pretengineer
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First post here, hopefully I'm doing it right and this has gone into the right place.
As the title says, I hope to build an X-Wing simpit in time for May the Fourth. I'm currently working on the game portion of this in Unreal Engine, and hoping to have all the switches and buttons trigger elements within the game environment.
I'm turning to the physical build of this - starting with research and identification of controls within the cockpit. I'm struggling to find any good reference for the accelerometer(?) - the funny-looking ball thing on the upper left control panel. From what I can tell, there seem to be two versions of it - a sphere, and a flatter almost dome-like disk. I assume this is just a difference between these two versions of X-wing... If anyone has any good reference images (or even better, can ID the part) of either style, I would be forever grateful.
I'm sure there will be many more parts that I'll struggle with, so would also be oh so grateful if anyone can point out anything that has already been ID'd.
Font left, close to camera, showing the flatter "accelerometer" as seen in The Mandolorian.
The spherical "accelerometer"
As the title says, I hope to build an X-Wing simpit in time for May the Fourth. I'm currently working on the game portion of this in Unreal Engine, and hoping to have all the switches and buttons trigger elements within the game environment.
I'm turning to the physical build of this - starting with research and identification of controls within the cockpit. I'm struggling to find any good reference for the accelerometer(?) - the funny-looking ball thing on the upper left control panel. From what I can tell, there seem to be two versions of it - a sphere, and a flatter almost dome-like disk. I assume this is just a difference between these two versions of X-wing... If anyone has any good reference images (or even better, can ID the part) of either style, I would be forever grateful.
I'm sure there will be many more parts that I'll struggle with, so would also be oh so grateful if anyone can point out anything that has already been ID'd.
Font left, close to camera, showing the flatter "accelerometer" as seen in The Mandolorian.
The spherical "accelerometer"
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