A drybrysh with alluminium on the ruder pedals & a general light drybrush with white oil paint will be FINE


Cheers Nick

Troy, it looks really good as is, BUT, if you want to show it later in it's service life then you need to show much more wear on the floor and rudder peddles. So some dry brushing with aluminium and a wash of dark brown (dust and dirt) and some chipping on the panels and you are good. OR just leave it as is and it looks factory fresh Less to weather on the outside that way also.

Good looking cockpit! Cockpits are generally clean and not dirty but do show signs of wear over their service life, as anything does. Washes over top of washes are usually fine as long as the previous one has dried thoroughly. If your next wash is really 'wet' then it may try and lift and mix with the previous one a bit if you're using acrylic paint, especially if you don't work quickly. With oils you should be fine as long as the previous layer is absolutely dry.


Bob

Hi Troy, and welcome to Aeroscale. Great to see another Aussie join the fun !!

The trick is to start off light and add effect until you get what you want. It's easy to add a bit more, but really hard to take it off again in the cockpit !!

Cheers, Damian

Drybrush with alluminium here

Cheers Nick

Well, having working on and with military aircraft for 21 years I think I can shed some light on the subject. Basically, an aircraft can look like brand new even after being in service for 30 years, IF it has just come out of a major service.. Or an aircraft can look 100 years old if it is in the middle of an exercise operating off dusty or dirt airstrips. ANytime an aircraft goes on exercise they normally start to look pretty second-hand with dust build up in corners etc, but the instruments and panels will normally be clean as they are one of the things included in pre-flight servicings.
Cleaning aircraft is also a good way of keeping bored aircraft maintenance workers from thinking about things that might take their minds off the job at hand, so in lulls in operations aircraft tend to get cleaned more often.
Another factor is how long the aircraft tended to survive their operations in wartime. Many brand new aircraft never came back from missions so their cockpits never got a chance to get worn looking.
So as you can see you could argue that a cockpit can look spanking new, down to very second-hand depending on many factors. And of course in a wartime situation everything changes again so there is really no definitive answer as to how dirty your kits cockpit should be, or how worn looking.
Basically, however YOU want the cockpit to look is all that matters..

Agree with Damien, Troy, but be aware of where the aircraft was operating. The colour wash you use will be determined by where it operated. A wash is a great idea as it builds up in the corners just like real dust.

Keep up the good work mate!

The Kyofu was a seaplane fighter so I imagine the following wear in the cockpit:

1. Sand in general
2. Scratching from buckles on the aircrew and seat harnesses
3. Scratching from maintenance tools and hardware
4. Light corrosion

any other ideas?