Rushby's Resins Deutz - part 3 interior detailing

I wanted to add some basic interior detail, the cab sides are open and having nothing in there would look a bit odd. So, after studying images on the NGRM-online forum I knocked up a rude gearbox cover, which sits over and hides the top of the Kato chassis. To this is fitted a drivers seat, two control levers (forward/reverse and gear selection), and a brake lever. The Kato has had its securing clips cut away on the rearmost end, which allowed me to make the cover a few millimetres narrower.

Offcuts of plasticard were used for the cover;

The seat is also plasticard, made using a holepunch, with a stand from scrap etch. The brake lever is also filed from scrap, a few minutes work resulted in something which isn't too detailed but should look the part in the dark confines of the cab. The two levers are simply .6mm brass wire with the ends dipped into Vallejo Plastic Putty filler. This is an acrylic filler, containing marble dust, which dries white and can be gently filed and sculpted once set hard, which helped me shape the knobs.

A couple of coats of acrylic auto primer (Hycote) was all that was needed paint wise apart from a coat of Citadel 'Rhinox Hide' for the seat (to represent dark wood), the brass levers being blackened with Birchwood Casey Brass Black, leaving the white filler knobs as they are.

On the footplate;

Some of the joints are a bit rough and ready, but it will be in hidden away in shadow;

Its perhaps not strictly correct, but then this loco is a freelance version of a Deutz and I just wanted something in the cab that looked about right and functional.

Paul.