Damien's other other Jag - GR.1 XW563, Spirit of Coltishall Options

[DamienB]

Bit frustrated with progress on my other two Jags as they're at fiddly detailing stages... so I've started another

This one, however, is gonna be quick!

It's the Airfix 1/72 GR.3 kit, which I was never intending to get but the other half bought me it for Xmas. I didn't like the thought of the amount of rescribing and detailing it would need to get it to look good, so this one is earmarked to be the Coltishall gate guardian, XW563. This instantly means I don't have to bother with undercarriage or cockpit (as the canopy is painted black) so I've been able to throw together 90% of the kit in one go:



The major assemblies went together fairly easily. Cut off the nose locating pin as it wasn't helping alignment; similarly the panel under the engine area had the pins cut off before putting it in place. Cut out and backed the intake on the spine with plastic card. Gear & airbrake doors glued on in the closed positions and all raised detail sanded off. There are numerous areas needing filler and more sanding - the windscreen & canopy is a poor fit in particular, and the underside has various sink marks. In addition:

1 - intake relief doors closed off
2 - jet pipes drilled out to give them a few more mm of depth
3 - the Phimat pod needed some work, the integral pylon was all wrong so it's been cut down to shape and the flatter bit between it and the wing pylon has been added from plastic card