Doing some interior work. I wanted an interesting texture in the interior, so I have replaced a lot of stuff with a quilted pattern. The material I'm using is actually Plastruct molded tile, turned 45 degrees to make a quilted fabric looking insert for the door panels and seats.
First, I cut out the stock door panel centers:
Then some magic happened, and the interior was pretty much fleshed out. I ground the centers out of the seats with my Dremel and replaced them with the pattern, as well. Messy and hard work! The armrests are bent styrene rod, warmed over a candle and bent to shape. This keeps the plastic from eventually going back straight with time.
Then to the dashboard. I had to rebuild the dash since I had to move the seats back about 6 scale inches to give the little 1:24 people more legroom. So the dash had to be that much deeper, as well. I decided to go ahead and do some fun fabrication, and you can see the fruit of that here.
With most of the interior components in place:
The steering wheel and the center console are still not present because I messed up the center console today while building it, and am not going to work any more on the car lest I mess anything up irreparably. The wheel is not in place because I still need to figure out the steering shaft geometry and the pedals. But this, I thought, was post worthy.
I am now on the fence about what color the car will be, and further confused abut the interior color scheme. Probably a dark gray for the metal bits, and a leathery brown for the inserts - though I wanted a reddish leathery orange brown, I am not sure how that will look.