Biuilding your MIP is a great place to start your cockpit project . I had a good look round on the net

and found this full scale layout . I printed it off on A3 paper and taped it together. The next job was

Sticking it down to a sheet of hardboard.

This was a nice cheep way of setting up a mockup MIP . Very useful for setting up my monitor layout

The Pictures below show  the hardboard MIP .  Being a lot stronger than paper this hardboard Panel

Became my template for the final Alloy version.