Aircraft Instrument Panel Paint

A corrosion preventative primer should be used on properly treated bare metal before applying your paint coat.

Aircraft instrument panel paint.

For instance if you have a pe set then it s easy. Primer is not included in paint kits. 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. Fortunately the screw heads will hide all but the sloppiest holes.

The panel and guages are seperate pieces. The hardest part of making an instrument panel i believe is the accurate location and drilling of the many small instrument attachment screw holes. I saw the from the ground up shows on tv and remember a textured paint he used on the interior. 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.

See instructions for proper primer use on all surfaces in question. 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. Don t forget to watch my other videos. 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.

Customer is responsible for determing whether primer is necessary for your particular situation. 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. Aircraft paint aircraft paint kits. Aircraft spruce supplies components for a wide variety of homebuilt aircraft and discount pilot supplies.

Paint the panel then glue the guage decal on the backside and back paint it with white to highlight the guages. 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. The leader in digital instrumentation since 1979.