UPDATE: Making some headway with work in progress picture on X-wing (within cockpit). Note: Pilot is a proxy model with only proxy textures (hence washed out - apologies).
I made a better composition now (at least I think ;-) and have all panels textured (with animations, coming soon as I still need to render) as well as PBR materials for the physical panels. Standard Cycles materials being too smooth I went to SP PBR based shading which worked quite well, only some symmetry issues on mirrored dirt and dust :-).
I will delete the other gallery image as soon as CGcookie lets me do it to avoid spam with same visual.
Background is from Gleb and Andy Space VFX course which is fantastic, so check that out.
