Aircraft Instrument Panel Paint

One gallon required for long ez cockpit.

Aircraft instrument panel paint.

Don t forget to watch my other videos. Aircraft paint aircraft paint kits. With an oob ip paint it the base color i like tarnished black and then use a drybrush technique to hightlight the knobs dials and guages. Alas it is quite common to find that one or more of the attachment holes has to be elongated before you can get all the screws in.

The panel and guages are seperate pieces. Paint the panel then glue the guage decal on the backside and back paint it with white to highlight the guages. Aircraft spruce supplies components for a wide variety of homebuilt aircraft and discount pilot supplies. The wood instrument cluster cover is no longer available it was made by a retired engineer in omaha dicktech for his own g model he went on to make them for sale to others but has not done that is several years.

I saw the from the ground up shows on tv and remember a textured paint he used on the interior. Zolatone cockpit paint used to paint cockpit interiors excellent on fiberglass. Fortunately the screw heads will hide all but the sloppiest holes. Customer is responsible for determing whether primer is necessary for your particular situation.

Interior and instrument panel painting a friend and i are just starting our finishing kits and i was wondering what people are using to paint their instrument panels and interiors. Gives a coarse durable professional finish. See instructions for proper primer use on all surfaces in question. A corrosion preventative primer should be used on properly treated bare metal before applying your paint coat.

Primer is not included in paint kits. Hi kent i don t have paint color by number just a color match to the panel on my baron which was redone back in 1993. The color shouldn t be too dark as in those same situations a dark color will absorb the sunlight and become hot increasing ambient temperature of the flight deck requiring additional cooling system capacity for both pilots and instruments many civvie aircraft have black instrument panels but other elements of the design typically prevent.