Well, thanks everyone for the great responses on cutting the panel. And thanks Mark for posting your cad file on your webpage so I had a starting point. Just did a little stretching on it as my boat is 43" wide on the outside. Minor changes still need to be made and of course there is always the unexpected stuff. I have uploaded the "final" draft design here. http://www.kr2seafury.com/7.html The aluminum part of my panel is actually quite small at only 10x14" so I drew that up as a separate DWG file to send out to be cut with a flo-jet. All the other stuff is being mounted in the 1/4" birch main panel covered with black laminate which I think I can cut ok. Still thinking about color for the interior. Since the plane will be all painted up in military colors I am thinking sea foam green cockpit and black panel as it would be in the real thing.
Craig www.kr2seafury.com
