LööKplus is the shortest route to a cockpit that stops people in front of a cabinet. Each package is built around a factory-painted resin instrument panel from the LööK range and adds further detail parts for one specific aircraft kit, which removes the single most exacting job in aircraft modelling: painting dials the size of a pinhead. Sets are cut for scales from 1:72 to 1:32, always with the kit designation in the title.
Below we explain how the range works and how to decide whether it fits the way you like to build.
The instrument panel is the first thing anyone looks at, and it is also the hardest element to execute: dozens of dials, placards and lines of text crowded into a couple of centimetres. Eduard casts the panel in resin and supplies it already painted, with raised bezels and legible dial faces. A LööKplus package adds further parts for the same kit around that panel, so one purchase settles the cockpit. Subjects in the range run from the Spitfire Mk.IXe through the Fw 190 D-9 to the F-16I Sufa.
A resin panel has to match the shape of one particular fuselage interior, so the title always states which kit it was drawn for. For some aircraft there are variants reflecting different sub-types, for instance alternative exhaust arrangements, so select against your own boxing rather than against the aircraft name alone.
A pre-painted panel pays off wherever the canopy stays open or fully transparent. In large 1:32 aircraft kits it stands comparison with a photograph of the real article, while in the smaller scales it saves the most frustration, because the dials there are simply beyond a brush.
If you want a finished model with real presence by the end of a weekend, this range is aimed squarely at you. Purists who enjoy painting their own dials will stay with conventional etched and printed aircraft instrument panels.
To compare this approach with etch-led Big Ed packages or resin-led Big Sin packages, use the overview of aircraft upgrade sets.
