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Top work indeed. Very well done. Love the shots from behind, narrow hipped and flaps down, looks proper naughty

Oops, double post stupidity, apologies

A quick measure up of the new Airfix and old Aifix/Heller shows that the outer pylons from both are pretty much on the money. The old inners however are way out by a scale 0.5m in length and about 0.15m in height, whereas the new Airfix inners are, unsurprisingly, very close to the above drawings. The old Airfix tandem bomb rack is spot on in length, but needs to be 1mm taller to be about right. Many thanks @canberra kid

Annoyingly the above look very much like the original Airfix/Heller pylons might be closer than I first thought. On the plus side - my port tank is half hanging off, so could be an excuse to change the pylons over....

Whilst building the KH Jag I looked into replacing the pylons with those from the Airfix/Heller plastic and noticed that the inner pylon looked a bit on the small side vs photos of the real thing. Initially it was suspected that Airfix/Heller had got the inner and outer muddled up, but even then, one does look rather anemic, although better (I think) when swapped around. As I was building a recce (II)AC aircraft I simply used the Airfix/Heller outer pylons as inners with tanks and didn't fit any outer wing pylons. Job done. After being so used to seeing the older models pylons, the new Airfix ones look huge to me, but they should be spot on as they come from a laser scan of the real deal. Assuming they didn't mix the pylons up on the real jet... Basically - the Heller/Airfix early plastic is a bit off. But they did include the tandem rail.... mutter mutter.... Re the French pylons - they had at least 2 different outer pylons for lighter or heavier work, as said there was a different inner for the AS30 mounting and another with some form of laser targeting sensor built in (STB side only iirc), and the centre pylon - there were at least 2 versions of that (a third for the Indian Sea Eagle carriage). RAF Jags however only had a single type of pylons on all 5 hardpoints, no optional stuff.

Interesting re the nose length differences. I did think the Airfix box art looked a bit long n pointy, but didn't think any more of it as it is just box art... In the interests of avoiding doing anything I should be on a lazy Sunday I got my measuring pliers out and found these numbers: New Airfix pointy nose = 28.4mm Heller A model pointy nose = 21.6mm KH A model pointy nose = 23.5mm Resin Agave fat n pointy nose = 25.4mm All measured from ~1mm in front of the access panel where they join. Bit tricky with th KH as it's one piece with the fuselage, but it's nay far off. Agreed re the Heller nose looking most convincing, similarly so with the KH but we don't really trust that very much. Absolutely no idea how much use any of that is. Just to be clear though - The early, pointy RAF and the French A model should share the same nose? We're sure? I'm pretty sure. Looks like Airfix may have dropped the pointy ball if I'm correct.

Make that 3.5 what with the 2 seat Omani refueling probe. Poor Airfix. What have they got themselves into?

Well, if nothing else, we seem to be narrowing down the greens. I consider this to be progress And nevermind the Agave nose, we need a DARIN III saw-off-glue-on option 😉

I see my work here is done Careful with the camo, I think the F1s and Kfirs at least varied a bit. Not that Ive looked into it at all. Not even checked if Python IV missiles got lobbed on overwing rails. Nope. Not me. As a side note - I found a pic today of an all grey Jag with all green pylons, one all green tank and one grey n green tank. Stick that lot in yer pipe!!

Just wondering if any of you folk have used Paveway Models before? https://pavewaymodels.com/ The bits don't look too shabby at all, prices seem decent and international postage even comes in at US$10 to the UK from Chile... is there a catch somewhere?

No worries, just checking as they're spare. No shortage of Jags here, I must have a dozen or so with all manner of marking and boomy options. Might use the Airfix new box for that tasty green Ecuadorian piece up there as the FAE did some interesting mods to them too.

If you're serious then I have at least the French pylons spare from the KH, pretty sure theres some ECM pod/s and I should have a correct French style tank from maybe the Heller kit too, quite possibly more. PM me if you dare....

@luis pacheco Luis - Do you know what the two greens are on the first FAE Jaguar on that sheet, please? The internet seems to be a bit unsure. Best I have found (I think) so far are: FS34258 for the lighter green FS34086 for the darker green And maybe FS36622 for the light grey underside?

I was on that track too. But it was "Resistance is useless" from said vile creature. I had to look it up, mind. No idea what the trekkie spandex lot are on about, theyre giving me pains in the diodes down my left side.

It's only different muzzle shrouds, longer barrels, drill a few holes and file some lumps off 🤷‍♂️ Point taken about people complaining though