WIP Hasegawa Sepecat Jaguar Mk.1 1/72

Will be following along.  Always thought the Jaguar was a cool looking airplane.

Mike

For some reason I can not view your pictures.  I too have a fondness for Jaguar.

I can't see pics either

Me too, no pic's, but would like to see.

Last night I did a bit of decaling, painting, and scratchbuilding, but not necessarily in that order. Of interest, I added some details to the seat with a bit of sprue and heavy-duty aluminum foil:

I'd show you the photo of the painted seat, but Photobucket is giving me attitude. I painted the belts and harness then added buckles with bits of folded up foil. Some Vallejo dark green wash added shadows that no one will probably see.

Here's the cockput put together:

The last thing for the night was to address the underside of the cockpit, which doubles as the roof for the forward wheel well. It seems that there are holes in the floor where the stick and the instrument panel were attached. I filled them with some Mr. Surfacer and left it for another day to be sanded and touched up:

I'm doing the 48-hour group build this weekend, so no progress reports until next week.

Looking good there. Ive got a two-seat kit of this lying around somewhere. Will be keeping notes of your progress.

Nice start, good luck on your 48hr. build.  Looking forward to more WIP.

Toshi

Thnaks for sorting the photo's. I will be following this. I have a couple of the Hase Jag's, the ones on the standard markings.

The 48-hour group build project didn't go well for me. I had a paint disaster that precluded finishing in time. So instead, I went back to the Jaguar for a little while today.

Last we heard, there was a bit of a mess that needed some Mr. Surfacer and sanding:

I took care of that right away. After sanding a few new coats of paint, much nicer:

The cockpit then went into the forward fuselage's forward portion. It's a tight and tricky fit, and as you can see, I didn't do a great job: there's a big gap just forward of the actual cockpit.

Milliput to the rescue!

And last, but not least, some air intake "sushi" and fuselage bondage. After this, some more puttying, sanding, and the addition of the wings and tail.

Not much time at the modeling desk the last two nights. What work I did was mostly filling and smoothing seams and gaps. I'm fairly new to this and I think my skill is now hovering somewhere between not-quite-enough and overkill. Nonetheless, with each project the skills get better. Along with working the seams, I added the cockpit portion of the fuselage, the wings, and the vertical stabilizer. It now looks a lot like an actual airplane:

Tonight I plan to add the horizontal stabilizers and work on the landing gear. I cut off the forward landing gear from the sprue last night and the main piece is a minefield of delicate struts, ejection marks, and mold seams. Cleaning it up for painting is going to be a challenge.

That is starting to look like a Jaguar. Nice work Sir,

BK

A little more work the other night. I got the horizontal stabilizers on and did a bit of filing and filling.

I also started on the wheel well doors, which, as you can see, have some horribly-placed ejection marks. I'm in Mr. Surfacer hell here.