This is gonna be my first post on these forums. Been watching this thread for a couple of weeks and this comment / question made me want to finally post
First off to ThereIs0nly0ne I love your work so far on this project. I have seen your racing cockpit before, bit of a race sim guy here myself and loved that work as well. Cannot wait to see the finished project, I am sure it will be excellent.
Now to respond to the quoted question. This thing is gonna weigh a tonne when it's finished, MDF board is stupidly heavy. I have worked with this stuff in the past and I personally despise it with all the hate I can muster but it does have it's advantages such as being very easy to sand and finishes up very nicely. I much prefer to work with real wood.
While I would love to built a sim cockpit at some point I am going to go the route of an adjustable desk add on for my X55 which I am hoping to have done this weekend. The desk is already built, it's a custom built oak desk me and my dad built earlier this year. I will post a couple of pics when the add on is done. Nothing anywhere near as elaborate or awesome as this project but very functional and clean.
Welcome Lordmonkus and thanks for the comments and pleased to see a fellow sim-racer here
I'll look forward to seeing your desk project when you post it! I like functional and clean