A bit more progress over the past few days (worked on a bathroom reno Friday night and Saturday). Thursday night, installed the doors on the various storage cabinets. Saturday night, got the "console" installed. Nothing fancy, just a piece of plywood with a box on the back and a door...
Yesterday, installed/wired the transducer and got my Raymarine Dragonfly installed, got the switches into the console switch panel, and ran the wiring for the trim (and installed the buttons).
The switch panel itself is a piece of clear acrylic. Drilled all of the attachment holes, switch holes, then primed. Painted it black, once that dried I applied switch labels (round plastic, white text on black background - bought for cheap on eBay). Sprayed it with clear to seal in the decals. Next day, a strip of masking tape to cover decals, sprayed the rest with the same graphite metallic as the other dash panel. Switches are just SPST toggles with waterproof rubber covers.
A spacer (3/8" plywood) between the console and the acrylic panel gave me a place to put a short LED strip for some "bling". I'll probably never actually use the LED's, but they look cool... or something like that.
Also installed the new alternator.