shood23 Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 This will be a straight out of the box build just because I want something nice and easy to do for once. I really love the look of this old jag in castrol colours Not much more I can say really apart from this will I think be my first hasegawa car but they look like reboxed revell kits so shouldn't be too hard The box The decals look pretty nice The body is nice though a little basic I said above I wanted a straight from the box build but that's never really going to happen so I started with this And ended up with this More soon Shaun 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElectricLightAndy Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 You can never have enough Jaguars, I'm sure you will make a beautiful job of this one as per usual Andy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroRacing Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Revell reboxed a lot of Hasegawa kits. Not sure if they ever boxed this one though lol. I've always wondered whether the tamiya or hasegawa was the better kit? The Hase ones always seem to be the cheaper ones though lol. I'll watch along if that's OK Ashley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Interesting subject I really have a soft spot for the TWR Cats! Mind if I follow along? Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griffsrw Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 nice kit, tamiya kit has more details, have done both, and enjoyed them. i made the castrol jag into the 1990 imsa car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Thanks guys and ashley your right it was revell reboxing old hasegawa kits and revell for some reason never redid any of the old jags, which is a shame really as the old silk cut ones would be great to have again now. And griffsrw I have the plan to do a 1991 no.35 jaguar from the tamiya kit soon, I just need more reference and the plan on how to modify the tamiya xjr9 properly. So on to this I have painted the floor pan with green and semi gloss black The body is more or less ready for painting now, I just want to run round the panel lines to deepen them slightly as they are pretty shallow And finally for today I have airbrushed the rims and fitted the tyres More soon Shaun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted September 8, 2016 Author Share Posted September 8, 2016 So much for a quick build it's getting very close to being 2 weeks and I'm still no where near decals But with saying that I have finally managed to paint the body in vw white Clear coat soon then some decals Shaun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKER Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Love these big cats, my favourite racing cars ever Keep up the good work. Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarage Vee Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 (edited) For the 1991 car there's the chance of an interesting racing/aviation crossover. Wasn't it at Daytona that several cars carried various tributes to US units in The Gulf. The TWR cars paid homage to the RAF Jaguars. Edited September 9, 2016 by Vicarage Vee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted September 9, 2016 Author Share Posted September 9, 2016 Thanks guys and I have been looking through the history of the jag chassis numbers online to check the cross over of imsa and lemans and there was something about that in the blurb for the later cars. Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celt Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Love Jaguars. :popcorn: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 (edited) So much for a quick build it's getting very close to being 2 weeks and I'm still no where near decals Two weeks??? I only wished I was able to make that much progress in that amount of time. I'd only be at about the 5-10% completed line. Lookin good by the way. Edited September 13, 2016 by mustang1989 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Moon Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Nice start! I just went over to my LHS and bought the re-release of Hasegawa's XJR-8 LM and it had the actual Silk Cut decals included! Still like the Castrol scheme better though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroRacing Posted September 13, 2016 Share Posted September 13, 2016 Nice start! I just went over to my LHS and bought the re-release of Hasegawa's XJR-8 LM and it had the actual Silk Cut decals included! Still like the Castrol scheme better though. I now regret not picking the one I saw at a show at the weekend up Oh well. There's always the next show lol Ashley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted September 20, 2016 Author Share Posted September 20, 2016 Thanks for the kind words guys I would pick one up again if I saw one but only for making a different car you will know very soon as to why. So finally I have started working on this again by micro meshing the body before decals so I have a nice smooth surface to work with And finally a quick mock up with the chassis and wheels So why would I not like to build this exact car again and why have I got so little to show for in pictures, the hasegawa decals are crap they are very thin and break ridiculously easy. With that I have only managed to get 2 decals on with 1 being the world's biggest pain in the bottom. More soon Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetroRacing Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 (edited) Ahh I see the dreaded Hase hit and miss decals have struck again. I would ask if these are before or after the change to Cartograf ones but I've had issues with both in the past. I hope your situation is salvageable. Ashley Edited September 21, 2016 by MetroRacing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 Ashley you are right about the decals with hasegawa kits, I made the lotus 79 they did a couple of years ago and they were great on that even on some of the mid 00s rally cars they made were really good but on this they are just more hassle than its worth. After I did around 5 decals last night and thus morning I put some decal liquid on the rest just to try and salvage them. Here's how bad they have gone so far The 2 green areas on the front ripped in a couple of places the worst being just in front of where the windscreen will go and to top it off I though I may be able to hide most of the bad bits with the castrol logo but yep you guessed it that ripped too The side was both good and bad all in 1 decal, most of it sat down really nice but near the front it ripped on a really small raised bit before I could get near it with microsol So much for a nice an easy build More to come soon, hopefully more positive than negative though Shaun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shood23 Posted September 24, 2016 Author Share Posted September 24, 2016 Good news!!! I have made in roads with the decals, if you have read above you will know I had massive problems with the decals breaking up but have found a solution without pulling all my hair out or using every swear word imaginable. I need to soak them for longer (around 60 seconds) in pretty warm water, when I say warm I mean bath temperature hot not hour old tea hot, and this has seemed to keep most intact with no real downside. Here's the car now. Only the small logos along the green aras are needed now. Something funny I did notice only after I applied the first of the decals, the rear wing plane decals are the reverse colours. The top plane should be red and main green but the decals are the opposite so a day or 2 is now needed to get the wing bits painted. More soon Shaun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Moon Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 Looking sharp! I'm glad you pressed on with the fiddly decals, it's looking well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 That's looking really nice starting to look like a Jaguar now! Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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