A pair of Coventry cats

[johnlambert]

A lot of paint has been thrown about since the last update.

 

The green car has had a top coat, which you see here having been rubbed down.  I've also placed the interior to give a sense of the final colour scheme.

 

Close-up on the interior.  I'm glad I applied the wash, it just adds a bit more depth to the upholstery than just painting it one colour.

 

Unfortunately rubbing down has gone through to primer in a few places.  So I'll clean it up, give it a further rub down and apply some more paint (not necessarily today).

 

The blue, standard car had its first coats of paint today.  It'll be a few days before I rub it down and give it another coat.

 

Close-up on the blue interior.  Despite choosing this colour scheme because I liked it on a full-size car, I wasn't entirely sure when I was looking at the separate elements, but seeing them all together I'm happy that they work.

[bigbadbadge]

The interiors do look great in the painted bodies.  The green looks lovely, they both do, shame it rubbed through to the primer, but is going to look awesome when redone

Chris

[johnlambert]

14 minutes ago, bigbadbadge said:

The interiors do look great in the painted bodies.  The green looks lovely, they both do, shame it rubbed through to the primer, but is going to look awesome when redone

Chris

Yeah, the Tamiya British Green is a lovely colour.  It didn't seem to go on as nicely as the Italian Red I used on my Airfix Triumph Herald, but I don't know if the weather was too warm on the day I sprayed the green (even though I sprayed early in the morning it was still about 25 degrees!

[Spiny]

Looks as though you've made some good progress on these, shame you hit primer but nothing you won't recover I'm sure.

 

In terms of spraying temperature, I've not had any problems at 25 degrees, but usually try to make that my upper limit if I can (have got away with 27 degrees before but prefer not to tempt fate).

[johnlambert]

Not much progress but I've managed to move this on a little.

 

Interior and dashboard are pretty much complete.  The body is just resting in place to give an idea of the final look.

 

The decals for the gauges went on really well, I was worried that they might disintegrate given they are pretty old.  As standard the gear lever and horn button are chrome plated, these were stripped and re-painted.  I really need to sort out the paint on the body.

[keefr22]

1 hour ago, johnlambert said:

 to give an idea of the final look.

 

 

Which I think is going to be very nice indeed!

 

Keith

[bigbadbadge]

It does look good, it's  a nice colour, I am biased though as it's similar to my Fastback. 🙂

Dash looks wonderful with the gauge decals in place.

Great work 

Chris

[Marco F.]

Not much progress...🤔but a nice progress 

Looks real good 

 

Marco F 

[johnlambert]

Since the Ford Mustang group build is over I decided to have another look at these models.

 

Pretty much the same old story, more paint added, tried smoothing and getting burn through.

 

It comes up to a lovely shine but the car is such a complicated shape that it's hard to get it painted evenly and smoothed down again.

[rob Lyttle]

Afraid I missed this entirely earlier in the year, but I'll follow along from here, John! 

[Alan R]

Nice to see these two back on the bench, John.

 

Most Jags are so elegant, these especially.

 

Cheers,

Alan.

[Spiny]

Good to see someone else getting back in the Jag habit after that Mustangy distraction.

 

I feel your pain on the burn through, it's something I think all of my models (except oddly that Mustang) have suffered to some degree ot other. It's got to the stage where I deliberately stop a bit early with the Micromesh, then go lightly with the Coarse polish and finally the finer compounds. A lot more polishing, but less chance (although not no chance) of the dreaded burn through.

[Kitkent]

I have exactly the same problem on a resin D type Jag,it must be cars that are sprayed in BRG.........

Chris.

[johnlambert]

On 27/10/2021 at 09:10, Kitkent said:

I have exactly the same problem on a resin D type Jag,it must be cars that are sprayed in BRG.........

Chris.

Yes, I'm beginning to think that BRG is unlucky.

 

Not looking too bad, as sprayed, having been left a few days to cure.

 

Other side.

 

After a bit of a polish.

 

Despite being gentle, even fine compound was too much here.

 

Oh and the light blue one hasn't been  forgotten.  It's been rubbed down ready for some more blue paint.

[Vesa Jussila]

@johnlambert Late in this party, but project looks nice and I hope you will finally manage get green paint to work. Nice work so far.

[bigbadbadge]

Good to see these ones back on the go. Hope you can get the paint sorted okay.

Chris

[Anteater]

I had awful trouble with Halfords Rover Brooklands Green, but I think you're using Tamiya BRG so my comment is of no relevance. 

[johnlambert]

Painting continues to throw up challenges.

 

This is the green Jaguar.

 

It's not perfect but I think it'll do.

 

The blue one looks OK from here.

 

Alas, when I'd painted the body I managed to slip and drop the plastic cover that I use to keep dust off while the paint was drying.

 

That's not good.

 

Rather than spray the whole thing I decided to mask up and just paint the boot lid.

[Toftdale]

Good luck with the touch up, it a real shame as it looking really good.  Its not going to make you feel better, but I've definitely done similar things.  Andy.  PS the blue really suits the car

[keefr22]

I think we've all been there, done that at some point John - good luck with the touch up spray job, I'm sure she'll look as good as new after it....

 

Apologies if I can't see for looking as I went back through the thread, but what paint is that lovely light blue?

 

Keith 

[johnlambert]

7 hours ago, keefr22 said:

I think we've all been there, done that at some point John - good luck with the touch up spray job, I'm sure she'll look as good as new after it....

 

Apologies if I can't see for looking as I went back through the thread, but what paint is that lovely light blue?

 

Keith 

Thanks Keith, I can't remember if I said but the paint is Ford Bermuda/Light Blue from a Halfords spray can.  It looks to me like a fairly good match for the light blue of a Jaguar XK120 I saw in a magazine article, it's also a reasonable match for the light blue in the Gulf racing colours.

[keefr22]

Cheers John, I think I actually have a can of that in the garage. 

 

Keith

[Vesa Jussila]

John I know you have skills to fix this.  So this will end well.

[johnlambert]

Today was a day for messing around with wheels.  The plan for the green XK was a sort of resto-mod look and I purchased some K&R Replicas Dunlop wheels which are designed to sit on solid brass axles, so some adaptation is required to fit them to the Revell kit plastic axles.  The logical solution (to me, at least) is to drill out the plastic axles to accommodate pieces of brass rod on which the wheels will mount.

 

To provide a solid support I decided to drill through the wheel centre to give plenty of depth for eventually gluing the wheel to the brass axle.  The knock-off spinners will hide the hole on the finished model, although I actually quite like the look without the spinner.

 

The holes were drilled by eye but at least the axle ends had a flat-ish surface to help find more or less the centre.

 

Checking for clearance, the wheels are quite tight to the body.

 

Another view showing how tight it is.  The axle ends will be filed down to move the wheels slightly further in to the body.

 

At the front it is a similar story, some material will need removing to give a bit more clearance.

 

And after a bit of filing, with the brass axles cut down it seems to give the desired result.  When I tested it on a flat surface it even seemed to sit with all four tyres on the ground.  Seeing it like this makes me think that it might turn out as a half decent model.

[Anteater]

Respraying the bootlid now is better than if you'd dropped glue on it later on.

 

Nice Dunlop wheels btw.