Hasegawa 1/72 Sepecat Jaguar GR1

[Jim R]

Sounds like this kit has good and bad points. You've made good progress and in it's sea grey coat it looks great.

[adt70hk]

Coming on nicely Jo.

[Geoffers]

Just catching up, nice job Joe :thumb2:

Geoff.

[papa 695]

Looking good Joe.

[flyjoe180]

The Jaguar has the main camouflage scheme on now. Next up are some black areas and then I'll deal with metallic paints for the exhausts and heat shields.



I've noticed that Jaguars were hardly seen without wing drop tanks. The kits comes with exceedingly average weapons and no tanks. I sourced these from an Italeri Tornado kit, and they are the correct 1,200 litre tanks for the Jaguar. So the load out will be clean except for the tanks. I've had to think about how to fix them to the inner pylons, as they had a slot system for the original kit. I sanded the old paint off them, filled the slots, drilled a hole in each pylon and tank, and inserted a thin pin made from sprue. Should work! Some grey to go on the tanks, but they're looking okay so far in green

[papa 695]

Looking very good Joe, and a nice fix with the drop tanks.

[colin m]

Splendid work Joe. Like Tony says, we all love a Jaguar.

[flyjoe180]

The exhaust areas and nozzles are drying and I'm almost ready for some minor paint work and then a gloss varnish. In the meantime here are the tanks with the holes drilled into the pylons. Tight fit, so there won't be any issues with connecting them later. The apparent paint blemishes are fresh touch-ups still drying.

I need to think about how I will simulate the airbrake 'holes'. Maybe drill dents and fill them with a black wash/paint? Or use black painted decal paper? They were probably the worst parts of the kit with raised detail which I sanded down as they looked absolute pants. The holes are small ovals in shape, as seen here on the original beast:


Thoughts/ideas anyone?

[Guest]

Drill holes through them at an angle? Tricky to get right, though …

[Geoffers]

Looks great so far Joe :thumb2:

Can’t really think of an elegant solution for the air brakes.

Maybe try the decal option first as that would be the easiest to reverse if it doesn’t look right :thinking:

Geoff.

[flyjoe180]

Drill holes through them at an angle? Tricky to get right, though …

Thanks Jakko, I think holes would have been better but I should have drilled before fitting them to the airframe...

Looks great so far Joe :thumb2:

Can’t really think of an elegant solution for the air brakes.

Maybe try the decal option first as that would be the easiest to reverse if it doesn’t look right :thinking:

Geoff.

I'm inclined to agree Geoff, thanks for replying with your thoughts on this.

[stillp]

Pull the bristles from an old paintbrush, crush the ferrule slightly to make it oval, then heat it enough to melt plastic and use it as a punch to make the holes?

Pete

[rickoshea52]

Wraparound camouflage is tricky to get right, especially on 1/72 subjects - well done.
I’d drill the airbrake lightening holes.

[Waspie]

Drill holes through them at an angle? Tricky to get right, though …

That was my first thought.

[Waspie]

Pull the bristles from an old paintbrush, crush the ferrule slightly to make it oval, then heat it enough to melt plastic and use it as a punch to make the holes?

Pete

In my youf!!!! I used to have a kilt pin for this type of thing!! (I used it to represent holes from incoming rounds). Heat up the kilt pin and poke it through the plastic!!! It would have been my second option after writing off drilling!!