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38 minutes ago, Enzo Matrix said:

Yeh...    I still sometimes have gluey fingers.  Or spill MEK on the model!   Have a look at my thread in the F/A-18 STGB...   :wall:   

 

I've just learned how to rectify the damage not how to prevent it... :fraidnot:  

Your build thread!? I must take a look...

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I spent the summer of 1976 flight testing Jaguar handling characteristics with stores (lots and lots of stores) at BAC Warton. And on a boating holiday on Loch Ness/Loch Lochy we would see Jags streaking beneath the hilltops on low level training missions. Looking forward to seeing this come together.

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Just catching up on a few of these threads Enzo... apologies for the delay. Great progress mate and double points awarded for overlooking those canyon trenches and building this one Straight OOB

Cheers.. Dave 

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Slight variation on the theme - whilst there was a decent LMS 4 miles away when I was a kid, and the WH Smith branch also sold a few models, my local newsagent was not really into mainstream kits and just sold a few odds an ends. However I suspect that the local Chemist was a modeller as he did sell a wide range of Airfix kits and in the early days he even had some of the small (1/1200 scale?) "Eagle" warships - Battle of the River Plate etc if you are old enough to remember them. By the time I decided I might buy some, they had apparently gone bust so all I ever built was a KGV battleship.

 

 

 

Pete

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Onward!

 

The model was primed with my usual grey plastic primer from a rattle can.

 

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Then sprayed with Xtracolour XA1004.

 

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Xtracolour dries glossy and I find that it usually doesn't need any laquer to protect the surface from masking, si it was straight on with the blutak worms, tiny masking tape squares and Copydex.

 

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The Dark Green was sprayed with Xtracolour XA1001.

 

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Stickers on!    These are the original Matchbox decals.  In my concurrent A-7 build I commented on how well the Matchbox decals behaved for that kit, even though it was over thirty years old.  Well, these decals are even older.  Still went on well.

 

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All the greeblies are laid out ready for fitment.

 

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My next uodate will probably show it completed.

 

 

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A very neat build Enzo, and such speed. My Siskin is crawling by comparison. Never built the Jaguar kit, it was around when money was tight and I was very selective (ie was it cheap?) about what I bought. 

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10 hours ago, 12jaguar said:

 is the checkerboard in the right place as I've never seen one in that location before?

 

As far as I know, the squadron marking was never carried on the nose.  If this were a Jaguar build, that would be totally inaccurate.  But it's not.  It's a Matchbox kit nostalgia build. :)  I'm following the kit, regardless of whether it is accurate.

 

But I must admit, it has me itching to build a 54 Sqn Jaguar from one of the Italeri kits in The Stash...

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This one I never built but would of loved it, I got the Airfix Jag instead. The Build looks Awesome and I love the way you went with the transfers and how you used the Matchbox locations instead of where they normally go. I just might us the Decals I got in build for that authentic feel.

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Wow Enzo, Jag’s looking the business and has come alive now it’s all ‘stickered’ up. I do like the way you are honouring Matchbox’s incorrect Squadron cheques location, that’s perfect to my eye and I applaud you for sticking to your plan. 
Cheers.. Dave 

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