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No twin love seats in my Jupiter 2. I used an X-Acto saw to carefully cut the seats to size. Then laying the saw blade flat
against the floor, I removed the unwanted sections. The resulting hole in the floor was backed from below with a small piece of plastic and filled with modelers putty.
For the flight
deck control panels, I used images from the Alpha Control Technical Manual which were scanned and then colored using a paint program. I am not the artist that Ron is so I did not even try to do
this by hand. Please note, when I photographed and scanned this image, the colors did not duplicate as exactly as the original.
I'm sorry about the quality of this image. It was very
difficult to photograph let alone
scan and E-mail. The colored image of the control panel was reduced in size onto a piece of transparent film using a color copier. The molded flight control panels of detail #9, upper floor, will be cut out and then replaced with this film. The panels will then be backlit from below. To enhance the color of these details, I will overlay two images of the same panel and secure together using double faced tape.
Here is the flight deck being prepared for the control decals. The molded panels were removed by drilling a hole in the center of each and then using a flat file to remove the
material. The panel decals will be attached using double sided tape and lit from underneath. The bottom of the deck will be painted so light does not show through the plastic.
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