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Gentleman, it is my pleasure to introduce the Public Release of SimVionics (http://www.simvionics.co.uk). Phil Lambert has been hiding in the shadows for a couple of years researching and Perfecting his creations. Some of you know him for his Map panels as shown below, and some of you may know him for his Dzus replicas. Regardless if you don't know Phil.. You will now. Phil was most recently fammed by his stall at FSWeekend and will join the ranks with the other professional product suppliers who contribute in our hobby with quality products day after day.
Please give Phil and Simvionics a warm welcome.
In the meantime, here is an example of some of Phil's work. Let the ordering begin.
http://www.simvionics.co.uk (http://www.simvionics.co.uk)
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gentlemen....
i just want to add that Phil is one of the 'real nice guys' in this hobby. not only is his level of quality absolutely fabulous, doing business with Phil is not only a pleasure, it's fun.
when people make you laugh, you have a great relationship. and i always have fun talking to Phil.
Rhys and Phil were just superb at Lelystad and the stand got a lot of attention.
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good luck for the future Phil, you deserve it......
regards ... ian
I agree with Ian, Phil is a great guy and a pleasure to do business with..... his prices are very reasonable and affordable, delivery is quick and the quality is topnotch.
Here's some of the 767 panels that Phil has made for me:
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Regards,
Henry
Wow, those panels look amazing :o I might be in for a couple of those map light panels at some point.
I wish the guys at SimVionics all the best with their new venture :cheers:
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Phil made these custom panels for my pedestal...amazing quality and as said above doing business with Phil is a treat.
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I just bought two ADF panels. 737 style :)
Need to complete the pedestal.
Congratulations to Phil for his shop 8)
Nice work Phil and congratulations on your new enterprise.
Great panels Phil and congratulations on your new business :) love the panels (but you already know that)
Nihad
Phil will be responsible for me building a 767 also...next to the 737 and the cessna.....
sigh...i need a bigger house...Thanks Phil ;-)
Good luck with the new business....
Stef
Good luck Phil - my order is in!
Ralph
Good luck with the business Phil - your attention to detail is amazing.
Cheers
Mike
Hey Chaps..
Well, what can i say? i still have to pinch myself and ask the question how did i get here??? but seriously thank you all for your kind words and support it really means a lot and makes the endless late night playing with LED's and lasers, milling machine's and moulding machines definitely worth it:) and not to mention several injury's i have suffered from late night fatigue on a milling machine :idiot:
Yup Ralph, most or yours is now done, assembling the PCB's tonight, have a whole heap of stuff to send out on Friday yours will be included and some Dzus for that welsh boyo also ;)
Good times ahead me thinks, well i better go and make some more backlit porn, hehehe you should see what i have in front of me of a kind of "grey-ish" colour but cant show you yet until its finished and also judging by the comments of one Mr Stef on a previous thread i better go into hiding if i do :)
But seriously chaps, hand on heart thank you from myself, it really means a lot, wish me luck :)
Phil
Glad to hear things are going so well for you Phil. You don't need luck.. you already have the skill and talent. Great stuff, please keep us informed of your progress..
And by the way.. You have to keep an eye on those boys from Wales.. You never know what kind of trouble they can get into with the missus credit cards..
Trev
Quote from: phil744 on December 09, 2009, 01:21:39 AM
Yup Ralph, most or yours is now done, assembling the PCB's tonight
Assembling pcb's!!!
What marvel are you producing now 8)
This should be interesting... ;D
Cheers
Mike
Quote from: phil744 on December 09, 2009, 01:21:39 AM
you should see what i have in front of me of a kind of "grey-ish" colour but cant show you yet until its finished and also judging by the comments of one Mr Stef on a previous thread i better go into hiding if i do :)
Just show us the pictures and worry about getting killed later ;-) ;-)
Stef
I hope it's what I think it is. But I can't say anything about it if it is.
Well, I received my order from Phil and, of course, the quality is outstanding. I then turned over one of the side wall map chart panels and read the following:
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I am gob-smacked!!
Wanders off shaking his head in amazement.
Ralph
Quote from: Boeing Skunk Works on December 09, 2009, 05:15:22 AM
I hope it's what I think it is. But I can't say anything about it if it is.
I don't care, I want one, whatever it is :)
Ralph
Awesome that he personalized it for you Ralph. Fantastic, you must be so freeking proud. Great stuff.
Trev
well, the welsh lad got his DZUS........all 50 of them.....
these are absolutely perfect. very highly recommended.
http://www.simvionics.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=25 (http://www.simvionics.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_id=25)
i'm just a little p****d off because he hasn't etched my name on them ;D
have a great christmas chaps
regards ... ian
LOL Ian, Maybe next time :) Glad you got them.
Trev
Quote from: ian@737ng.co.uk on December 14, 2009, 11:28:38 AM
i'm just a little p****d off because he hasn't etched my name on them ;D
Ian, I think you need to go to specsavers ;)
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hahaha, just brilliant
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Well, we have a real great bunch of Nuts here!!!!!!
No place else to be.
Great.
Quote from: jackpilot on December 17, 2009, 04:03:59 AM
Well, we have a real great bunch of Nuts here!!!!!!
No place else to be.
Great.
Jack has just volunteered to have his nuts engraved!!!!! :idiot:
hahaahhaaha, stop stop, I cant take anymore of this.
;D
Might be too big...Where should I send it?......
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surface shipping for sure. No one has enough cash to ship that nut via air, hahaah.
LMFAO.. Nice Phil.. Boy you have a lot of extra time on your hands... He he he.. shouldn't you be making some gray panels or something? LMFAO
Hilarious.. and as for Jack..... I am not going there LOL
Heheheheh brilliant :)
Right chaps, its 1:49am here in the UK right now, so its 2:49 in holland, thus means our Stef should be sound asleep, i recon that gives me a 6 hour head start running from him lol.
Normally i dont show work in progress pics, but what the hell, this is revision 1 of the aft bay panels for that poor selling little plane that no one has heared off, severn three somthing or other :idiot:
For the eagle eye's amongst you you will spot many mistakes, normally take 3 attempts to get things right, if you think panel making is easy trust me your wrong, ive counted 53 errors so far but most of its things u cant see or will never notice,general fitting and alligment issues,artwork skew, laser dwell, will change the ACP panels, those are the BBJ ones and excuse the correct color WX panel in there, ive, erm..okay i admit i forgot about it, but no matter how correct it look's on the screen you go and build a set and things dont work.
But for the first attempt not bad, cant wait to see them all lit up
Enjoy chaps :)
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They still look incredible Phil. Quick question if you dont mind...
When you cut your panels do you use a ball end bit with 3D profiling to round the edges or do you sand them after the fact? I made a bunch of Dzus fasteners the other night on my cnc which turned out perfect but had to use a ball end bit to do the rounding and that took more time. Just wondering how you are achieving those edges....
Thank you,
Scott
Check ur PM bud :)
Oh NO NO NO why do you do that to us Phil :) :) :)
This is a never ending game..
Seriously:very very nice. lots of work...
Quote from: jackpilot on December 17, 2009, 08:45:30 AM
Oh NO NO NO why do you do that to us Phil :) :) :)
Sorry ;)
I dont know! I go back to work for a few weeks and yet again you have re-invented the wheel phil!!! :)
This stuff is incredible.. Phil, you have done it again.. I know I hadn;t done anything with my pedestal yet for a reason.
Great stuff.
Trev
Quote from: phil744 on December 17, 2009, 07:25:32 AM
Heheheheh brilliant :)
Right chaps, its 1:49am here in the UK right now, so its 2:49 in holland, thus means our Stef should be sound asleep, i recon that gives me a 6 hour head start running from him lol.
"hiding"
Hehehehe I gave you a few days to run Phil :-)
Good job on the panels !! They look great !
And i do LOVE the brown radar panel, since you see the colours mixed so often in the real aircraft it just makes it more real ;-)
I have a request though: Do you think you can replicate the pushbuttons/annunciators in the cargo panels ?
I looked for originals everywhere, but i just cant seem to find them :-(
Now.....start looking over your shoulder.....;-) just kidding....
Stef
Greetings from Ivalongdong NW ullan batoor :idiot:
Cheers Stef :)
Yeah i know what you mean, be honest buttons are my major sticking point on everything, well dual illuminated ones, i have 7 or so candidates, brilliant switches that do the job and almost 1:1 perfect and i can configure them to fit anywhere, the problem is each switch retails for 50-70 USD each!!!!!, if you think that sounds bad look at it from my point of view, to keep lead times reasonable i will have to hold stock, that means purchasing them in multiples of 1000PCS, i will let you do the maths, its not far from being the cost for me to go out and purchase my own tooling and make my own damn switch for half that, and i do have a mould shop, hmmmm, be assured i am working on somthing, it wont happen over night but it will happen soon enough.
These fellas you mean
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Quote from: phil744 on December 22, 2009, 11:13:15 PM
Greetings from Ivalongdong NW ullan batoor :idiot:
uhmmm where ??
QuoteYeah i know what you mean, be honest buttons are my major sticking point on everything, well dual illuminated ones, i have 7 or so candidates, brilliant switches that do the job and almost 1:1 perfect and i can configure them to fit anywhere, the problem is each switch retails for 50-70 USD each!!!!!, if you think that sounds bad look at it from my point of view,
Thats not so bad really ;-)
Quoteto keep lead times reasonable i will have to hold stock, that means purchasing them in multiples of 1000PCS, i will let you do the maths,
Now that DOES sound bad.
Quoteand i do have a mould shop, hmmmm, be assured i am working on somthing, it wont happen over night but it will happen soon enough.
not overnight ? hmmmm next week is soon enough ;-)
QuoteThese fellas you mean
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Yup, gimme gimme gimme....those are the only parts missing in my pedestal !!!
Stef
Gimmie Gimmie Never gets Stef... Santa is watching you, you know LMFAO.
I seem to recall someone needing new start switches that got destroyed at FsWeekend. Perhaps Santa will bring you a new set LOL.
Trev
Quote from: Trevor Hale on December 23, 2009, 12:21:20 AM
I seem to recall someone needing new start switches that got destroyed at FsWeekend. Perhaps Santa will bring you a new set LOL.
Trev
LOL....thanks for reminding me Trev, i just forgot about that.....
If i just know who did it (and how he did it).
The brush simply broke off of the body.
The only way i can think of someone doing that is using brute force, turning the switch without pushing it in first. That way you put all the pressure on the body via the switch shaft and all that force ends in the brush where the switch is attatched to the backpanel:
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and this is what it should look like:
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Ironically i gave away a set of startswitches half year ago to a friend who is helping me with my throttle.
Stef
The amount of brute force that would be required to break that would be insane.. Was warvet there by chance? LOL.
I don't know you would think the screw through the knob would have broken loose before that would happen. I am just amazed. do you think you will be able to fix it?
Trev
:o That's craziness.
It's amazing how much you need to over-engineer components sometimes, and even then it's often impossible to protect them absolutely. You can go a long way to doing so of course, but it'll then cost a fortune to produce :-\
Oh, and I've mentioned this in a previous thread, but this is some beautiful panel work. Seriously.
Outstanding.
Dean.
Bravo, mate. Amazing stuff. You truly are a perfectionist !!! :D
Do you plan on offering ready to plug units once buttons are done? To be honest, Buttons are my sticky points too. Heavy tactile feel, sharp glowing text, no bleed through. I have button fetish. LOL your right, panels are nothing without realistic buttons to along with it.
Honestly, Your panels are sooooooooo real, low grade home made buttons don't belong in them.
These will go perfectly with 757/767 controls we are working on.
Finally, it's time to start building my dream (767 cockpit).
All thanks to you. ;)
Ali -
Phil your panels give me the orn! I can't wait to start making some similar, I am having great success engraving and cutting out parts with the CNC machine but it's all A340 TQ parts at the moment. My first experiment with panels will be the revision of my own B737 MIP, I'm going to replace it!
Happy New Year to everybody from Aerosim Solutions!!!
Regards, Gwyn
Hey Ali,
Simple answer to your question is yes, i am working on some plug and play parts, but im the new kid on the block at all of this so it will take some serious time yet but there is somthing in the pipe line, probably start with a few of the NAV/COMM radios at first before moving onto the complex stuff like MCP/FMC but its a case of walk before i can run, firstly i must figure out some solution to those damn switches, i am pulling my hair out here over them.
Your working on the 75/76 yoke, hmmm will keep that in mind, dont forget the 75 has a different column to the 76, looking forward to seeing that :)
Cheers Dean :)
Gwyn, been secretly admiring the A340 TQ over the past few weeks, nice job there also seen the panel you made, personally i think it's spot on if you need any help u know where i am, hopefully im driving to Germany on friday to go and fetch my CNC, been a long time coming, when i do get it i should declare it as a national holiday or somthing i am like a small child on christmas eve, get that back here, set up and figure out how to use the damn thing as ive never seen one before, same with the my Die sink EDM then im going to have a proper go at all this as of now im just playing at the moment.
Well, i know its a bit late, but ive been away, but a very happy new year to you all and let the fun begin :)
Glad to hear Phil. I'm all for plug and play. :)
Yes, your right about the column difference. That is a huge part to die-cast and I don't see how most builders can afford it.
Ali