It wasn’t going to fit in the cockpit like this so had to disassemble it: Ended up with a real brake pressure gauge out of an F-18: I just wanted something like a switch or something small. I really wanted to put something in the cockpit that came out of a real F-18 so I went on a search. The middle of the DDI’s are actually screenshots taken out of DCS and photoshopped into the main pictures pulled from the Dogfight Boss plans. The pictures are printed onto high quality photopaper and installed onto the wood. Now I started to work in the instrument panel: Here is a gif of the main frame going together: Here is what the main frame looks like put together: Starting to put some of the pieces together: Here is one of the frame pieces traced onto the wood ready to be cut out: Using this thing was a life safer to cut out the printed shapes: Here are some more shapes cut out I need to put together:
Here is the very first piece printed on the paper and cut to shape which is the left base of the cockpit: Little did I know how much work was ahead of me!Īll of the cockpit pieces were printed out on paper, cut out to shape, traced onto wood, then cut out of the wood. Did a little research and off to Home Depot to buy wood and a jigsaw.
#F18 cockpit plans full#
I decided that I was going to build a full F-18 cockpit based on and the dogfight boss plans. After almost a year, my F-18 cockpit build is complete and this is how it all happened!Īfter searching around trying to figure out what kind of home cockpit I wanted to do, I saw this thread:
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