LOL

Theuns

10

Naw !

That’s not the easy way , For you it was the right way , so there ! T.B.

11

I like your reply :slight_smile:

Theuns

12

Seriously…even on a series of L749’s I built, I spent a bunch of time looking at online cockpit photos (don’t you love it), then I looked at the clear part and realized that the poor pilots on the 1:1 practically had their faces pressed to the keyhole.

13

With full size’s cockpit glass being so thick I think it would be hard to see inside at almost any angle except at close to directly anyway.

Theuns