Thanks everyone. I appreciate the kind comments.
Below is a series of shots showing where we stand today. First up, we have the front seat installed in its final position. The cushions are made of Milliput painted to look like leather. Seat belts are Eduard PE. Once again the camera flash has revealed some needed touch-ups as there's a small gap in the black on the control column grip and the red ejection handle to the pilot's right, once neatly painted, must have dissolved a bit in CA glue accelerator as it looks a bit ragged. This will be easily fixed.
Next two views show the instrument panel installed and the throttle quadrant highlighted. The slots in the quadrant were blackened with a 0.2mm felt pen. Also of note in this picture is the work on the pilot's headrest. As Terry pointed out earlier, the kit part was incorrectly shaped (compare now with the shot in post 35) and I fixed this by cutting off the headrest just below the leather cushion and making a curved piece of plate using card. This was then glued on so that the plate swept forward and up to the headrest, rather than up then forward as molded on the kit. To get the pilot and R/O seats to properly line up, I had to cut dowm the kit part representing the ejection mechanism under the two rounded "shoulders" on the tops of the seats. If I didn't do this, the pilot's seat sat too high and a large gap showed up where the shoulders should almost meet.
Next we have the R/O's position. Once again, the seat cushion is molded of Milliput. Because this seat was shaped differently, I did not provide a cushion for the back rest. The edges of the seat and all the other corners received a drybrushed RLM 76 treatment to highlight the raised areas.
The view of the pilot's seat from the rear quarter shows the modified foot rests made of copper wire.
Below is the port side of the cockpit with some good kit-provided detail. However, I added the R/O's oxygen hose from copper wire. The wire bundle connecting the various boxes was made from a coil of extremely fine copper wire that I found inside a magnetic security access card. This coil is ideal for making these bundles. The bundle obviously still needs to be painted and the wires will be done in a dull yellow.
Next we have the starboard cockpit wall. Once again, the oxygen hose was added using copper wire. Here's one area that the kit disappoints as the area in the R/O's position on this side is completely void of any detail whatsoever. It appears from section drawings and a look at the Aires part for this area that there should be plenty of detail here. I will likely try to emulate what Aires have provided on their resin part based on photos but if anyone has a photo reference of this area they could share, that would help me. Also seen in this shot is another wire bundle I added under the electrical boxes just forward of the oxygen hose using the same material described above. It's still gray here but will be painted the same dull yellow as on the other side.
That's all for now. Thanks for looking in and for your patience. It's a bit slow going here.