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• A brief and sadly unfinished tutorial on how to create simple cockpit objects with blender.

This tutorial does not cover creating 3D instrument-mapped cockpits.

• The X-Plane scenery website has tutorials page.
• Tracy Walker wrote a Plane Maker tutorial when X-plane 7.30 was current. Much of the material is still relevant and would be useful to beginners. It's posted on the .org and can be found at http://www.x-plane.org/registry/5170.shtml
• Polished Aluminum Skins Tutorial http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Polished_aluminum_paint_tutorial
• Many tutorials to create objects with Blender:
  • The one from Jonathan Harris. You will find in the same place the export/import scripts for Blender.
  • The one from Daniel Leygnat (translation in French available).
  • The one from johnnotis.